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 | On Nov. 22 the European Parliament called for an investigation into the activities of secret anti-communist organizations , especially Gladio , which , it said , had " escaped all democratic control " . |
| 3 | Angry telephone calls followed and a strong case made for a review of Japanese regulations . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | One World Bank study estimated that in sub-Saharan Africa the public sector accounted for an average 30 per cent of GDP — but appropriated 60 per cent of capital available for investment . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The old seaman called for a glass of rum , and stood outside , drinking and looking around . |
| 10 | Going back to work in a different job helped for a while , however . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm afraid we shall have to keep this room locked for a day or two . ’ |
| 12 | Here there was complete inhibition of growth , and this inhibition extended for a distance of about 1 cm. beyond the limits of the mucus . |
| 13 | This visitor opted for a mermaid . |
| 14 | Following the wrecking of the town of Sirnak in August [ see pp. 39067-68 ] , the normally pro-government Turkish Daily News called for an investigation into claims that the army had run amok . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This part of the Act has been strongly criticized and to some extent misused for a minority of very difficult cases . |
| 19 | In London , the Foreign Office called for a return to democracy , and EC talks have begun on concerted action . |
| 20 | It was a kind of obligation to those organisations such as Ultra and other secret sources which supplied the highly sensitive and closely guarded intelligence required for an operation by the S.A.S. to be mounted at all . ’ |
| 21 | Southern England , the Netherlands and the northern coasts of Germany and France are all now rated as high-risk areas by insurance companies , with global warming blamed for an increase in the frequency and severity of storms . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | The fieldworker on any given occasion selects modules from a larger set in order to construct a conversational network appropriate to a given speaker ; figure 4.1 shows a typical network selected for an adolescent or young adult in Philadelphia . |
| 24 | 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 ’ . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 |