Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] for an " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , this conflict between preparation for an invasion and the immediate raiding of the enemy coasts was never clearly resolved ; and a force of Royal Marines and Commandos was held on the Clyde forever preparing for landings against the possible need to capture an Atlantic island base should Gibraltar fall . |
| 2 | On 1 December , the IDA applied for permission for an asbestos waste dump on land it owned at Curraghbinny , an exclusive residential and scenic area of Co . |
| 3 | This is simply an agreement by each creditor to hold off and not to press his claim for settlement for an agreed period as long as the other creditors do likewise . |
| 4 | Having defended the exclusion of capital punishment at Second Reading , the Home Secretary and his Ministerial colleagues conceded a free vote on a new clause moved at Report stage by a private member , Sydney Silverman , which had the effect of suspending the death penalty for murder for an experimental period of five years . |
| 5 | It takes time , patience and resilience to work through losses ; sometimes a further loss triggers off grief for an insufficiently mourned event . |
| 6 | Although an increased susceptibility to hepatotoxicity may be contributory , the main reason for the continuing high mortality from paracetamol overdose is that many patients still present to medical care too late after ingestion for an antidote to be given according to standard guidelines . |
| 7 | Form Two filed into the potion laboratory after dinner for an hour of spell-making . |
| 8 | Such indirect arguments are scorned by modern biologists , but at the turn of the century they were the mainstay of support for an active Lamarckian movement . |
| 9 | A ‘ tougher ‘ form of protection for an area containing many buildings of historic interest , perhaps with particular features typical of the locality , comes when a local authority ( with confirmation from the Department of the Environment ) makes an Article 4 Direction . |
| 10 | Balaguer , who was blind and reportedly severely incapacitated , was accused of responsibility for an economic crisis , high unemployment and constant power failures , and of channelling available resources into the completion of the huge Colón lighthouse project , a contribution to the 1992 celebrations of 500th anniversary of Columbus 's arrival in the Americas , and also seen as a memorial to Balaguer himself . |
| 11 | But there is no late date set into the legislation , only that ratification when it is required means that from the first of the following month then the elections on the new constituency boundaries may take place under the new er European rules so that a decision is of course for an election in June er is in fact needed by the first of May . |
| 12 | The second item is the loss of grant for an archaeology assistant three thousand eight hundred pounds , this is one of these things where we 've had English Heritage at our grant and has tapered to fade out . |
| 13 | The obvious lightness of the skeleton meant that this kind of existence for an air-breathing semi-aquatic animal would have been particularly inappropriate , because of the buoyancy of their air-filled bodies . |
| 14 | This brought home to me the fact that paying lots of money for an established defender ( central ) is a massive risk . |
| 15 | In that erm , in that mermaid outfit , and earning some ridiculous amount of money for an hour , while other models went up and down a catwalk for a tenth of the money , or something . |
| 16 | Its directors had to sustain wars in Asia , try to devise means of governing newly conquered Indian provinces , and cope with the demands of the national government and of Parliament for an ever greater measure of control over the Company . |
| 17 | Accordingly , his cause of action for an infringement before the date of sealing accrues at the date of the infringement but can not be enforced until the procedural requirement of sealing is met . |
| 18 | The simplest course of action for an exporter to follow is to raise an invoice , in the usual manner , on the overseas buyer ; this is known as ‘ open account ’ trading . |
| 19 | This was hardly a rational allocation of talent for an industry which , above all others , was capital-intensive , but had an unrivalled record of good labour relations . |
| 20 | " Could whatever is going to be delivered be some sort of equipment for an oyster farm ? |
| 21 | Where earlier in the day had prevailed an exercise in organised pandemonium — the sawing of wood for an extra set buttress , the clanking of lights being swung into position , and everywhere the ringing cacophony of cross conversation — now there is almost a deafening silence , broken only by the odd apologetic cough as the minutes tick towards 8.30 . |
| 22 | Abelson 1 regards a reasonable rate of publication for an established investigator as an annual rate of two to three papers , rising to four or five when ‘ a hot field is discovered ’ . |
| 23 | Abelson regards a reasonable rate of publication for an established investigator as an annual rate of two to three papers , rising to four or five when ‘ a hot field is discovered ’ . |
| 24 | The officer , in his car , was well out of range for an accurate shot with his cheap revolver . |
| 25 | The risk of bankruptcy for an individual company is related to its net worth and to the riskiness of the external economic environment . |
| 26 | Occasionally , he managed to obtain temporary work : once checking stock in a publisher 's warehouse — hardly the sort of job for an ex-officer and far below his not inconsiderable intelligence — and on another occasion , because of his clerical and administrative experiences in the War Office , helping to sort out the vast archive of a deceased general . |
| 27 | XSoft is looking for high-volume distribution and has cut deals with Qualix Inc and Sun Microsystems Inc to provide the software free of charge for an initial 30-day trial basis . |
| 28 | The spokesman said the authority would be pressing the department of transport for an early meeting . |
| 29 | When you are considering the problem of diet for an elderly parent it would also be helpful to have a copy of Easy Cooking for One or Two ( published by Penguin ) , by Louise Davies , who is a dietician . |
| 30 | The three processes of adaptation and the three sources of adaptedness for an individual are shown in Table 24.1 . |