Example sentences of "['s] [noun] for an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keeton 's Case for an International University ( 1941 ) and unswerving interest in legal education and the future of the legal profession in England ( University of Cincinatti Law Review , vol 25 , 1956 ) deserve to be mentioned as facets of a wider concern . |
| 2 | February 1 : He snubs Francis 's plea for an extended trial and joins Leeds . |
| 3 | ‘ No I 'm not , ’ Elaine stated , destroying Francis 's plans for an impromptu picnic . |
| 4 | He says he was just starting out in life and they 're very bitter that he was killed by one person 's obsession for an obscene knife . |
| 5 | Here we quote Walpole 's formulae for an arbitrary dispersion of spherical inclusions dispersed throughout a matrix of another material in a homogeneous and isotropic distribution on average . |
| 6 | Legislation is on the up , including the European Commission 's proposal for an eco-audit scheme which seeks to define and regulate environmental audits . |
| 7 | Concern that the conflict would spread to the mainly Albanian-populated Serbian province of Kosovo was not assuaged by Yugoslav and Serb leaders ' rejection of Lord Carrington 's proposal for an international conference on Kosovo , made in Belgrade on July 21 . |
| 8 | are not based on some economic theory but on things I and millions like me were brought up with : an honest day 's work for an honest day 's pay ; live within your means ; put a nest egg by for a rainy day ; pay your bills on time ; support the police . |
| 9 | That sounds humane enough in theory , and no doubt it saved many hundreds of families from starvation during the years of the French wars ; but it positively encouraged employers to keep wages at rock-bottom levels , while anyone who wanted to do an honest day 's work for an honest day 's pay was subject , instead , to the ignominy of accepting supplementary alms in order to live . |
| 10 | And not only the Xaritès ( or Charitès , the Greek Graces ) bend some solicitude over the unnamed revolutionary comrade , so does the poet — for indeed in 1930 Pound 's desire for an authoritarian leader in politics was as ready to fix on Lenin as on Mussolini . |
| 11 | They are also unhappy with the APB 's ideas for an extended audit report . |
| 12 | He added : ‘ Greenpeace 's demand for an immediate zero emission policy is naive . |
| 13 | Justice For All spokesman William Smith said he backed the committee 's call for an independent probe into the cases . |
| 14 | In addition , the industry 's preference for an inexpensive way to meet tougher environmental regulations leads to different research goals from those of the administration . |
| 15 | I think many feel that if one is going to make the sacrifice that is required in the first place then one accepts that there will be other things one will want one 's child to benefit from — even if it means tightening one 's belt for an extra month . ’ |
| 16 | Supporting Labour 's blueprint for an integrated transport system , he said : ‘ Never again must we see a Prime Minister chasing coffins and attending funerals because of a lack of proper investment in transport . |
| 17 | The more precisely a target audience is defined , and the more homogeneous it is , the greater a course 's potential for an extended impact . |
| 18 | In spite of not being able to find support for an affirmative answer to the question , ‘ Are there logical conditions of something 's looking blue to someone ? ’ in what Wittgenstein says , and not accepting what would be Mill 's reason for an affirmative answer , I think an affirmative answer is the right answer . |
| 19 | For all those reasons I am satisfied that although the justices plainly were very concerned and believed that this was the right course to take , I do not think they were justified in refusing the local authority 's application for an interim care order . |
| 20 | There was plenty of room for sheer caprice : Paul I 's order for an overland march across unmapped territory to wrest India from the British was only the most bizarre instance . |
| 21 | At most Clubs , Pirates can sit at the Captain 's table for an early evening meal , often with free lemonade or mineral water . |
| 22 | He repeated the authority 's hopes for an early settlement , adding : ‘ Whether or not this actually goes to court depends on the reaction from the defendants . ’ |
| 23 | As in Britain , only more so , the United States ' search for an intentional role ( being responsible ) is a search for its own nationhood . |
| 24 | Agreed royalties will be paid for the use of each others ' code for an agreed period of time . |
| 25 | The new government of V. P. Singh made clear its intention to undertake a fresh initiative to find a peaceful political solution to the Sikh militants ' demand for an independent homeland of " Khalistan " . |
| 26 | There was here a latent tension , perhaps most fully apparent in the contrast between socialist demands for State corporations and the Keynesians ' call for an anti-trust policy to oppose monopoly power . |
| 27 | It cleverly created its Polo brand to exploit Americans ' nostalgia for an English country life which never really existed except in Hollywood movies , and has been careful to use the brand only for top-of-the-range products . |
| 28 | " that it is desirable that before anything is done as to interfere in the internal arrangement of the School , that application be made to the Goldsmiths ' Company for an additional grant . " |