Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bob Eaton , 52 , actually joined Chrysler in April this year as vice-chairman , after a prolonged search for a replacement for the retiring Lee Iacocca , arguably the car industry 's most charismatic figure . |
| 2 | Billy Bingham , the Northern Ireland manager , has recalled Anton Rogan , the Sunderland defender , after a 13-month absence for the World Cup qualifier against Lithuania in Belfast later this month . |
| 3 | Thirteen paratroopers were acquitted after a six-week trial for the gang rape of a 22-year-old woman soldier in their barracks . |
| 4 | Robb left former UK champion Simon Fairbrother trailing in his wake after a furious sprint for the line and the 21year-old medical student confirmed his fitness for a summer of racing on the European athletics circuit . |
| 5 | The Queen Mother , who was released from hospital yesterday after a three-night stay for an operation to remove a piece of fish lodged in her throat , is president of the association . |
| 6 | Although most children remain well as long as they stick to their diet , a few seem to relapse after a few years for no apparent reason . |
| 7 | Mrs Thatcher , although she has criticised the Delors monetary union plan for being ‘ undemocratic , ’ is determined to try to exclude consideration of a bigger role for the European Parliament from the Rome Treaty review process . |
| 8 | His advocacy of a minimal role for the military in politics , which in the past had been rejected by the upper echelons of ABRI , now became a topic of open discussion . |
| 9 | following the making of a relevant application for an intellectual property right , or |
| 10 | The opposition Co-ordinating Committee of Democratic Forces ( CFD ) on Sept. 22 demanded the establishment by Sept. 25 of a preparatory committee for a national conference . |
| 11 | We are not responsible for any additional measures which could be considered to be of a preventative nature for the future . |
| 12 | The family continued to play a significant part in Anglo-French affairs : in January 1317 , Jean , sire de Fiennes , wrote to Edward II as his loyal vassal in Ponthieu , informing him of a rumoured scheme for the partition of the kingdom of France on the death of Louis X. His motive was not entirely altruistic , for Fiennes was a chief ally and supporter of the rebellious Robert of Artois , and hoped for English aid in the form of ships with which to enter Calais and St Omer . |
| 13 | Yet we are uncertain of a temporal context for the poem . |
| 14 | Hull 's most important Humberside derby for years comes at the end of a sad week for the club which saw defeat by Widnes on Sunday , and the sacking of Noel Cleal as coach on Monday . |
| 15 | In the absence of a convincing case for the defence , we would undoubtedly require that the Indonesian authorities be seen to have cleaned up their act and that the New Tribes Mission be put out of business in South America and perhaps worldwide . |
| 16 | As Senna raced towards the victory he needed in Spain on Sunday , James Hunt , a driver familiar with the pressures of a late challenge for the championship , was saying Senna had no right to be on the track at all . |
| 17 | The doctor had been requested , under the provisions of a recent Act for the treatment of mental deficiency , to furnish a report about the number of such inmates who were suitable for treatment in a separate institution — he was able to identify five such patients , whose ages ranged from 13 to 25 years . |
| 18 | Instead , respondents reveal that they possess the basic elements of a justificatory argument for the monarchy . |
| 19 | The International Herald Tribune of June 29 reported that the Swedish immigration board had turned down the asylum application of a Soviet Jew for the first time in memory and that immigration officials had announced on June 28 that Soviet Jews would no longer be granted asylum automatically . |
| 20 | The Saatchi Brothers became a symbol of success in the Thatcher years , originally on the back of a successful campaign for the Leaderene in 1979 . |
| 21 | Kuusinen quoted to them the obligations imposed by the Whitsun Conference decision : We propose that the following questions be raised for discussion in all the organisations of the ILP. ( l ) What concrete mass actions on the basis of the united front of the C.P.G.B. and the ILP can and must be carried out in the near future with the aim of a successful struggle for a 10% wage increase , against the Means Test , and other similar partial demands advanced by the C.P.G.B. and the ILP ? ( 2 ) Is it desirable for the ILP to join the Communist International as a Party sympathising with Communism with the right to a consultative vote … ? |
| 22 | Deanside Transit Limited , based near Glasgow city centre , is a recent example of a successful applicant for a Section 8 grant , now undertaking a sizeable rail/road transhipment operation . |
| 23 | The launch of the SSL was the subject of a successful submission for the Library Association/T . |
| 24 | Following his September release from a British prison after serving seven years of a 10-year sentence for a failed car bomb attempt in London in 1980 , Kourosh Fouladi , an Iranian citizen , claimed that he had been " subjected to various forms of brutal physical and psychological torture " by the UK police and security forces . |
| 25 | Even before his defeat some senior Tories in the constituency were blaming the selection of a black candidate for the lost seat , but immediately afterwards one constituency officer insisted they would be asking Mr Taylor to fight again . |
| 26 | There would be no donning of a black cap for a promiscuous fourteen-year-old . |
| 27 | ‘ Any suggestion or hint of a specific motive for the crime was pursued by the police and the disappearance of other persons at the time of the murder formed part of the investigation . |
| 28 | Lastly , in the project for a prison institution that was then developing , punishment was seen as a technique for the coercion of individuals ; it operated methods of training the body — not signs — by the traces it leaves , in the form of habits , in behaviour ; and it presupposed the setting up of a specific power for the administration of the penalty ( ibid. , p. 130–1 ) . |
| 29 | What is being contemplated here is the rape of a pleasant environment for the sake of a short term cash gain . ’ |
| 30 | Critics of the Conservatives ' policy on health point to the decline in the number of people having eye tests since the introduction of a fixed charge for the service . |