Example sentences of "of an [adj] [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Melissa had wished to create the character of an elderly Frenchwoman for one of her novels , she would surely have chosen Antoinette Gebrec as her model . |
| 2 | In the 1850s a new electoral system with a complex arrangement for the election of an electoral college for each social class further downgraded the possibility of political intervention for the Poles . |
| 3 | DW/LD retains the right to require payment of an additional fee for such up-dates . |
| 4 | These are issues which have been the subject of research and discussion in the last two decades reflecting the growing awareness of the existence of an unmet need for legal assistance with problems and the development of law centres and other agencies to meet it . |
| 5 | Role-playing was crucial to preserve what is often called tatemae , defined by one author as ‘ the presentation of an appropriate face for any particular situation ’ . |
| 6 | Nevertheless Edwards , who had failed to win re-election in 1987 because of an unsavoury reputation for alleged corruption as a three-term governor , won the election with 61 per cent of the vote . |
| 7 | Akram Khan-Cheema , speaking for the Directorate of Educational Services , City of Bradford Metropolitan Council , spoke of an increasing workload for those teachers who were engaged in promoting community languages against a background of confusion regarding strategies , objectives and methods . |
| 8 | SCO and Pegasus are hoping to take advantage of an increased demand for computer-based accounting solutions expected when new accountancy regulations come into force in the UK next year , which will make it very difficult , the two claim , for companies to perform accounting tasks , like payroll , without a computer . |
| 9 | The Report stressed the need for a nationally recognized form of certification and recommended the establishment of an autonomous body for vocational courses in art and design whose validating functions should resemble those of TEC and BEC , thereby enabling it where necessary to devise suitable courses as well as receiving submissions from colleges . |
| 10 | True democrats will easily be persuaded that in the absence of an absolute majority for either of the two big parties the pivotal role of a third party is inevitable and salutary . |
| 11 | The government 's refusal to broaden the franchise for municipal councils — in most cities less than 1 per cent of the population had the vote — deprived liberals of an alternative forum for mass political activity . |
| 12 | Subsequent discrimination training thus occurs between the compound of A and its associate X and of B and its associate Y. If the events used as X and Y differ from each other more than do A and B ( see Fig. 5.10(b) ) then it might be supposed that the compounds would be discriminated more readily than would an untrained A and B. Certainly most proponents of an associative account for acquired distinctiveness effects have taken their analysis no further , implying that the phenomenon follows directly from what has just been said . |
| 13 | More specifically , the Colleges have taken the lead role in the provision of an essential qualification for Roman Catholic teachers , the Catholic Certificate of Religious Education . |
| 14 | the specification of an objective function for optimal policy calculations ; |
| 15 | From this point of view , the capacity of an electronic computer for tireless number-crunching should have something to offer . |
| 16 | Despite these neuroses he was also possessed of an aggressive resolve for social success coupled with an interest in ( but not a taste for ) the psychologically abnormal . |
| 17 | Having laid the groundwork of his interest , the politician had to be ready when election time rolled around again , and at that point an incumbent who could re-apply to constituents whom he had frequent occasion to meet , and ask them for a continuation of their friendship , without suggesting for a moment that any of them had a duty to support him in recognition of an implied bargain for past favours , was in a far stronger position than a man whose only contacts with his constituents took the form of patronage letters . |
| 18 | Their intention was to improve national literacy and technical skills : the provision of an educational ladder for brighter working-class children would increase the pool of highly-skilled manpower . |
| 19 | For Warr , however , the issue is historical as well as moral , the reflection of an age-long struggle for rational laws rooted in ‘ a spirit of understanding big with freedom and having a single respect to people 's rights ’ . |
| 20 | WITH interest rates going through the roof the offer of an interest-free loan for two years for buyers of new cars should be investigated . |
| 21 | the establishment of an advisory council for Legal Services to keep under review the provision of all forms of legal services ; |