Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JUNE 30 : At the EGM , the BRDC members vote down a resolution by directors to ratify the deal and vote for a special resolution to have it unwound . |
| 2 | But no , as I watched , he turned a ball elegantly off his legs and called for a quick single . |
| 3 | Er the industry is responsible for half our fixed investment and accounts for a third of our manufacturing base . |
| 4 | The extension provided Rabbani with more time to form a consultative assembly , the Council of Resolution and Settlement ( Hal wa Aqd Shura ) , which would elect a permanent president and prepare for a general election . |
| 5 | The opening of the session , called for under the terms of the April 1992 Peshawar Accords in order to elect a permanent President and prepare for a general election , had been repeatedly postponed . |
| 6 | He shaded his eyes and blinked for a few seconds until he had adjusted to the change . |
| 7 | It was like the feeling he used to get when he played another game from his childhood ; that of closing his eyes and walking for a certain number of steps along , say , a wide path in a park . |
| 8 | An enclosed community guards and cares for an enclosed community and we the public gladly subcontract this duty , hoping that it will be carried out unseen and unheard . |
| 9 | Anyone who thinks owning a diesel spells the end of driving fun , should park their backside in the AX 's comfortable , supportive driver 's seat and go for a quick ride . |
| 10 | However I run my boat as a charter boat and cater for a masochistic fringe who would sail on Christmas day if I were to let them . |
| 11 | Heat the oil in a large saucepan and fry the onions until they brown ; add the spices , raisins and almonds and fry for a further minute . |
| 12 | Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze , meeting US Secretary of State Baker in Moscow on Aug. 3 , issued with him a joint statement condemning the invasion of Kuwait and appealing for a global ban on arms supplies to Iraq . |
| 13 | Both rejected positivistic literary scholarship and called for a renewed attention to literature as literature ; both insisted on the differences between literature and other kinds of writing , and tried to define these differences in theoretical terms ; both gave a central role in their definitions to ideas of structure and interrelatedness , and treated the literary text as an object essentially independent of its author and its historical context . |
| 14 | In particular , will he urge that the Indonesians should immediately abandon the trial of the two East Timorese survivors and press for a full United Nations investigation ? |
| 15 | CHURCHMEN and intellectuals in East Germany , worried about the new , aggressive tone that has crept into the emotional issue of reunification , yesterday warned against confrontation and called for a temporary end to mass street demonstrations . |
| 16 | NCR Corp 's Hauppauge , New York-based subsidiary Applied Digital Data Systems Inc has signed a co-marketing agreement with Structured Software Solutions Inc for ADDS to distribute the latter 's FacetTerm Window and session manager software with ADDS ' AlphaWindow and character terminals , making ADDS the only terminal manufacturer to offer windowing systems on both character and AlphaWindow terminals ; to encourage evaluations , value-added resellers can currently buy a single AlphaWindow terminal and FacetTerm for a reduced price of $350 . |
| 17 | Add the mushrooms and pepper and cook for a further 10 minutes . |
| 18 | Add the garlic , chilli and pepper and cook for a further 1 minute , stirring . |
| 19 | At 2 p.m. a big KC 135 tanker lifted off from Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington and headed for a mid-air rendezvous with the Eagle at 45,000 feet over the eastern seaboard . |
| 20 | It recommends an increase in the number of part time training posts and allows for a resulting modest fall in the average number of whole time equivalents that doctors work . |
| 21 | Inspired by the arrival of The Beatles to play the guitar , he bought a cheap Harmony electric and a Kalamazoo amp and dabbled for a few years before joining a high school covers band , playing soul , rock and a good deal of Hendrix . |
| 22 | But Laura herself quietly went in the next day , spent hours cleaning up the mess and advertised for a new manageress . |
| 23 | If you look at the report , White Paper , you 'll notice that it 's sticking to a , a freezing of the nineteen-ninety levels by the year two thousand and five , and you may feel that you would like to see this country come more into line with the other E E C countries and ask for a freezing by the year two thousand . |
| 24 | Heat the oil in a large frying pan , add the garlic and cook for a few seconds . |
| 25 | The Prague meeting was preceded by sharp disagreements between the Soviet Union and some member states , notably Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland , whose representatives spoke openly about the dissolution of COMECON and pressed for a speedier implementation of currency convertibility and the right to trade individually with organizations such as the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 26 | Add chilli and paprika and cook for a further minute . |
| 27 | China has regretted North Korea 's defiance and called for a nuclear-free Korean peninsula . |
| 28 | The local children used to play in the cutting and had for a long time fancied the hut as a den or HQ for their games , but the hut was always locked by a large padlock securing a hasp that was red with rust but still secured the door . |
| 29 | But I am long on stamina and waited for a red-breasted merganser aimlessly doing nothing under the cliff on which lay the dozing duo . |
| 30 | Thus , for example , the disabled wife ( or cohabitee ) can only draw the Non-contributory Invalidity Pension if she is unable to perform normal ( as defined by the DHSS ) household duties , regardless of whether housework is her normal profession , regardless of the fact that men and single women only have to prove inability to do paid work to qualify for the pension ; and conversely , the Invalid Care Allowance , for people who lose their incomes because they must stay at home and care for a sick relative , is not payable to wives ( or cohabitees ) because it is assumed that they would be at home in any case ! |