Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Lot number fifty five , Lot number fifty five the hanging lamp there 's the hanging lamp showing for a hundred and fifty pounds at a hundred and fifty , one sixty , one seventy , one eighty , one ninety , two hundred , two twenty standing I 'm offered two hundred and twenty pounds , I 'll take two twenty , two forty , two sixty two eighty three hundred three , going on ? |
| 3 | N now then , the other thing is when Dennis Healey went to the monetary system to ask for a couple of million pounds , he was shout down shouted down , but |
| 4 | I do n't think any MP has ever been to the monetary system to ask for a couple of million pounds , actually . |
| 5 | The acute depression lasted for a few months but the wounds healed enough for Gedge to build up a friendship with Duane , whose latent qualities he later recognised . |
| 6 | Accordingly , he granted leave to the foster mother to apply for a residence order in respect of the four children . |
| 7 | It was common ground that in granting leave to the foster mother to apply for a residence order the judge was exercising a judicial discretion . |
| 8 | This produced the land-cover classification shown for a part of the area in Fig. 5.2 . |
| 9 | The Labour spokesman called for a quick decision on RUC requests for more manpower and Mr Brooke replied that he expected to make an announcement very soon . |
| 10 | It is incredible also that the Labour party proposes for a widow four different intrusive valuations of her house , and proposes , too , that that same widow should be penalised with higher taxation if she has made improvements to her property . |
| 11 | There 's an immediacy and drama about it , and the fact that I can control the entire process from pressing the shutter right through to the dry print counts for a lot . |
| 12 | If you want any details about Carol 's nightwear feature , there 's the usual number to call for a copy of our Fact Sheet . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The public prosecutor asked for a four-year sentence , but the judge sent Meyer to jail for six years . |
| 15 | Our redfaced friend , said the policeman , chose the wrong time in the wrong town to go for a drunken walkabout in the road . |
| 16 | Russell Ferrante has been given permission by the High Court to ask for a second inquest into his son 's death . |
| 17 | However , it is still difficult to imagine the slim person going for a real blow-out , or having dinner , going to the pub , then calling into an Indian Restaurant for a further meal before going home . |
| 18 | Nathan waited patiently for the remissions which made it possible for the ruined mind to function for a time ; he sat by the sick man , who by now was almost blind ; the paralysis was , after all , general . |
| 19 | The confrontation was symbolic of the accelerating polarization which had occurred over the previous five years , with the Popular Front calling for a determined re-application of the policies of 1931–3 and the right for radical constitutional revision . |
| 20 | If the hon. Gentleman waits for a few days , he may be made aware of developments emanating from a source not far from me now which may interest him and which may deal with that point . |
| 21 | Secondly , the hon. Gentleman asked for a change of policy that would ensure that , before people were discharged from long-stay hospitals , proper provision was made for them in the community . |
| 22 | I ask the hon. Lady to relax for a moment . |
| 23 | ‘ What I hope will come out of the book is this : the Americans have a joint US/Russian commission which is looking into the matter , and I think it is about time that the British government asked for a seat on that commission . |
| 24 | Everyone knows that the British constitution provides for a system of representative and responsible government . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In London , the Foreign Office called for a return to democracy , and EC talks have begun on concerted action . |
| 27 | When Mr Adley , along with Mr Gore-Booth and others , was asked to help restore relations with Syria last year , before the outbreak of war , he and the Foreign Office asked for a specific promise that Mrs Thatcher would not intervene again — and got it . |
| 28 | Eleanor McLaughlin has argued effectively that , in comparison in particular with modern Protestantism , the medieval tradition allowed for a more androgynous understanding of God and , since the human was seen as ‘ female ’ before God , also of the human being . |
| 29 | The old lady struggled for a bit and then subsided back into her chair . |
| 30 | But the old Jew sat for a long time in silence as the wind and rain in the darkness outside lashed at the windows of Damiani 's old home . |