Example sentences of "proposal for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A proposal for constitutional reform to allow a national plebiscite on the reintroduction of the death penalty in Brazil , for kidnappings , burglaries and rapes resulting in the victim 's death , was approved by a Congressional Commission of the House of Deputies in December 1990 . |
| 2 | The County Arms at Blaby was subject to a proposal for ‘ theming ’ as a Beefeater steakhouse some years ago , which was rejected by the local authority with support from the Thirties Society although the building is not listed . |
| 3 | This narrow academic proposal for a one-sided , right-wing debating group was circulated in August 1986 , with options for the future of the association . |
| 4 | The company has used a modified version of the design in its proposal for the European Teraflop initiative . |
| 5 | Thirty years on , English is a large and entrenched subject , and there is no likelihood of putting the clock back , and starting again in some other way : my proposal for a division between Cultural Studies and a degree in poetry is a pragmatic proposal for a way out of current difficulties . |
| 6 | Thirty years on , English is a large and entrenched subject , and there is no likelihood of putting the clock back , and starting again in some other way : my proposal for a division between Cultural Studies and a degree in poetry is a pragmatic proposal for a way out of current difficulties . |
| 7 | Its recent proposal for a ‘ bicameral ’ legislature after 1997 , in which directly-elected members would fill just half of one chamber , was derided by local liberals but liked in Peking . |
| 8 | A PROPOSAL for a referendum on the future of US military bases in the Philippines has paved the way for the possibility of keeping them there . |
| 9 | NEW YORK ( Reuter ) — El Salvador 's President , Alfredo Cristiani , announced in a speech to the UN that he would make a proposal for a ceasefire in his country 's 10-year-old civil war at a meeting with FMLN rebels in two weeks ' time . |
| 10 | Anger over proposal for toll bridge to Skye |
| 11 | In its proposal for short-term action , the Commission suggests a five-point programme focussing on giving both countries huge amounts of food aid and concessionary loans to assist with reform , especially in the farm sector . |
| 12 | A call to implement an earlier proposal for a blacks-only society , amended by the leadership , was defeated by 3,363,000 to 2,715,000 Black activists were heartened by the support of the TGWU for a blacks-only body . |
| 13 | Mr Patten will also outline the forthcoming ‘ green Bill ’ , underlining the Government 's commitment to environmental protection in the wake of his decision to reject a proposal for a new town at Foxley Wood , Hampshire . |
| 14 | The fact that the RSS is even considering a proposal for an independent watchdog is interpreted by academics and scientists as highly significant , as the organisation typically projects a reserved and conservative image . |
| 15 | A Tanzanian proposal for an ivory trade ban is officially the only formal resolution tabled so far , Jean-Patrick Le Duc , a Cites spokesman , said . |
| 16 | Jacqui Lait , of the European Union of Women , attacked Labour 's proposal for a minimum wage . |
| 17 | CITES is also expected to back a British proposal for Appendix II listing of Turkish exports of winter daffodils . |
| 18 | ‘ Our original proposal was for 840 acres but we 're now going to file an amended proposal for 750 acres , ’ he said . |
| 19 | A statement said the group would submit a revised proposal for senior financing for the deal ‘ in the near term ’ . |
| 20 | Still with Booth Shaw , Denison produced the radical proposal for flats for single people in the heart of the city centre . |
| 21 | The proposal for a community charge — or ‘ poll tax ’ — put forward by Nicholas Ridley in 1988 ran into furious local opposition , not least among the Scots who were to be the first to pay this new imposition , After all , freeborn Englishmen , led by Wat Tyler , had revolted against a poll tax as long ago as 1381 , and its bluntness and social inequity helped fuel a considerable popular protest , including in the Conservative shires . |
| 22 | The British used the four ‘ freedoms ’ agreed at the Commonwealth meeting in October 1943 as the basis for discussion , but refused to consider a US proposal for a fifth freedom : the right to pick up passengers , mail , and freight at intermediate stops not in the country of origin of the airline or its ultimate destination . |
| 23 | A US proposal for a transport agreement based on all five freedoms was accepted by only sixteen of the attending countries , and never took effect ; the USA itself abandoned the idea in 1946 . |
| 24 | Mrs Thatcher will also be assured that there will be no unilateral US cuts of its forces committed to Western Europe , that all will be done in consultations with Nato , and that there will be no grandiose new proposal for further US and Soviet troop cuts until the current Conventional Forces in Europe talks in Vienna are complete . |
| 25 | St James 's University Hospital in Leeds , where the TV series is filmed , is expected to take up the proposal for self-governing trusts in NHS hospitals which was given the go-ahead in the Queen 's Speech . |
| 26 | US officials believe they have not heard the last of the Soviet proposal for naval nuclear disarmament , which was carefully phrased to echo a similar plan put forward unofficially by the veteran US arms negotiator , Mr Paul Nitze . |
| 27 | The initial Government proposal for a single accreditation system for advocates was the correct approach . |
| 28 | The Communist Party newspaper , Neues Deutschland , in a draft proposal for a new party programme , admitted that ‘ state-administered socialism ’ had proved a failure . |
| 29 | The AUT 's governing council , meeting in York , agreed to support a National Union of Students proposal for a one-day shut-down of universities in protest at the scheme with teach-ins on campuses . |
| 30 | There 's a proposal for The Thames Story , with tourists on Tudor barges sailing down a river in a rebuilt railway station at the gates of Hampton Court Palace . |