Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] for an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed the importance of the correct citing of an author 's spelling is regularly marked by the insertion of sic into a citation by a second author who wishes to disclaim responsibility for an aberrant spelling . |
| 2 | In spite of not being able to find support for an affirmative answer to the question , ‘ Are there logical conditions of something 's looking blue to someone ? ’ in what Wittgenstein says , and not accepting what would be Mill 's reason for an affirmative answer , I think an affirmative answer is the right answer . |
| 3 | Behaviour here is a genetically programmed capacity for an adaptive response to environment . |
| 4 | One body which is not dragging its heels is the CBI , which wants space for an industrial design and enterprise centre — an idea backed by Westminster Council and the City Corporation . |
| 5 | It now looks set for an extended stay on the Great Central Railway . |
| 6 | Rising costs and growing demand means the group must expand to survive , but church elders are refusing permission for an extra day . |
| 7 | ‘ It is not uncommon when seeking consent for an overhead line to put forward proposals in the alternative . |
| 8 | Profitt , Michael Cook , 18 , Adrian Sinclair , 19 , and Lee Scrivens , 19 , all from Birmingham , admitted theft charges ; another six City supporters were also remanded in custody or on bail , and 23 were fined a total of £8,600 for admitting charges arising from a weekend in the Lancashire resort which a Football Association inquiry may punish by banning City supporters from remaining away games ; all their away matches were made all-ticket for an indefinite period after trouble last season at Crystal Palace . |
| 9 | K v and v can be established by calibrating with polymer fractions of known molar mass , and once this has been established for a system , [ η ] alone will give M for an unknown fraction . |
| 10 | Your agency has made application for an Urban Programme grant in the round of grant submissions for 1993/94 , and this letter is to keep you informed of progress in the assessment process for such applications . |
| 11 | A MAN who reaped revenge for an alleged stabbing four years ago was yesterday jailed for two years . |
| 12 | This allows time for an introductory visit , alone or with relatives . |
| 13 | The Israeli striker , destroyer of Queens Park Rangers on Monday , is hoping the Anfield star can provide ammunition for an extended run of scoring glory . |
| 14 | Finally , if enforcement is not working because no assets can be found , you can arrange for your debtor to attend court for an oral examination as to his financial situation . |
| 15 | Where democratic institutions were ineffective as in pre-war Japan , it was all too easy for a collectivist tradition to be used to mobilize support for an authoritarian regime . |
| 16 | In the context of a head 's report dealing with special needs the decision required could relate to anything from the building of a new unit to the provision of additional welfare or teaching assistance for an individual pupil . |
| 17 | Thus they support vast numbers of creatures , and in particular provide the principal feeding ground for an extraordinary variety of specialist birds , the waders . |
| 18 | It created a statutory offence of riot — 12 or more people using or threatening violence for an unlawful purpose . |
| 19 | It does not seem possible that such women just were not able to have part-time work that would enable them to keep house for an elderly parent , and do their own thing as well . |
| 20 | There is also Midge 's deserting husband who left her , not for another woman , but just left her , and went to keep house for an invalid aunt . |
| 21 | This empirical and time consuming search for an effective strategy was mentioned by many arts interviewees , although every advisory teacher appears to have come to similar conclusions ultimately about which classroom practices were effective and which not . |
| 22 | Undertaking work for an overseas office |
| 23 | The phrase seems to have originated in the world of baseball , although some authorities claim priority for an alternative connotation . |
| 24 | Gandhi moves from impersonal to personal descriptions of God without difficulty and while he expresses preference for an impersonal God he is not averse to describing God in personal terms . |
| 25 | The intent poker school looked set for an all-night session , the dancing was still causing laughter in the lounge and the northern lights were entrancing the devotees in the dome . |
| 26 | When you add in all the filler ( Tony Greig interviewing Ian Chappell , Ian Chappell interviewing Tony Greig , Merv Hughes interviewing his moustache ) that wo n't leave time for an awful lot of cricket . |
| 27 | The magazine yesterday launched an appeal , which it called ‘ Lemon Fund ’ to raise money for an eventual settlement or to finance an appeal . |
| 28 | Even as Mr Clinton prepared for his State of the Union address , the annual American equivalent of the Queen 's Speech , his administration was seeking to rally support for an economic plan which sparked the biggest fall in Wall Street stocks in 18 months . |
| 29 | If , after almost 10 years of revisionism , of U-turns on nuclear weapons , devolution , the European Community , state ownership , trade unions , the sale of council houses and more , Labour is still unelectable , is it now time or even overdue for Labour to pull up its roots and die , making room for an acceptable alternative to another decade of Conservative rule ? |
| 30 | Preparing food for an entire ship 's company in the confines of a small galley requires the very best in training , particularly as the quality of food is so important to morale at sea . |