Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] for a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also a very helpful discipline if you are considering applying in due course for a Legal Aid Board franchise . |
| 2 | NEW ATTEMPTS are underway to revive Wall Street 's most celebrated failed deal — the buyout of United Airlines which collapsed spreading chaos on the stock market two months ago — with little enthusiasm for a revised offer for the company before next year . |
| 3 | Masked by the cold war , it has in practice fulfilled that function for a long time . |
| 4 | In one of their experiments they first find the region of the visual field that causes electrical activity to be recorded through an electrode placed in a particular patch of neocortex , and then they map the receptive field for a single cell , as illustrated for a retinal ganglion cell in Figure 4 . |
| 5 | Welcome back : A stable owner has made an urgent appeal … to find a foster mum for a three-day-old foal . |
| 6 | This would be the only possible course for a strict Benthamite . |
| 7 | Until the northern route was made the only road link between Applecross and the world outside lay over the notorious Bealach na Ba , a high and difficult pass attaining an elevation of 2000 feet ; a sore trial for a timid car driver . |
| 8 | What had been the living style of a whole region , modified to suit all classes of people , became a piece of pleasant antiquarianism for a rich man . |
| 9 | This provision was established as a result of several pressures , not least of all parental lobbying for an alternative option to adult training centres . |
| 10 | It is less susceptible to tinkering with individual unit costs in order to make the total budget for a particular service conform to externally imposed cash limits . |
| 11 | In 1985 Yndamiro Restano was dismissed from his job as an agricultural correspondent for a state-run radio station after giving interview about his political views to a US journalist . |
| 12 | ‘ I feel we have a strong base for an ongoing quality improvement programme and with the commitment of all at Precision , positive results should be seen during the next 12 months . ’ |
| 13 | One effect of the early deadline was that some teachers claimed that their reports had to be rushed and that there was little opportunity for a considered appraisal : |
| 14 | The Town and Country Planning Act , 1947 , in its present form offers an insuperable obstacle to competitive private building for a prospective demand . |
| 15 | For Franco knew that if the pro-Allied military men had been unable to secure active Allied support for an anti-Francoist coup when negotiations with the Axis for Spanish entry were at their height , their chances of success dwindled even further after June , when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union and the focus of the war moved away from Europe 's southern flank . |
| 16 | So for example , if the poverty line is 40 per cent of average income and 15 per cent of income is required to cover the provision of public sector goods and services , the implied tax rate on earned income for a social dividend at the poverty line is 55 per cent so that individuals would receive 45p of an additional £1 earned ! |
| 17 | It is not surprising that Moscow has pronounced its strong support for a nuclear-free Southeast Asia . |
| 18 | This should increase the probability that a review committee will be able to approve a lower budget for a given output than if the bureau were a monopoly supplier . |
| 19 | She 's matched with a somewhat feckless husband and has the sole responsibility for a large family . |
| 20 | With today 's fast and powerful machines there is a strong case for a complete re-write of DOS or for changing to an operating system specifically designed for power computing . |
| 21 | There is now a strong case for a realistic dialogue between those studying glacier dynamics and those studying forms . |
| 22 | 5.3 There is therefore a strong case for a full review of these gradings to be carried out . |
| 23 | Since there is little support for a temporary return to a Premier Division of 16 — this arrangement , of course , would deny the city clubs income generated by extra matches against Rangers and Celtic — a league set-up of 14-12-12 is on the cards for 1993-94 . |
| 24 | there 's been a lot of people that have been on that level for a long while . |
| 25 | Hoovers , vacuum cleaners , call them what you will , may be the answer to the houseworker 's prayer but more unexpectedly they are also the source of unparalleled gratification for a surprising number of randy old men . |
| 26 | The neck is on the narrow side for a fingerpicking guitar , with a soft rounded profile . |
| 27 | Whichever you know if you take the cost some cost twelve hundred pound for a full page others cost three hundred and fifty and some cost even two hundred and fifty pound for a small strip on the golf cards . |
| 28 | HOUNSLOW 's eight-year search for a new home has ended . |
| 29 | At this time , some ozone-depleted air may drift out from the hole , passing over Australia and New Zealand and exposing that continent for a short period to increased ultraviolet radiation penetrating through the thinned ozone layer . |
| 30 | One of my in fact was I can remember , I went up when I was first er paying for paying for an annual ticket with their bus passes and eight pound for a single ticket for us er for our quarterly ticket . |