Example sentences of "for [noun] a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Dayton currently co-chairs a committee seeking to raise $50 million for endowment a far cry from the $30,000 annual drives he remembers leading in the 1940s ! |
| 2 | Mobil Badger is to offer for license a novel technology for reducing the benzene content of light reformate , the Mobil benzene reduction process . |
| 3 | This process directly undermined the rule of law : ‘ such transference of authority saps the foundation of that rule of law which has been for generations a leading feature of the English constitution . ’ |
| 4 | For instance a large chunk of those voters who did declare firmly their intention to vote Labour were still prepared to recognise that Michael Fallon has done a good job as a constituency MP for the town since his election victory in 1983 . |
| 5 | I I I it is very easy to find examples which , which show how absurd they were , the results f f , for instance a large area like Devon and Cornwall with four thousand square miles having now thirty elected members reduced under the Bill to eight would be absurd . |
| 6 | For instance a thin stream of liquid , from a tap which is being turned off , will reach a diameter at which it pays it to break up into separate drops simply because these have less aggregate area then the cylindrical stream . |
| 7 | The team included the Celtic goalkeeper Johnny Thomson playing one of his last games for Scotland a few months before his tragic death . |
| 8 | Such an effects-based approach is seen as being more efficient in that it is likely to capture for investigation a greater number of anti- competitive agreements and fewer of those that are innocuous . |
| 9 | For example : After payment of the Preference Dividend and the Preferred Dividend payable in respect of each financial year of the Company ( including any Arrears of the same ) the Company shall [ subject to provisions of clause … of the facility agreement ] pay to the Ordinary Shareholders out of the balance of any profits available for distribution a non-cumulative dividend of such amount as the Company shall determine ( but not exceeding the amount recommended by the Directors such recommendation to include the consent of the Investors ' Director ) on the capital from time to time paid up or credited as paid up on each Ordinary Share . |
| 10 | For farmers a regular income of hundreds of pounds a week from a single field , makes a racing circuit a very attractive cash crop . |
| 11 | But Cecil 's contorted prose reveals an uneasy conscience about receiving objects of great splendour ; and , since no one would claim for Cecil a moral sensitivity above the average , his hesitations probably reflect the conventional morality . |
| 12 | In the following year , 1805 , he designed for Greenock a domed school with a Greek Doric portico , and in 1808 a French neo-classical scheme with Greek Doric porticoes for the enlargement of Broomhall , Dunfermline , for Thomas Bruce , seventh Earl of Elgin [ q.v. ] , both of which remained on paper . |
| 13 | As the Navigator nudged Tormentum Malorum slowly nearer to the indicated zone , using only attitude jets , for Jaq a strange intuition of security began to percolate through the dread engendered by hulk and warp alike . |
| 14 | This applies not only to less able students , but also the cleverest : Paul , for example a final-year student at B , and the only first-class honours of his year , remarked : |
| 15 | In this event , the stratigraphy may indicate one environment , say , for example , a lake environment , and the fossils may indicate another , for example a terrestrial habitat of some kind from which bones have been transported to be preserved in the lake . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , there are often Possibilities for the supplier to charge different people different amounts for the same good based approximately upon marginal value , for example a fixed charge plus an amount dependent upon intensity of use . |
| 17 | Some of these , for example debris within the Earth-Moon system , could not have been shared by the other terrestrial planets , whereas others , for example a general pool of post-formation debris moving in eccentric orbits through the terrestrial region , would have been shared . |
| 18 | For example a great deal of work is being carried out at present on the re-structuring of our training courses with a view to safe guarding the status of our Examination Award and gaining future exemption from lengthy in-service training for newly-qualified teachers . |
| 19 | For example a semi-feudal landlord in a developing country today may employ a large number of retainers or family servants who will work for cash rent , labour rent or a proportion of the harvest on his land . |
| 20 | For example a particular combination of kinetic and chemical energy at a certain temperature may give a cleaning time of ten minutes . |
| 21 | Although the development officers ’ budget was almost entirely used for the payment of support workers it could also be used for the purchase of goods ( for example a single bed for a client coming out of hospital ) but not for the purchase of other services . |
| 22 | Moving from left to right this establishes the proportion of each student registered on a field which is likely to contribute to each subject area 's FTE in each stage ( b , c ) , sets this against current FTEs ( agreed in the 1 November census — after some major ‘ servicing ’ arrangements are allowed for ; for example a high proportion of Stage I accounting is taught by staff from the catering fields ) ( a ) , and adds the likely effect of recruitment targets and combinations for September 1988 ( ij ) , to produce an FTE prediction for the next year ( m ) . |
| 23 | As Larrain points out , for Marx a particular form of practice , revolutionary practice , was the only way to overcome ideology : |
| 24 | It forced many Japanese to recognize the need for reform and a strong national government which might achieve for Japan a better deal in external relations . |
| 25 | Earlier I said we must n't miss a trick , and I would like to offer for consideration a possible strategy for the future . |
| 26 | He turns up the Holloway Road , with its rows of pubs for men a long way from home . |
| 27 | It was an opportunity to place Save The Children Fund 's current and future aim into historical context and for volunteers a valuable lesson in preparation for the seventy fifth . |
| 28 | She explained to Deborah James , chosen from 300 applicants , how she wanted ‘ the design system to be as perfect as it could be so that the accountants could not spoil it ’ — ‘ accountants ’ having now become for Laura a generic term for anyone not on the design team . |
| 29 | If the foundation of the UGC stands as an attempt to relate narrowly-based civil institutions to the concerns of public policy and national agency , the proposals contained in the Newbolt Report represent an attempt to provide for English a similar link with national policy . |
| 30 | For equilibrium a reversible change of state is necessary . |