Example sentences of "in [verb] for a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only does the Institute possess the facilities and staff to implement such tuition , it also realises the need for flexibility in catering for a whole range of requirements . |
| 2 | He would also be seeking compensation and if the authority made no offer he would have no hesitation in suing for a five-figure sum . |
| 3 | I knew players like the incomparable Joe Davis and I doubt if he did any more training than is entailed in going for a long walk . |
| 4 | The combination of his gentle business experience , his belief in the politics of personal relationships and his patience in waiting for a desired outcome were unusual and valuable qualities . |
| 5 | The foreign oil producers were slow in supplying oil , and there were delays in loading and off-loading it ( and in waiting for a full ship-load ) . |
| 6 | The former Home Secretary took common ground with Mrs Thatcher in opposing a Brussels-dominated and economically illiberal ‘ Fortress Europe ’ and went much further than Mr Lawson or the pro-European cabinet majority in calling for a central bank on the looser American rather than Bundesbank model . |
| 7 | Similarly he anticipated Dimitrov in calling for a new approach to the middle classes . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , the SPD , like Labour , has been nervous in calling for a complete recasting of public financing and altering both tax and expenditure profiles to fit with a post-cold war world while attempting to relate to an electorate that believes it is paying too many direct and indirect taxes as well as ever-rising social security and health insurance payments . |
| 9 | In a letter to Peter Brooke , Secretary of State at the Department of National Heritage , the Council for the protection of Rural England and the Council for British Archaeology have joined their voices to that of the National Trust in calling for a public review of the new strategy . |
| 10 | My hon. Friends and I feel justified in asking for a special debate to call attention to the ridiculous fact that , at Humberstone , which is part of the EDDR route , a mile of new road costing £1.5 million has stood finished and unopened for over a year , while the county and city councils argue about a proposed route by the side of the clinic on Scraptoft lane through a recreation area which happens to be owned by the city council . |
| 11 | At the end of a House of Commons debate on Oct. 21 six backbench Conservatives joined all the opposition parties ( except the Ulster Unionists ) in voting for a critical motion , on which the government 's majority was reduced from 21 to 13 . |
| 12 | If you believe it , you are naive , and if you do n't you are dishonest in arguing for a non-payment campaign . ’ |
| 13 | And what we 've got in standing for a general election is about two and a half thousand men and about five hundred women . |
| 14 | It causes them to suffer temporary lapses of memory and to have difficulty in concentrating for a short period of two to three hours . |
| 15 | Rationing and controls in general were not regarded by the public as desirable elements in planning for a better Britain but as irksome and restrictive consequences of the war which should be got rid of as soon as better times allowed . |
| 16 | He also stressed that the personal satisfaction in working for a small firm was as important as the financial contribution the sector made to the economy . |
| 17 | Though I might , in working for a different future , find the struggle of women politically inspiring , I am unlikely to find a community in which women were not counted equal a medium through which I can gain a glimpse of God . |