Example sentences of "for a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manager Graeme Souness takes his squad across the Mersey to Tranmere tonight looking for a confidence-boosting display before the weekend showdown with Howard Wilkinson 's champions . |
| 2 | The charity already has plans drawn up for a ten-bed hospice at Middlesbrough to care for terminally ill people and contractors are currently submitting tenders for the work . |
| 3 | Nkrumah was hastily coopted into the preparations for a Pan-African Congress to be held in October 1945 in Manchester . |
| 4 | The soldier grinned and reached for a half-smoked cigarette behind the earflap of his fur hat . |
| 5 | Sometimes , particularly for a straightforward search in a printed index , it will be sufficient to establish these concepts in the searcher 's mind . |
| 6 | The campaign Full Employment UK argues for a four-pronged attack on the supply side that will guarantee the abolition of long-term unemployment . |
| 7 | Kerr , reared in West Bromich and once a regular on the terraces at the Hawthorns , thought the chance of facing his boyhood idols had disappeared with his red card for a professional foul at Runcorn two weeks ago . |
| 8 | Hereford were further rocked in the 52nd minute when player-coach Greg Downs was sent off for a professional foul on striker Mickey Spencer . |
| 9 | Derby were convincing 3–0 winners over Pisa , who also had Jose Antonio Chamot sent off for a professional foul on Ted McMinn . |
| 10 | Thistle played it rough — sweeper Ray Farningham joined two other booked players , and in the 83rd minute was sent off for a professional foul on Nicholas . |
| 11 | Thistle played it rough — sweeper Ray Farningham joined two other booked players , and in the 83rd minute was sent off for a professional foul on Nicholas . |
| 12 | This fits the student for a professional career in a wider range of applications . |
| 13 | The honours degree in Housing Studies provides both a broad-based education in the social sciences and intensive preparation for a professional career in housing . |
| 14 | Saxton , a doyen of British headhunting , is Chairman of the Executive Recruitment Association , formed in 1985 to link together a variety of search firms ; as yet , it would appear that few of the largest are interested , but this body could form a foundation for a professional association of headhunting in Britain . |
| 15 | This , as we saw in Chapter 1 , is the argument for a professional mode of accountability . |
| 16 | AMERICAN revellers flocked to US-style grill bars for a state-by-state countdown of the election results . |
| 17 | Since Legnani first danced the famous thirty-two fouettës in Swan Lake , it sometimes seems that choreographers lacking ideas for a spectacular finish to a solo , send the dancer spinning faster and faster round the stage , or set them centre stage and make them turn with increasingly difficult poses . |
| 18 | ELTON JOHN and Axl Rose teamed up for a spectacular duet at the MTV awards in Los Angeles . |
| 19 | An international exile for over two years he is poised for a late , late charge to try for a spectacular break into the Great Britain and Ireland side heading for Minneaoplis in August . |
| 20 | Of a different nature was a proposal from Enfield College of Technology , the first such to be considered , for a part-time BA in Social Science for qualified teachers . |
| 21 | The council received city support for a part-time member of staff . |
| 22 | A Provisional IRA gang , for instance , laid an ambush for a part-time member of the Ulster Defence Regiment on a country road in County Antrim . |
| 23 | IAN McCANN grins himself to death for a cosy tour round the home of BILLY BRAGG , THE HOUSEMARTINS , THE BEAUTIFUL SOUTH and recent recruits THE FRANK & WALTERS |
| 24 | Instead John Major invites 200 carefully selected friends along for a cosy chat about how rosy the Tory garden is . |
| 25 | As for a cosy role in the family firm , forget it . |
| 26 | At first resisted by conservatives who feared its materialistic implications , evolutionism eventually became a central theme of late nineteenth-century thought , the foundation for a unified philosophy of biological and social progress . |
| 27 | In summary there is a need for a unified approach to school roll forecasting based on demographic data augmented by local information . |
| 28 | As services move to multiple locations in the community , the need for a unified approach to establishing and monitoring standards on a national scale becomes even more pressing . |
| 29 | This chapter is therefore structured to show how systems thinking was incorporated into physical geography , to outline the way in which systems approaches have been utilized in other disciplines , and then to sketch the position of the several branches of physical geography in the early 1980s as a vehicle for proceeding towards what may be an emerging focus for a unified approach to the system as applied to physical environment at the scale traditionally employed by the physical geographer . |
| 30 | North had already thrashed out a democratic manifesto for a unified opposition in Nicaragua , the leaders and himself scribbling it out in a cramped hotel room in Miami ; at the hearings , he proudly compared it to the sweaty wranglings in Philadelphia over the Constitution . |