Example sentences of "a [noun] [noun sg] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he had known what fate lay in store for his beloved Boks perhaps State President F.W. de Klerk would have decided against holding a midweek reception for the three teams about to lock horns for the supremacy of the Southern Hemisphere some 200 metres down an old mine shaft on the Johannesburg Reef — Shaft 14 , Gold Reed City , to be precise . |
| 2 | The Tanzanian Wildlife Department is negotiating a contract with a Botswana company for the annual culling of 2,000 hippopotamuses in order to harvest their canine and incisor teeth , which can be used as an ivory substitute . |
| 3 | Less easy for ( and possibly of less interest to ) preclinical staff is dealing with a case study for the new pathway ; such a case might start with the pharmacology of tetracyclines , pass through their therapeutic use in general , and end on a debate about whether oxytetracycline should be used as prophylaxis for traveller 's diarrhoea in Mexico . |
| 4 | Next year the EC has to make a budget plan for the following five years . |
| 5 | On Oct. 5 the government was thrown into turmoil following the defeat in the House of Representatives of a budget agreement for the financial year beginning Oct. 1 . |
| 6 | All parties realize this , and so protectionism acts as a bargaining counter for the rich , and a bluff for the poor , and mainly comes to life in its use as a rhetorical device to satisfy domestic constituencies . |
| 7 | Walsall Museum and Art Gallery has developed an energetic and lively educational programme around the collection , encouraging primary school teachers to use it as a teaching aid for the national curriculum , starting up a printmaking course inspired by the works in the collection and offering prizes for the best short description of one of the works . |
| 8 | The programme is supported by WACC and will ultimately lead to the creation of a support centre for the ongoing production and distribution of educational resources . |
| 9 | It is now possible to have eight or nine merely average international players functioning as a support unit for the one or two stars who will be expected to win the games with a decisive intervention . |
| 10 | On May 28 , 1989 — International Day of Action for Women 's Health we plan to hold a seminar/meeting to consolidate our gains and set up a support network for the genital mutilation campaign . |
| 11 | A support group for the elderly in north Oxfordshire says it wants more cooperation with the police in helping what it reckons is an increasing number of elderly victims of crime in the area . |
| 12 | Will the Foreign Secretary also help to provide a breathing space for the Russian Government , by supporting their call for a suspension of interest payments on the debt ? |
| 13 | Licensing justices blocked a liquor licence for the planned £1.25m football centre last December . |
| 14 | Fujitsu has started negotiations on a joint venture with the Chinese Science Commission of Tianjin for the development of a computer system for the Chinese language . |
| 15 | Thames Valley Police have the luxury of a disused airfield and sophisticated equipment to learn about car control … now there 's a computer simulation for the ordinary driver . |
| 16 | A promo gimmick for the single release of ‘ Love Sex Intelligence ’ , it promises to set ‘ synapses snapping , assist memory and verbal ability and energise both mind and body ’ . |
| 17 | He proposed the establishment of a funding council for the grant-maintained sector and safeguards to prevent disputes over the running of schools , as had occurred recently at Stratford School in east London . |
| 18 | Two Japanese companies will build a condom factory for the Soviet Union , which has an acute shortage . |
| 19 | The disadvantages of a Marcus parser for the current application include : |
| 20 | A principal objective of the strategy is to act as a bidding document for the next tranche of European Structural Funds . |
| 21 | The Change Coordinator should prepare a Change Report for the New OED Computer Group Manager every two weeks . |
| 22 | Other writers have used ‘ liberal ’ as a blanket term for the whole broad line of development which runs from Schleiermacher . |
| 23 | He thought : He has acquired the mystique of the story-teller and , glancing at the ring of fire-lit and intent faces , he was suddenly reminded of his first village school , of the children clustered round Miss Douglas at three o'clock on a Friday afternoon for the half hour of story-time , and felt a pang of pain and regret for those lost days of innocence and love . |
| 24 | Time was imperative as the pressure was on to produce a result that would enable Stoddard Templeton to achieve a Spring Launch for the new product . |
| 25 | RICHIE Woodhall , who defends his Commonwealth middleweight title against John Ashton in Telford tomorrow , plans a spring challenge for the European title at the Hawthorns . |
| 26 | Other features include a Madagascar Centre for the endangered and unique animals of that country , a World of Invertebrates , a breeding centre for endangered macaws and a walk-through aquarium and redeveloped children 's zoo . |
| 27 | A monster surprise for the little boy from Bosnia . |
| 28 | The impasse was eventually broken after the Prime Minister invoked an arcane constitutional device to create more PCP Senators [ see p. 37705 ] , and used a closure motion for the first time within Canada 's upper chamber . |
| 29 | He also had , the article conveys , a tin ear for the ordinary man . |
| 30 | As well as the letters that poured in , the other guests on the programme had all said privately that they would do what they could to help ; Ian Hislop , the editor of Private Eye , had already printed a Friends of John McCarthy ad for free , and Gerald Scarfe had agreed to design a programme cover for the upcoming Benefit . |