Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun sg] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Thirteen paratroopers were acquitted after a six-week trial for the gang rape of a 22-year-old woman soldier in their barracks . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We are not responsible for any additional measures which could be considered to be of a preventative nature for the future . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Yet we are uncertain of a temporal context for the poem . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Instead , respondents reveal that they possess the basic elements of a justificatory argument for the monarchy . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The launch of the SSL was the subject of a successful submission for the Library Association/T . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | What is being contemplated here is the rape of a pleasant environment for the sake of a short term cash gain . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Budworth ( 1986 ) has shown , however , that reports that 55 per cent of all ‘ significant ’ world inventions since the Second World War are of UK origin are a garbled version of a 1976 report for the United States ' National Science Foundation . |
| 23 | They were payments made in the fulfilment of a testamentary disposition for the benefit of the children in the exercise of a discretion conferred by the will . |
| 24 | The Sports Illustrated report confirmed scientists ' suspicions that as many as 600 porpoises each year were dying in entanglements in the Gulf , out of a total population for the East Coast of the US and Canada of perhaps only 8000 . |
| 25 | The responses from the task consist of a textual name for the response and a state which selecting that response would cause . |
| 26 | CELTIC aim to rewind the tape and produce an action replay at Parkhead tonight when they bid for a place in the third round of a European competition for the first time in nine years . |
| 27 | So on unemployment there is some evidence of a slight tendency for the public to follow the lead of the parties and the media but it was a very slight adjustment of public attitudes . |
| 28 | It 's in respect of a temporary authority for the Edisford Bridge Inn Your Worships . |
| 29 | The city also holds out the hope of a better education for the migrants ' children , urban facilities , modern consumer goods and a variety of cheap diversions . |
| 30 | So the idea of a mass-market paper for the Masses , rather than just the Concerned and Committed , began to surface . |