Example sentences of "[noun] for a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A teacher from an urban school , discussing the reasons for a recent teachers ' strike , said that not only were salaries low when the amount of time worked outside classroom hours was taken into account , but also teachers often had to pay for classroom materials out of their own pockets , if they wanted to have any . |
| 2 | SWINGEING UK premium hikes were one of the major reasons for a dramatic profits turnround by insurance giant Commercial Union in the third quarter of 1992 . |
| 3 | " Is n't there a case for an official police search ? " |
| 4 | Traders at Goldmans Sachs new London headquarters need no longer leave their desks for a minute thanks to a new system devised by CCG . |
| 5 | Labour contender Ashok Kumar has expressed support for a junior doctors ' campaign for shorter working hours . |
| 6 | The University is trying to raise support for an Equine Sports Medicine Centre , both to pursue research into these ‘ optimal training régimes ’ and to offer a service for judging the fitness of equine athletes . |
| 7 | Checklist for an efficient enquiries procedure |
| 8 | Powergen 's shares brightened 2p to 273p after a 0.3p interim dividend increase to 3.35p and is on course for a full-year profits hike to £395m ( £359m ) . |
| 9 | Reed and his sister Miss B.C. Reed for a one-day foursomes competition . |
| 10 | I joined the Associate Membership scheme in the beginning and left it last year because of what I felt was gross overcharging for a pathetic members ' service . |
| 11 | AEF is priced at $3,000 per site and ADE starts at $26,500 for a three-seat developers ' installation . |
| 12 | Manchester was unlucky to be in the strongest ever field of candidates for an Olympic Games , Jim Knight I R N Tokyo . |
| 13 | Two defendants were lorry drivers for a soft drinks company . |
| 14 | Although they had no objection to the presence of professional artists in schools as a means of stimulating pupils and demonstrating the valuable work which artists offered the community through their own professional activities , they were concerned that the artists in schools programme appeared to be subverting the search for a coherent arts programme for all pupils . |
| 15 | Professionally Ambache will also continue to support demands for a social workers ' council . |
| 16 | At cricket , Leicester Deaf Cricket Club became their local league Division I champions in 1927 , and in 1929 the famous Lancashire and England batsman , Ernest Tydlesley , presented a cricket bat as a trophy for an annual Roses match between Lancashire Deaf and Yorkshire Deaf . |
| 17 | Erm , before that he was the northern sales rep. for a large controls company , he is an amateur , erm , he lives with his wife and eighteen month old son and his wife 's expecting another child next month . |
| 18 | The son of a former naval commander who went on to become a sales rep for a marine- engines manufacturer , Tim was educated at Sevenoaks School , a minor public school in Kent where he became house captain . |
| 19 | The Union meeting on Wednesday Dec 9 discussed the proposal for a new Campaigns Unit within Christian Aid . |
| 20 | At the same time , SunSelect also unveiled its proposal for a Public Windows Interface specification that would bring the Windows applications program interface into the public domain and make it harder for Microsoft to alter it to trip up the competition . |
| 21 | Sun has the backing of ICL Plc and Fujitsu Ltd as well as Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp for Wabi and for its proposal for a Public Windows Interface specification that would bring the Windows applications program interface into the public domain and make it harder for Microsoft to alter it to trip up the competition . |
| 22 | At the same time , SunSelect unveiled its proposal for a Public Windows Interface specification that would bring the Windows applications program interface into the public domain and make it harder for Microsoft to alter it so as to trip up the competition . |
| 23 | All were powered by GE engines and were to formate on a Lear Jet flown by H Clay Lacey for a public relations photographic sortie over the Mojave Desert . |
| 24 | Former world snooker champion Terry Griffiths , who plays for the South Wales CA Division Five side Burry Port , is spearheading a campaign for a new sports stadium in the town . |
| 25 | Traffic free urban squares connected by pedestrian pathways surround the site and will become the focus for a free entertainments programme during the summer , involving a host of street performers . |
| 26 | He had pointed out that Bethlehem House was conveniently sited to act as a reception point for a trans-border drugs run from Canada . |
| 27 | What 17 or 18-year-old in these desperate times can afford the cash for a powerful sports car ? |
| 28 | Rob and Chris , in town for a Tall Persons Club gathering , wanted to meet Bill because he was the sort of guy they could look up to . |
| 29 | In a press statement issued afterwards , NICRA said that the events in Dungannon had proved the need for a civil rights body in Northern Ireland . |
| 30 | Suppose , for the purposes of illustration , that a president and his advisers are convinced of the essential need for a new weapons system . |