Example sentences of "[verb] for a [adj] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mostly it is a Monday that slimmers pick for a new health regime , a new diet . |
| 2 | Just nine first and you dial straight through , you do n't have to wait for a secondary dialling tone do you ? |
| 3 | It is a better strategy to create resources for industrialization to go for a rich peasant economy than to go for a middle peasant economy . |
| 4 | Far better to go for a new IDE drive , or , probably cheaper , invest in some extra RAM and slap a big software cache onto the machine . |
| 5 | It is a better strategy to create resources for industrialization to go for a rich peasant economy than to go for a middle peasant economy . |
| 6 | But if , if , if that beginning , you know , i if you 're going to go for a rich peasant economy , you 've got ta convince them that it 's , it 's their advantage and it 's gon na last . |
| 7 | The Bank has arranged for a special travel insurance policy to insure those travelling against a range of mishaps such as personal accident , delayed departure and many other occurrences . |
| 8 | Chosen Heritage Ltd. has a scheme whereby a firm instruction can be given for a guaranteed price funeral which can be paid for at today 's prices . |
| 9 | While there are close affinities between education provided in a state and a private school , much of the argument does in the end turn on the belief that there is something different in kind in the educational experience gained by a child in a local community school and one in a private school catering for a particular income group . |
| 10 | Net per share , adjusted for a two-for-one stock split paid in April 1992 , rose 21.4% to $0.34 in the quarter , and 30.1% to $1.21 in the year . |
| 11 | Net earnings per share , adjusted for a two-for-one stock split paid in December 1992 , fell 71.2% to $0.21 in the quarter , 24.3% to $1.78 in the year . |
| 12 | Net earnings per share , adjusted for a two-for-one stock split paid in May 1992 , rose by 1.9% to $1.07 in the quarter , and by 1.9% to $2.10 in the half . |
| 13 | Net earnings per share , adjusted for a two-for-one stock split paid in June 1992 , rose 9.1% to $0.60 in the quarter , fell 65.9% to $0.63 in the year . |
| 14 | Net per share , adjusted for a two-for-one stock split paid in December 1992 , fell 85.7% to $0.02 . |
| 15 | ’ On the north-east corner he asked for a castellated bell tower in which to house the bell he had brought back from Lille . |
| 16 | Last year , Thomas asked for a Mental Health Review Tribunal — and told how he had staged his madman act . |
| 17 | Usually the programme is intended for a certain age group . |
| 18 | One of the men was treated for a minor head injury , a statement said . |
| 19 | He fought for a local government seat in Islington in 1982 and gained Stockton south from the SDP in 1987 . |
| 20 | Mr Lang had lunch with senior Highland Region councillors , who afterwards argued for a single Highland authority based on the region to replace the current system . |
| 21 | The Prism encoder enables its output to be optimised for a particular target decoder design to maximise image quality at the lowest possible bit rate so that a video-on-demand service provider can minimise central disk storage and maximise use of the available system bandwidth . |
| 22 | I want to arrange for a commemorative postage stamp to be printed with my portrait on it . |
| 23 | The miners ' representatives had not even pressed for a free trade union , though they had demanded the removal of trade union officials whom they did not like or trust . |
| 24 | Strictly , a switch-mode p.s.u. can be precisely designed for a particular output voltage at some stated current ; if that design voltage is altered by some means , the performance deteriorates . |
| 25 | On Aug. 2 Nakayama and his Lao counterpart , Gen. Phoune Sipaseuth , signed three economic aid agreements which provided for a Japanese aid package to Laos totalling 1,636,630,000 yen ( approximately US$11,000,000 ) . |
| 26 | The conflict was only resolved in late November when Spitaels and Deprez , leaders of the PS and PSC respectively , signed a declaration promising to ensure the financing of the measures decided , which provided for a monthly salary increase of BF2,000 from April 1991 and a further rise of 4 per cent from October 1992 . |
| 27 | The Cabinet briefly discussed and rejected a dissolution and election on the issue and decided instead to try for a decisive election victory within three years . |
| 28 | Other contract work included the construction of geological sections through a waste-disposal site , the specialist examination of cores from boreholes drilled for a major construction project , and advice on road improvements . |
| 29 | £80–120,000 ( $150–220,000 ) is expected for a Florentine bronze statuette of the Knife-Grinder after the antique , No.14 from the French Royal Inventory of Louis XIV , and a Netherlandish figure of Venus Marina of the early seventeenth century is expected to sell for a similar figure . |
| 30 | New York has always been the place to come for a good show trial . |