Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb pp] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A narrow majority voted for a ban in parks and open spaces … but moves to make tenants conform to the ban as well were defeated by three votes . |
| 2 | Angry telephone calls followed and a strong case made for a review of Japanese regulations . |
| 3 | While the Georgian delegation called for a return to military positions occupied prior to Oct. 1 , the Abkhazians insisted on a complete withdrawal of Georgian troops from their territory . |
| 4 | When , at its first meeting in 1831 , the British Association called for a report on the state of mathematics it elicited only three sections , on algebra , trigonometry and the arithmetic of sines , which almost completely ignored the major developments of the previous century and a half . |
| 5 | Thompson is the 4/9 favourite with William Hill to win the best actress Oscar , the shortest odds they have ever given for a British actress nominated for a prize . |
| 6 | A SENIOR English judge called for a review of the conduct of serious fraud cases yesterday after ordering that an American lawyer 's defence costs should be paid by the British taxpayer . |
| 7 | The old seaman called for a glass of rum , and stood outside , drinking and looking around . |
| 8 | Going back to work in a different job helped for a while , however . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm afraid we shall have to keep this room locked for a day or two . ’ |
| 10 | Here there was complete inhibition of growth , and this inhibition extended for a distance of about 1 cm. beyond the limits of the mucus . |
| 11 | This visitor opted for a mermaid . |
| 12 | The GDBA provides all the practical and theoretical training required for a City and Guilds kennel staff examination which is taken after 12 months experience . |
| 13 | Nicholas , now starring in series like Only Fools And Horses and The Piglet Files , was this year nominated for a BAFTA Best Actor Award — while Andrew seems to have disappeared from our TV screens altogether . |
| 14 | But it was in New Orleans , when the alcoholic fog lifted for a while , that he wrote eleven hundred pages in a four-month period ending in early 1987 . |
| 15 | This part of the Act has been strongly criticized and to some extent misused for a minority of very difficult cases . |
| 16 | In London , the Foreign Office called for a return to democracy , and EC talks have begun on concerted action . |
| 17 | Appropriate information needed for a user to make a decision is also retrieved before presenting the command options , for example , maps with the correct specifications ( e.g. with topological relations already created , when this is necessary for the operation ) . |
| 18 | A spokesman for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors commented ‘ The problem is the very low fee charged for a valuation , and the possibly massive liability at the end of it ’ . |
| 19 | A feature of the Blackpool season for many years was the Daily Mirror Week in Blackpool , when a specially decorated tramcar operated for a week on the Promenade , with all the fares collected going to charity . |
| 20 | 1 THE AUTHORS enter into this Agreement in consideration of the Publisher at their request entering today into an agreement ( ‘ the Publishing Agreement ’ ) with their Company THREE VEE LIMITED for a publication ( ‘ the Work ’ ) provisionally entitled Grapevine Video Level II and Grapevine Activity Book II . |
| 21 | The cost of filling BBC2 's hours , one must remember , had to be met from increased licence fees ( controlled by the government ) , marginal economies and earnings from co-productions and sales abroad , and increasingly from the larger fee charged for a colour licence . |
| 22 | Group liturgy can refer to two or three people gathered to pray , to a larger group gathered for a house mass — or a parish group ending up their meeting with an agape . |
| 23 | I got married to an Australian and emigrated to Australia in December 1987 and feeling the need for an Australian qualification enrolled for a Bachelor of Business degree course at a local university . |
| 24 | on the basis of a hundred per hundred thousand square feet to which you 'd have to add obviously a sort of surrounding area from the square footage used for a distribution warehouse , it looks as though it 's around about the thirteen |
| 25 | A new rule published on 31 March in the Federal Register exempts the crops from the long process required for a permit and allows biotechnology companies to carry out experiments with corn , cotton , tomatoes , soybeans , tobacco and potatoes after notifying USDA in a letter and waiting 30 days . |
| 26 | In Section 3.3 an alternative definition given for a geodesic was of a curve across space with no component of curvature in that space . |
| 27 | we 've an all star cast for a round-up this week … topping the bill the big rugby match between Bath and Gloucester |
| 28 | It 's a tremendously stable shoe with good , firm cushioning designed for a heel striker . |
| 29 | We are all aware of the problems of trying to understand a complex document written for a specialist audience . |
| 30 | ( The directories are created by the system administrators , who run a UNIX shell script that takes the login name of each student registered for a course and prepares a directory accordingly . ) |