Example sentences of "for the [noun sg] [prep] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a counterattack the FARC claimed responsibility for the bombing of a bus in Medellín on Dec. 12 in which seven police officers were killed ; for five widely separated attacks on Dec. 13 during which an Army helicopter was badly damaged and an unspecified number of soldiers killed ; for the dynamiting of a police post in Medellín on Dec. 15 ; and the blowing up of an aircraft at the Villa Garzon airport , 482 km south of Bogotá in the south-western region of Putumayo , on Dec. 16 ( all 19 passengers having been evacuated beforehand ) . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , estimates had already been obtained for the provision of a nurses ' recreation room and tennis courts for the nursing staff . |
| 3 | for the price of a chapati . |
| 4 | Morocco and the World Bank reached an agreement on Dec. 1 , 1988 , for the disbursement of a dollars 200,000,000 loan ( repayable over 20 years ) to help finance the country 's medium-term adjustment programme and enable Morocco to reduce import procedures and encourage exports . |
| 5 | British Legion was able to raise funds for the erection of a Servicemen 's Memorial Club in Bourne Place , just off the Chiswick High Road , between Dukes Avenue and Duke Road . |
| 6 | A national system of appraisal might also encourage the teacher unions to unite in a demand for the establishment of a Teachers ' Council which could be made responsible for regulating entry to teaching and for establishing a code of conduct ( particularly important when teachers are able , in appraisal schemes , to judge their colleagues ) . |
| 7 | — ( 1 ) Where , at the beginning of the transitional period , there is no students ' association established for the students of the college , the college council shall , as soon as is practicable after that date ( after consultation with such persons as appear to them to be representative of students of the college ) , make a scheme for the establishment of a students ' association for students of the college . |
| 8 | This latter group of people will inevitably form the great majority , and it is mainly they who will provide the justification for the establishment of a clergy for the ‘ Alternative Religion ’ , and it is they who will prefer to put their faith in carefully chosen leaders , possibly elected from among the others , and on whom they can call for guidance . |
| 9 | But the six ministers did draft a joint proposal for the pooling of information and work on the uses of nuclear energy , and for the establishment of a customs union that would lead to a common market . |
| 10 | This election campaign was , apart from anything else , a good advertisement for the need for a positive-images policy to dispel , maybe not the hatred , but certainly the fear and the ignorance about homosexuality . |
| 11 | PC Timms strolled into the inn , confronted the man at the bar and accused him of being Robert James , wanted for the murder of a police officer at Harwell . |
| 12 | Two men have gone on trial for the murder of a police informer , whose body was found weighted down in a lake three years ago . |
| 13 | Police shot dead three men in a raid on a Cairo flat on Dec. 19 , 1988 , one of whom was an Islamic militant wanted for the killing of a police officer in the Cairo district of Ain Shams earlier that month . |
| 14 | Calls for the creation of a workers ' soviet , including a summons by the Bolshevik Vyborg District Committee to form it at the Finland Station in the Vyborg district , became widespread . |