Example sentences of "for an [adj] [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The license and the right to use this Program is for an indefinite time until terminated .
2 Mitchum had arrived on the set for an early call and found they were nowhere near ready for him .
3 There was nothing we could do for poor Victor at five in the morning ; we should meet for an early breakfast and decide then what to do .
4 The Irises was left on show for an extra fortnight but removed last week for security reasons , according to Mr Cross .
5 If you are looking for an appealing gift that does n't cost the earth , Belinda Thomas could provide a solution .
6 On June 12 the Bank had approved a loan of US$29,200 million for an environmental protection and resource conservation project .
7 They shall take part in the development of co-ordinated strategies and concepts for an environmental policy that crosses state borders in an international and in particular in a European framework .
8 Sooner or later it may become impossible for an elderly person or couple to continue living in their own home without support .
9 Congress , president , this motion is calling for an economic policy that combats mass unemployment .
10 One such company took a finance director of a subsidiary out of the business for a whole year , sent him to Harvard for an abbreviated MBA and to work for a merchant bank in the City .
11 There is nothing at all romantic about this sympathy for the underdog : as a midshipman , we are told , Aubrey had been disrated for an unsavoury escapade and had served a long period on the lower deck , an experience which he never forgot .
12 Primarily , I greatly respected the culture and customs of the people and , as a western woman , although free to dress in my own cultural fashion , I dressed respectfully for an Islamic country and covered my hair , arms and legs and wore loose fitting clothes , so I felt comfortable drawing and was protected from the heat of the sun .
13 Molly waited for an embarrassing reminiscence and got it .
14 In his 1935 budget speech , Neville Chamberlain , the Chancellor of the Exchequer , commented on the implications of a decreasing birth rate for an imperial power and appealed for more babies .
15 London Transport held very strong views in favour of standardization , so when in 1936 , the ex-Croydon cars were due for an annual overhaul and relicensing , they were withdrawn one at a time and replaced by E/1 Class cars between October 1936 and January 1937 .
16 The excellent Mell'O ’ , ably assisted by co-rappers Sparkie & Flint and DJ Pogo , bravely plump for an all-new set that indicates a stunning new LP in the pipeline .
17 Fearing further unrest Alfonso 's government accepted the need for an electoral strategy and called local elections as the first stage in a gradual return to representative politics .
18 Consequently its Laplace transform is or The unit impulse function is infinite for an infinitesimal time as indicated in figure 11.5(d) and its integral over all time is unity .
19 He told Taylor , who appeared in the dock wearing a dark suit with a small teddy bear mascot on the breast pocket , that Parliament had laid down a maximum sentence of 10 years for an appropriate case and to deter those who took the law into their own hands .
20 They have called for an immediate apology and say the muddle may have cost crucial votes in the battle for Darlington .
21 Since 1965 , when the Communist party of Indonesia was blamed for an attempted coup and banned , and hundreds of thousands of communists were killed or sent to prison , the legal instrument most often used to curb political offences has been the Anti-Subversion Law .
22 A year later I met a sales rep for an agricultural firm and married him .
23 A long prison sentence is the penalty for an unlicensed firearm and to keep the three men on bail , year after year , with this terrifying threat hanging over them was a most effective way to deter them from exposing the monstrous injustice of their treatment either in the media or with the European Commission of Human Rights .
24 The magazine yesterday launched an appeal , which it called ‘ Lemon Fund ’ to raise money for an eventual settlement or to finance an appeal .
25 And see whether or not there is basis for an agreement on that because if it is possible to get an agreement on that it is infinitely easier to persuade the government that regulations have to be written which cover all of these issues and cover all of the sectors and that therefore makes it easier to create a situation in which it is not possible for an independent company that wish to ignore the good practice guidelines to simply go ahead and do so .
26 The European Parliament called for an independent inquiry and proposed an arms embargo on Indonesia .
27 May I thank you all once more for an excellent publication and wish you all well for the future .
28 This is essential to prepare our children for an ever-changing world and to retrain employees whose traditional role within a company will change with the advent of computers in general and micros in particular .
29 He followed Creed 's directions , leaving the road for an unpaved track that seemed to lead towards the ocean .
30 He had dropped out of his studies for an English degree but stayed in Leeds because he enjoyed the social scene .
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