Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] for a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems clear , however , that it would be possible in other similar circumstances for a police officer to detain such a person for what he or she did after the offence rather than for the crime itself . |
| 2 | The Board is also considering reducing the required numbers for a governors meeting . |
| 3 | It took three minutes for a plain-clothes policeman to reach the booths , but all were empty . |
| 4 | This is most clearly the case with NATO policy , which relies on possible first use of nuclear weapons and thus opposes one of the most obvious candidates for a laws-of-war rule on nuclear weaponry — namely , no first use . |
| 5 | It has 256Kb of secondary cache to hurry things along , a cached IDE host adaptor with 2Mb of RAM and local bus video ; the ideal ingredients for a Windows workhorse . |
| 6 | They are the ideal tasters for a drinks party or guests who are just arriving . |
| 7 | A new telephone hotline will be established by York City Council to deal with parking problems in the Barbican area under new revised proposals for a residents ' parking scheme . |
| 8 | Liverpool and Man Utd have both had good games for a seasons start . |
| 9 | The man , serving four years for a firearms offence , was on home leave and had failed to return . |
| 10 | The standard cruise power setting of 18,500 feet equates to a TAS of 260 knots for a dry-tanks range of 300 nm . |