Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also a very helpful discipline if you are considering applying in due course for a Legal Aid Board franchise . |
| 2 | The airport duties made a pleasant change for a few of our lads , and one of them was offered a helicopter flight to the rigs one day . |
| 3 | NEW ATTEMPTS are underway to revive Wall Street 's most celebrated failed deal — the buyout of United Airlines which collapsed spreading chaos on the stock market two months ago — with little enthusiasm for a revised offer for the company before next year . |
| 4 | If the interim payment was specifically assigned to one head of damage ( eg on account of nursing services or the cost of a specially modified bungalow for a quadraplegic ) there is no difficulty , and the note at para 29/11/2 of the 1993 White Book encourages the court to assign the payment to special damages to simplify the calculation of interest at trial . |
| 5 | The Presidency and the leaders of the six republics agreed measures on Aug. 20-21 to keep the federation functioning at a minimum economic and political level for a further three months , with trade continuing between the republics and a monetary policy which would allow the country to pay its foreign creditors . |
| 6 | I do n't believe it , paid all that money for a digital said look at the about stuff , at the end of the day they , he is five a side football stuff like that , had I 've been thinking about joining again , but I do n't really know what I 'm gon na do after Christmas now even Karen said she would n't mind joining but I tried , I managed to put her off that idea . |
| 7 | Masked by the cold war , it has in practice fulfilled that function for a long time . |
| 8 | In one of their experiments they first find the region of the visual field that causes electrical activity to be recorded through an electrode placed in a particular patch of neocortex , and then they map the receptive field for a single cell , as illustrated for a retinal ganglion cell in Figure 4 . |
| 9 | Dr Brice Pitt comments in Making the Most of Middle Age : ‘ So much publicity is now given to the art of making love , what men and women need from each other , and how to please your partner , that there is little excuse for a dull , unimaginative sex life even in the supposedly stolid middle-aged . ’ |
| 10 | Welcome back : A stable owner has made an urgent appeal … to find a foster mum for a three-day-old foal . |
| 11 | This would be the only possible course for a strict Benthamite . |
| 12 | Until the northern route was made the only road link between Applecross and the world outside lay over the notorious Bealach na Ba , a high and difficult pass attaining an elevation of 2000 feet ; a sore trial for a timid car driver . |
| 13 | What had been the living style of a whole region , modified to suit all classes of people , became a piece of pleasant antiquarianism for a rich man . |
| 14 | It is less susceptible to tinkering with individual unit costs in order to make the total budget for a particular service conform to externally imposed cash limits . |
| 15 | In 1985 Yndamiro Restano was dismissed from his job as an agricultural correspondent for a state-run radio station after giving interview about his political views to a US journalist . |
| 16 | Throughout England there are projects nationwide , they need practical support , counselling , and specialist treatment , but above all there are sixteen thousand children a year that hope for a better future . |
| 17 | Activity : Some progress was recorded at the Djibouti summit on measures to improve food security and drought and famine early warning systems , but more work needed to be done before a second conference with donor countries could be convened , following that of March 1987 , to obtain funding and technical support for a further series of projects . |
| 18 | One effect of the early deadline was that some teachers claimed that their reports had to be rushed and that there was little opportunity for a considered appraisal : |
| 19 | Its RTnet-OSI V 3.0 networking software suite has been enhanced to include expanded support for a larger number of X25 wide area and Ethernet local area connections . |
| 20 | The Town and Country Planning Act , 1947 , in its present form offers an insuperable obstacle to competitive private building for a prospective demand . |
| 21 | Before the programme is finally adopted it has to be referred back to the European Parliament for a second time . |
| 22 | It was either recovery or recession , modernising the health service or commercialising it , investing in all children or preserving opportunity for a few , said Mr Kinnock . |
| 23 | So for example , if the poverty line is 40 per cent of average income and 15 per cent of income is required to cover the provision of public sector goods and services , the implied tax rate on earned income for a social dividend at the poverty line is 55 per cent so that individuals would receive 45p of an additional £1 earned ! |
| 24 | badge for fifty points and then you get advance certificate for a hundred . |
| 25 | It is not surprising that Moscow has pronounced its strong support for a nuclear-free Southeast Asia . |
| 26 | This should increase the probability that a review committee will be able to approve a lower budget for a given output than if the bureau were a monopoly supplier . |
| 27 | She 's matched with a somewhat feckless husband and has the sole responsibility for a large family . |
| 28 | With today 's fast and powerful machines there is a strong case for a complete re-write of DOS or for changing to an operating system specifically designed for power computing . |
| 29 | Ed , I think argued a very strong case for a greater level of influence of trade unionists in the Party than is suggested in this reform and I can see the force of those remarks but the C E C adopted the position that we did not want to take a position of dominance to the Party Conference . |
| 30 | There is now a strong case for a realistic dialogue between those studying glacier dynamics and those studying forms . |