Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is one of the remarkable features of the Bible that it contains enough to occupy the greatest intellects for a lifetime , and yet the simplest soul can read and understand , and in reading with an obedient heart find God himself . |
| 2 | They seem likely to continue to do so even after the reserve policy has been replaced by an interim policy of providing maintained protection for a list of specific products with the potential to compete with foreign products . |
| 3 | But I thought the main concern would be finding the right building for a museum of this type , and that there would be no need to buy any pictures for it . |
| 4 | Movements for industrial democracy have been similarly discouraged , and even socialist governments , whether reformist or revolutionary , have shown little enthusiasm for a devolution of their powers which would permit a greater involvement of ordinary people in the direction of their everyday economic activities . |
| 5 | You know , I think erm rather than they paying all that money for a caravan . |
| 6 | The council hopes the publicity will help its application for European funding for a project on the river . |
| 7 | Just hours after Mercury cut phone bills for domestic and small business customers , BT declared a freeze on the cost of all UK and international direct-dialled calls for a year . |
| 8 | There are some other restrictions affecting the choice of courses : the normal curriculum for a student registered for the M.Sc. |
| 9 | Are there staff identified with specific responsibility for a student welfare service ? |
| 10 | The collapse of the shogunate and the restoration of the Meiji throne was but one effect , from which a myriad of others flowed : the revival of Japanese nationalism and her imperial designs , the invasion of China , the florid plans for a Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere , the bombast and cruelty of the Pacific War , the creation in America of the atomic bomb , its eventual use over the two great cities of Kyushu , and Japan 's consequent defeat , post-war disgrace , ruin and decay . |
| 11 | Balding 's Beech Road appears to be on the right trail for a Champion double . |
| 12 | However , when the USSR Supreme Soviet convened for its third session on Feb. 14 , the Presidium unexpectedly failed to obtain the necessary two-thirds majority for a proposal to call the Congress of People 's Deputies into emergency session by the end of February to make the necessary constitutional changes . |
| 13 | IN framing controversial proposals for a US energy tax , President Clinton gave a new lease of life to the British thermal unit , which the UK has abandoned in favour the joule based on the metric standards adopted in Europe . |
| 14 | He signed for Palace on 8 March 1962 and progressed through the Junior ranks for a couple of seasons . |
| 15 | Whatever happens , he concluded , ‘ we are surely about to witness the most momentous struggle for a country 's conscience that modern Africa has ever known . ’ |
| 16 | Deciding on the right level for a band depends on the policy ideas which characterize different agents . |
| 17 | ‘ You want to take that brute for a walk ? ’ |
| 18 | Yet he was not at this stage prepared to risk open war on their behalf ; although he disliked the peace of 1328 he had neither the resources nor the general political support for a renewal of the Scottish war . |
| 19 | The five permanent members of the UN Security Council ( France , China , the Soviet Union , the United Kingdom and the United States ) held their sixth meeting on the Cambodian problem on Aug. 27-28 and worked out a possible framework for a solution . |
| 20 | yes , I mean , in contra-distinction to that , first of all a number of these increased charges , like fifty p for a journey to a day centre , they are standard practice in other counties . |
| 21 | Fifty P for a Cinzano and lemonade , or whatever . |
| 22 | THE toughest Budget for a decade , aimed at bringing under control a £50 billion public debt and boosting economic recovery , was produced yesterday by the Chancellor , Norman Lamont . |
| 23 | There is scant support for a project that , if it goes ahead , can not fail to leave its mark on a remarkable stretch of untamed countryside . |
| 24 | Trade in that direction for a parish priest is fairly brisk , arrangements for christenings , funerals , marriages , that sort of thing , ’ Tallboy said offhandedly , as though he himself regularly joined couples in wedlock . |
| 25 | I think there is , there is an attempt to move in that direction for a set of ideological reasons . |
| 26 | Among them is the failure of second-vote support for a party to match up to its first-vote support . |
| 27 | ‘ Training to become a full-time responsibility for a member of staff ’ . |
| 28 | I was wounded in a demonstration and had to retire from political activities for a while to recuperate and another member was killed in the massacre , when the security forces dislodged the peaceful occupation of the Venezuelan Embassy . |
| 29 | The Rules of the Supreme Court make no specific provision for a contemnor being served with a copy of the committal order , but as I have mentioned an instruction has been issued by the Clerk of the Rules with the approval of the President of the Family Division which makes it the duty of the applicant 's solicitor to serve the committal order , but does not require personal service . |
| 30 | I referred sir at the beginning to er the limited experience I 've had in Nottinghamshire where erm a criteria based policy was put into a structure plan erm for er in that case for a prestige business development I think is what they call it , prestige business park , that was a criteria based policy as a way of containing , stopping this strategic issue becoming a Trojan horse for lots of other things . |