Example sentences of "of an [adj] [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government also supported Soviet proposals for the creation of an eastern European replacement for the Warsaw Pact . |
| 2 | He advocated the use of an industrial measuring projector for this purpose . |
| 3 | In spite of an apparent natural distaste for many of the customs and superstitions of peasant society the most important discovery was of their revolutionary potential . |
| 4 | The absence of an effective internal mechanism for regulating the conduct of management means , of course , that the inability , if such it be , of the shareholders to exercise effective control is of increased significance . |
| 5 | It is the question of how this transition takes place that is holding up the calling of an extraordinary general meeting for the purposes of formalising the arrangement . |
| 6 | Could you take a part which would involve the wearing of an acid-yellow loose négligée for the most part of the proceedings ? |
| 7 | The programme is time-tabled over three years , with the option of an accelerated 2-year programme for those who are able to devote more time to their studies . |
| 8 | It is not wise to write , as some have done , of an expanding middle-class market for an ever-widening range of manufactured goods , for " middle-class " is a nineteenth-century usage and too restrictive for the eighteenth century . |
| 9 | One thing in particular that frightens the business community is the possibility of an elected regional assembly for the north-west , with powers to tax , which would inevitably be dominated by the cities of Liverpool and Manchester , to the detriment of everyone else in the area . |
| 10 | But precisely because Edward I could not take their consent for granted and in his later years preferred to tap the clergy 's wealth instead by mandatory papal levies , the survival and role of an independent clerical body for the gathering of taxation remained uncertain at his death . |
| 11 | The only decoration on the walls of my new home consisted of an old half-used calendar for 1935 . |
| 12 | Figure 3.1 shows a representation of an ordered linked list for the small lexicon cat , catch , cot , cots , do , dog , dogged , doggy . |
| 13 | Earlier that season Stewart had turned down the chance of an amateur international cap for England against Wales in order to play for Casuals against Wimbledon . |