Example sentences of "[verb] for a [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FOUR months after attending a weekend course on team building and sales training , staff from Treasury and Capital Markets , Scotland met for a day-long follow-up session in the conference room at Drummond House . |
| 2 | You would n't think for a dainty little thing would you ? |
| 3 | The fans are still hoping the terraces will be filled for a bright new future to come . |
| 4 | JOHN ROLFE and Adrian Breton will be competing for a British Olympic place at the weekend when the rapid fire pistol match in the World Cup Tournament in Los Angeles will be the decider for Barcelona , writes Leslie Howcroft . |
| 5 | Of course the addition of a stereo processor would require a slightly bigger case but would still make for a manageable little rig . |
| 6 | In the first year Armstrong 's concern is to go for a minimum safe agenda — ‘ make sure clients are safe and then build on that . ’ |
| 7 | He was first jailed and then compelled to leave Rome ; he is said to have died in the Punic city of Utica , a remarkable place to go for a disgraced Roman intellectual ( St Jerome , Chron. a. 1816 , p. 135 Helm ) . |
| 8 | The drivers , said to go for a small fixed-price fee , will be delivered in a binary-only distribution and are not covered by a warranty or maintenance agreement . |
| 9 | The drivers , said to go for a small fixed-price fee , will be delivered in a binary-only distribution and are not covered by a warranty or any maintenance agreement , and may not be sold . |
| 10 | The biggest building is a rectangular , windowless hulk erected for a short-lived Anglo-American attempt to develop an over-the-horizon radar system called Cobra Mist . |
| 11 | It had also successfully lobbied for a prestigious residential development under the Community Development Block Grant programme , although the sale prices far exceeded the borrowing capacity of the majority of local residents ( median income was less than $7,000 in 1980 , whilst unemployment stood at three times the city average ) . |
| 12 | And for Americans who can not get enough , CNN has arranged for a gruelling daily schedule of Brinkley on four other topics : food , travel , showbiz and health — laughingly titled Living In The Nineties . |
| 13 | Both men , police have been told , arranged for a leading Liberal supporter to be " reimbursed " " £5,000 , the same amount Mr Andrew Newton alleges he was paid to murder Mr Scott . " |
| 14 | As was said by the Royal Commission , the police should not , on a warrant to search for a stolen grand piano , look under the floorboards or in the water cistern . |
| 15 | It was conceived of by all those who participated in it not as a coalition government as generally understood , but as a temporary , emergency government , formed for a single limited purpose : to balance the budget through drastic economies and increases in taxation . |
| 16 | Contemporaneous reports claim that the vocal stylist has ‘ fallen for a gorgeous dark-haired student , young enough to be his daughter . ’ |
| 17 | In 1982 the Conference of Bishops of England and Wales asked for a new Religious Education programme that would reflect this thinking . |
| 18 | However , the Guild also asked for a comprehensive home-help service so that women would not worry about the welfare of younger children and husbands , but this was not forthcoming . |
| 19 | The mixture of reactionary conservatism and political anti-semitism in the main represented a response of those who asked for a stable hierarchical society based on paternalistic deference . |
| 20 | Hammond , as well as carefully going through the various room assignments with Hunt , asked for a two-storey fire-proof building with attic and basement , and limited accommodation for servants and messengers . |
| 21 | Last year she asked for a big French dictionary for her birthday . ’ |
| 22 | He asked for a little restorative brandy , then saw a baker 's tray of delicious cakes being carried into the inn 's side-door . |
| 23 | A level-top , apart from its looking well , was emphasized for a good economic reason : if the ploughland was level , the drill coulters would bite in at an uniform depth , and sow the seed in the same way ; the ears of corn would then mature at approximately the same time and all the seeds of corn would be approximately the same size . |
| 24 | Ideally situated for a quiet relaxing holiday or touring Exmoor and the Quantocks . |
| 25 | I HAVE been treated for a particular medical condition since childhood . |
| 26 | I HAVE been treated for a particular medical condition since childhood . |
| 27 | These interconnections argued for a close symbiotic relationship between the two media . |
| 28 | On the one hand , there were those who argued for a simple causal relationship between education and security in the labour-market . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , reflecting upon the record of the Labour government of 1945–51 and on the policies which its successor should pursue , he argued for a coherent socialist policy which would be freshly committed to ideals and be capable of realization . |
| 30 | At Maastricht , the Germans argued for a common foreign policy for the European Community . |