Example sentences of "for [noun] [subord] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Details of pits to be saved will be disclosed by British Coal , although no colliery will be firmly picked for closure until a further review is complete . |
| 2 | An internal memo , circulated to all staff at the 850-bed Addenbrooke 's Hospital , Cambridge , lays down guidelines for action if a terminally-ill patient 's heart stops . |
| 3 | Once , when native Hawaiians were out for blood after a visiting Australian had abused a local , he brought the two sides together and persuaded them to settle peacefully . |
| 4 | At the end of a gloomy , recession-blighted year , booksellers at last had cause for optimism after a last-minute rush by Christmas shoppers boosted sales . |
| 5 | This is partly because piracy in Britain is more a game for enthusiasts than a serious business . |
| 6 | In Winterhalter Gastronom Ltd v Webb ( 1973 ) , an employee , dismissed unfairly for incompetence because a fair period to improve was not allowed , nevertheless saw his compensation halved by the Employment Appeal Tribunal , who concluded that : |
| 7 | ( 6 ) A tender offer must be for cash whereas a partial offer may be for securities of the offeror . |
| 8 | The ideal model for intervention after a threatening event has occurred to a vulnerable person is that suggested by Parkes ( 1980 ) in his recommendations for bereavement counselling . |
| 9 | In fact , such separable SBUs with no possibilities of synergy with other SBUs are , he says , likely to be prime candidates for divestment when a good opportunity arises . |
| 10 | Ten years later came another blow for Cubitt when a large tower was added ; while it was ‘ ecclesiastical ’ , it was not Gothic . |
| 11 | McMinn had his best chance of the second half for Dungannon when a great shot from the right-hand corner of the box went narrowly wide . |
| 12 | Meanwhile United States congressional committees dealing with intelligence matters were considering a request by the US administration to maintain technical and military assistance for UNITA until a definitive peace agreement had been reached [ see also p. 37523 ] . |
| 13 | POLICE today appealed for witnesses after a four-year-old boy was killed in a road accident in Co Antrim . |
| 14 | However where demand is known to be variable , for example if a large share of output is exported , any major internal expansion carries the danger of periodic over-capacity with consequent higher average costs just as the market is weakest . |
| 15 | The situation could easily get worse if something is not done immediately and I suggest moving the travellers away from the centre of town to the outskirts onto a piece of disused land for example until a short-term site has been rented or a permanent site set-up . |
| 16 | So you 're stuck there for life unless a young lady from the audience can help us out here ? |
| 17 | I 've mentioned briefly there is um er , let me see , it 's , women who 've been abused show more need for power than a comparable group of unabused women . |
| 18 | A real love song is infinitely more appropriate for Christmas than a trashy song cooked up as a commercial gimmick . |
| 19 | CD deliberately created this character as an atonement for Fagin after a Jewish lady had expressed to him her regret that the earlier character had helped to feed anti-Jewish prejudices . |