Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] for a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An NIS Domain license goes for a one-time fee of $25,000 . |
| 2 | Organ jazz has for a long time been club-trendy but it has taken until now for a new artist to come through to match the likes of Jimmy Smith and ‘ Big ’ John Patton with whom she shares a clear affinity in her choice of rhythms and blues inflections . |
| 3 | Such a conception allows for a greater fluidity between the two modes than has hitherto been found acceptable . |
| 4 | Crowds estimated at several tens of thousands massed in central Antananarivo daily in the week after the killings , as most workers apparently supported opposition calls for a general strike . |
| 5 | Man 's mind yearns for a rural existence — where 99.999% of his evolution occurred — but for many of us , mind and body have to take the daily buffets of urban , industrial civilization . |
| 6 | The right hon. Gentleman seems to be saying that , as we would expect of the British police , when a serious allegation is made , the chief constable of one force arranges for a senior officer of another to investigate the allegations , and everything about that investigation is laid bare for the public to see . |
| 7 | According to a study made in 1989 by Professor Klaus Tiedemann of Freiburg University , fraud accounts for an estimated 10% of the EC budget , or about £6 billion a year . |
| 8 | Currently , business investment accounts for a higher proportion of GDP than at any time in the 1970s and early 1980s . |
| 9 | Violence accounts for a large proportion of this increase . |
| 10 | For microelectronics products transportation costs are minimal , labour accounts for a high proportion of total costs , and radically cheaper labour is available in foreign countries . |
| 11 | Predictions from these tables will let you down once or twice a year when a session of light wind invades for a few days . |
| 12 | Early in my CBC days she persuaded me and John Avison to donate silver cups for an annual music competition . |
| 13 | The search continues for a practical solution . |
| 14 | The work to be considered in this chapter provides for a temporary completion of the argument concerning the nature of objectification to which the first part of this book has been devoted . |
| 15 | The Drumbeat Club makes for an excellent evening on shore in Nassau when you can experience authentic Bahamian music in a venue frequented by as many locals as tourists . |
| 16 | This provision allows for a unilateral decision of suspension by a State that does not claim to be specially affected by the breach where it feels the consequences of the breach undermines the entire Convention . |
| 17 | A minimal extension is to a labour market approach , which concentrates on the market productive role of human capital and asks what personal budget allows for a growing economy . |
| 18 | When a child looks for a particular size box or a piece of material of a certain colour or texture , he is taking early steps towards sorting . |
| 19 | The plan calls for a 17 percent reduction in timber felling over the next year , but avoids offering long tern protection to the owl or its habitat . |
| 20 | Under the title Strategic Force for the 1990s and beyond , and drawn up by army chief of staff General Carl Vuono , the plan calls for an entire army corps to be withdrawn from Europe , and for the US Army to be cut from 764,000 men to 630,000 . |
| 21 | The Labour plan calls for an increased effort to meet the EC nitrogen dioxide directive ; better monitoring and the regular broadcasting of air quality information on the media ; the retrospective fitting of catalytic converters to vehicles ; and a halt to the government 's road-building programme . |
| 22 | While the coach waits for a satisfactory fitness test , Steadman , already out of tomorrow 's game with Wakefield , said : ‘ I hope to be ready for a reserve game on Saturday or possibly Monday 's game at Hull but I am confident I will be fit before Wembley . |
| 23 | Marriage calls for a certain degree of maturity . |
| 24 | In its latest review of the UK economy , the National Institute calls for a neutral Budget , rather than further interest rate reductions , to maintain the momentum of the nascent economic recovery . |
| 25 | Greater descriptive flexibility makes for a greater flexibility in the formulation of laws . |
| 26 | The various vibration bands for a given molecule have distinct band envelopes that depend on the symmetries of the vibrations concerned , because the rotational selection rules are different for different vibrational symmetries . |
| 27 | The information about God and his will which the Christian receives through reading the Bible calls for a tough response that is anything but sentimental . |
| 28 | Annual accident estimates for a single manoeuvre with an actual accident figure of 33 ranged from 0 to 450 . |
| 29 | Campaigner calls for a public debate |
| 30 | Finniston pauses for an ironical chuckle as he recollects the weight of responsibility placed upon his shoulders at the time . |