Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] a [noun] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The June conference , meanwhile , had been called by the CPSU central committee in March as a forum for debate on the need for a Russian CP by the 2,744 delegates from the Russian Federation to the forthcoming CPSU congress . |
| 2 | They forget that we paid the higher price for the partition of Germany as a precondition for peace in Europe . |
| 3 | Talking as a fan myself I prefer the Oval to Windsor as a venue for atmosphere and pitch quality . |
| 4 | The strategic significance of Calais was obvious , and its possession would mean that Edward no longer had to rely on Flanders as a bridgehead for invasion . |
| 5 | Was n't there three thousand men in Tipperary last Saturday in a riot for work , outside this very building . |
| 6 | Involving airborne and seaborne troops , warships and fighter-planes and bombers , the US manoeuvres were seen by Cuba as a rehearsal for invasion , but described by the US Defence Department as routine . |
| 7 | At the tract 's beginning , Eudoxus inquires how it is with the advantages of Ireland as a place for agriculture — a key aspect for establishing civility — that it remains savage . |
| 8 | The hon. Member for Glasgow , Garscadden ( Mr. Dewar ) described our valuation arrangements for Scotland as a recipe for disaster . |
| 9 | Is not that new manufacturing capacity brought here by the Government 's successes in promoting Britain and the north of England as a location for manufacturing ? |
| 10 | It became one of his regular haunts , as did the Gargoyle , the club founded in the 1920s by David Tennant and run by him and Hermione Baddeley as a meeting-place for society and the arts . |
| 11 | They now provided Sukarno with a vehicle for polemic and controversy which enabled him to regain a place in the public eye . |
| 12 | I wrapped up a bottle of Grand Moulas in a newspaper for safety , put it in one of the panniers and went on my way . |
| 13 | Hewlett-Packard Co is expected to take a 20% stake in the IBM Corp-Apple Computer Inc Taligent joint venture to seal a deal under which it is working with IBM on a standard for desktop Unix using IBM 's Common User Access specification and dubbed COSI , or Common Operating System Interface . |
| 14 | Subsequent work in America included Goneril in King Lear , Lady Sneerwell in A School For Scandal and Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit . |
| 15 | Pople followed up this publication with two papers on the statistical mechanics of assemblies of axially symmetric molecules ; interpretations of electron interactions in unsaturated hydrocarbons ; collaboration ( with Christopher Longuet Higgins ) on the spectra of aromatic molecules on solvent spectral shifts ; the theory of the Renner effect ( Strong coupling between electronic and vibrational modes in a molecule leading to a breakdown of a Born-Oppenheimer approximation — it became a standard work ) ; and his recognition of the value of NMR as a tool for chemistry is revealed in the early issues of Molecular Physics . |
| 16 | Defries , who had given up threatening Daak with a court-martial for assault , voiced the same fear . |
| 17 | Those are astonishingly good figures which show the attraction of Britain as a location for investment . |
| 18 | What had started with Jones as a search for muon catalysed fusion , then theory on piezonuclear fusion in his paper with van Sieclen and with Palmer as a puzzle about the gases emitting from volcanoes , was now turning into a search for entirely new routes to fusion . |
| 19 | The Ridley Report : Unique event back on calmer waters Ian Ridley on a triumph for tradition after last year 's acrimony between two old heavyweights |
| 20 | As recently as 1922 Dr Joan Evans noted that ‘ Amber necklaces may still be sold in the chemists ’ shops of Mayfair as a cure for croup , asthma and whooping cough . ’ |
| 21 | A first call for proposals may be made in April with a deadline for submission around the end of May . |
| 22 | ‘ We 're not out to position Windows NT as a replacement for Unix . ’ |
| 23 | Now , however , the assessment provisions of the 1988 Act ( turned by TGAT into a model for curriculum construction ) actually demand that it takes place . |