Example sentences of "for a [adj] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manager Graeme Souness takes his squad across the Mersey to Tranmere tonight looking for a confidence-boosting display before the weekend showdown with Howard Wilkinson 's champions . |
| 2 | The soldier grinned and reached for a half-smoked cigarette behind the earflap of his fur hat . |
| 3 | The campaign Full Employment UK argues for a four-pronged attack on the supply side that will guarantee the abolition of long-term unemployment . |
| 4 | There 's the stirring up-ya-boya numbers like ‘ Pied Piper ’ and ‘ Never Mind The Stranglers ’ , closing-time anthems for a thousand pubs over the coming months . |
| 5 | We were looking about four thousand pounds for for s for a thousand copies of the |
| 6 | AMERICAN revellers flocked to US-style grill bars for a state-by-state countdown of the election results . |
| 7 | ELTON JOHN and Axl Rose teamed up for a spectacular duet at the MTV awards in Los Angeles . |
| 8 | An international exile for over two years he is poised for a late , late charge to try for a spectacular break into the Great Britain and Ireland side heading for Minneaoplis in August . |
| 9 | A Provisional IRA gang , for instance , laid an ambush for a part-time member of the Ulster Defence Regiment on a country road in County Antrim . |
| 10 | IAN McCANN grins himself to death for a cosy tour round the home of BILLY BRAGG , THE HOUSEMARTINS , THE BEAUTIFUL SOUTH and recent recruits THE FRANK & WALTERS |
| 11 | As for a cosy role in the family firm , forget it . |
| 12 | This chapter is therefore structured to show how systems thinking was incorporated into physical geography , to outline the way in which systems approaches have been utilized in other disciplines , and then to sketch the position of the several branches of physical geography in the early 1980s as a vehicle for proceeding towards what may be an emerging focus for a unified approach to the system as applied to physical environment at the scale traditionally employed by the physical geographer . |
| 13 | While many , including the majority of the Barclay Committee ( 1982 ) , had argued for a unified view of the social work enterprise , Nottinghamshire social services department had taken the unusual decision to separate out elements of the social work role for essentially practical reasons . |
| 14 | In simultaneous elections in Berlin on Dec. 2 — the first since 1946 for a unified administration in the city — the CDU led by Eberhard Diepgen won a landslide victory against the SPD-Alternative List ( AL ) coalition led by Walter Momper , which had ruled in West Berlin since the last election in January 1989 [ see pp. 36403 ; 36530 ] . |
| 15 | It eventually capitulated days before the Panel was due to exercise its right to apply to the courts for a forced restatement of the accounts . |
| 16 | For a start , the wound 's a bit high on the head for a straight fall onto the occiput . |
| 17 | The research was carried out for a doctoral dissertation on the princely sum of £410 per annum ( this was the ‘ married woman 's ’ rate of postgraduate grant at the time , £120 lower than the full grant ) . |
| 18 | The gated road offers an opportunity for a pleasant diversion through the park and a chance to join the Knightley Way . |
| 19 | After some manoeuvring in order to reduce the amount of electoral competition and therefore the risk of " splitting the vote " , UUUC won 10 seats for 58% of the votes , that is fewer seats for a greater percentage of the poll than in February . |
| 20 | There is , too , a need for a greater awareness of the changing demands on the scheme . |
| 21 | Greater descriptive flexibility makes for a greater flexibility in the formulation of laws . |
| 22 | Owner-occupation , or home-ownership , accounts for a greater proportion of the housing stock in the UK than in any other EC country . |
| 23 | The risk factors therefore probably accounted for a greater proportion of the grade differences in sickness absence than was observed in the multivariate analysis . |
| 24 | The apportionment , usually expressed in percentage terms , operates with the same penalty as in the normal Tender , viz. that in the event that after Proof the party to whom the Tender has been made is found liable for a greater proportion of the claim than was offered to him , then that party becomes responsible for the Tenderer 's expenses from the date when the Tender was lodged . |
| 25 | Paraphrase , summary and other forms of indirect representation of other texts allow for a greater transformation of the object text , from minor rewordings to allegorical exegesis . |
| 26 | If you do n't have this book , use the profile for a Greater Daemon from the WFRP rulebook ) . |
| 27 | For a greater majority of the time the supposed glamour of Television was an entirely invisible commodity . |
| 28 | Particularly divisive at a parochial level was the stress placed by the bishops on the need for a greater reverence in the communion rite , and their determination that the portable communion tables , which had been used since Elizabethan times , should be replaced by altars permanently positioned at the east end of the chancel and separated from the body of the church by altar rails . |
| 29 | It enabled them to hold their own in the face of calls from male experts for a greater professionalization of the field . |
| 30 | Such a conception allows for a greater fluidity between the two modes than has hitherto been found acceptable . |