Example sentences of "for a [noun] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jennings died as the result of a fall on the Greek island of Poros , 24 September 1950 , choosing locations for a film for the European Economic Commission . |
| 2 | Travel — Holidays On The Move : How a tenderfoot fell for a cowboy On a blazing saddle , Angela Humphery treks 100 miles through the Sierra Nevada |
| 3 | Its prime aim was to consolidate its own power , but it also hoped to centralise and unify the nation and attain to Western standards required for a revision of the unequal treaties . |
| 4 | Thus the need for a revision of the scientific emphasis : " the activities of the English department … make of it … a university in miniature , a school not of one but many sciences " . |
| 5 | Not only did the sturdy lock crown a storming performance by bullocking over for a try in the final minute , he undoubtedly played himself into a Lions place . |
| 6 | At the other end Tyrone Howe who saw very little of the ball during the match went over for a try in the left corner , following a fine break from Andrew Gallagher . |
| 7 | If the conveyancer for the lessor refuses to delete it , or if you act for a purchase of an existing lease that includes such a provision , you should always explain to your client the nature of the provision , its unusual nature and its disadvantages ( putting off a subsequent prospective buyer or mortgagee , delay and expense in taking up references and obtaining the licence ) . |
| 8 | His eyes flickered for a second to the rear view mirror . |
| 9 | You are now equipped to play the game : what is the ideal position for each of these machines allowing for you , the craftsman , to work around them and allowing for a board of a chosen dimension to go across that production set-up ? |
| 10 | It again begins with strong positions on the need for government action to ‘ smash Sinn Fein' , for a rejection of the Anglo-Irish ‘ sell out ’ , and an end to cross-border collaboration . |
| 11 | He waited for a fortnight after the heavy snowfall of late November and still nothing appeared to have been said with regard to Sarah 's move to Leeds . |
| 12 | However , reports on May 22 indicated that the strike was only patchily supported , with as few as 1,500 people gathering for a rally outside the Supreme Soviet building . |
| 13 | This would seem to preclude any direction being given to a taxing master other than for a taxation on a standard basis or an indemnity basis . |
| 14 | We will not include the value of any message or information , but we will give sympathetic consideration to your request for a refund of the reasonable costs you have had in making enquiries about a lost or damaged postal packet . |
| 15 | These forces combined to produce considerable pressures for a spreading of the national language and culture . |
| 16 | Thus the two powers became locked in a struggle for a citadel of no military value to either . |
| 17 | The concrete experiences of women ( and men ) are here used as the basis for a critique of a particular conception of the |
| 18 | I have been listening to ‘ Shepherd Moons ’ for three days straight , packing for a bunk to the Islamic world and every moment of departure in my entire life has come tumbling out of my memory , often erupting in tears . |
| 19 | From the fading elegance of tree-lined Wood Lane to the Wharf car park is no more than 500 yards for a purposeful crow , but for a motorist on the one-way system it is the better part of a mile . |
| 20 | Such has been the pace of South Africa 's re-entry into the world arena that Rhodes and his team mates have had little time to be overawed by the situation , which for a youngster from a small town in Natal is quite remarkable . |
| 21 | However , during a break in filming The Big Sleep I did join him and Robert Mitchum for a drink at a nearby pub . |
| 22 | ‘ Not even for a drink in the social club ? ’ |
| 23 | Nails took his usual Ford Escort that night from the parking lot outside the gasworks where the night shift was working , the one he had a key for , and he and Gary went for a drive round the back streets where they would n't meet a patrol car , out into the country for ten miles or so and back again . |
| 24 | United States President Bush stressed in a major televised speech to a joint session of Congress on March 6 that he regarded the drive for a settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict as one of his administration 's top priorities in the post-Gulf War period . |
| 25 | THE ISRAELI cabinet is being called this week to debate for the first time proposals made by Egypt for advancing the search for a settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict . |
| 26 | Soviet and US experts , whose presence was thought to give momentum to the talks , were on hand to offer " technical " advice on the practicalities of a ceasefire [ for March agreement by the protagonists ' principal backers to work for a settlement to the civil war see p. 37365 ] . |
| 27 | Sitthi explained that the ASEAN countries had instructed him to communicate these principles for a settlement to the Soviet leadership . |
| 28 | For a metal in an octahedral array of six identical ligands , the d orbitals split into a lower set of three with symmetry t 2g and an upper set of two with symmetry e g . |
| 29 | That would be big enough to relocate the Scottish Office from New St Andrew 's House , or for a headquarters for an international company , he said . |
| 30 | Mr Petrakov is in an understandable hurry , but his idea for a short-cut to a convertible currency could bring a wild ride . |