Example sentences of "[adj] a [noun sg] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The formation of a National Maritime Board was announced on 23 November 1917 and standard wages for seamen announced six days later , recommending to the Shipping Controller £pound11 10s a month for able seamen and £pound12 for firemen , with proportionate increases for petty officers and seamen on weekly articles , backdated to 6 October . |
| 2 | The first is that the possibility of a revolution occurring in a country where capitalism was poorly developed made him aware of the problem of setting up too rigid a sequence for human evolution . |
| 3 | Such a requirement for express agreement of admissions policy is difficult to reconcile with the more limited requirement that governors should simply ‘ consult ’ the local education authority which was introduced for the first time by section 33 of the Act of 1986 . |
| 4 | In the view of Nicholas Soames , though , such a capacity for reasoned assessment is , apparently , almost non-existent . |
| 5 | As soon as the area had been measured and surveyed , the work of cutting the new streets through the old teeming and tortuous maze of the centre had never before been attempted on such a scale , though Christopher Wren had made such a plan for 17th-century London . |
| 6 | The advantages to the Commission of programme financing arose from the long-term nature of such a plan for regional development , which required agreement on financing arrangements in advance from all the concerned parties down to the local government level . |
| 7 | LLNL is working with the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory to try out the process on polychlorinated biphenyls , which are such a problem for conventional incineration . |
| 8 | IBM Corp is expected to announce today that it is switching to what it calls value-based pricing for mainframe software , charging on either a per-user or elapsed time used basis ; the company issued a cryptic statement in response to the Financial Times story alleging that Louis Gerstner had put the break-up of IBM on hold , saying that Gerstner had not said such a thing for public consumption and that he had no plans to do so . |
| 9 | He had decided that stocks of Dall 's porpoise would not be significantly depleted by such a move , but he was unable to make such a claim for northern fur seals and sea-lions . |
| 10 | Westinghouse Electric Corp , Pittsburgh has asked 15 cellular and wireless companies for proposals to build a nationwide wireless data network , the Wall Street Journal reported : the company 's idea is to spur the wireless carriers , individually or as part of a consortium , to develop a network that would make it easier and cheaper for users of laptop and palm-top computers and other devices to send and receive information over the air — and in return , Westinghouse promised to buy a substantial amount of transmission capacity for turn-key communications services that it wants to offer over such a network for various types of companies , such as those that manage large fleets of vehicles and security concerns doing remote monitoring — ‘ We 're trying to get a national packet data network that covers , at a minimum , the 30 largest metropolitan areas , ’ the company declared . |
| 11 | CD44 , which we have used as a model proteoglycan , is a plausible candidate for in vivo presentation of pro-adhesive cytokines ; such a role for endothelial CD44 would be additional to the apparent role of T cell CD44 in T-cell binding to endothelium . |
| 12 | Such a search for educational alternatives can reach back to that radical historical tradition in adult education which drew no fine distinction between action and education . |
| 13 | The Commission for Racial Equality has proposed such a strategy for primary care , and the NHS Management Executive has issued guidelines on equal opportunities in recruitment and selection procedures . |
| 14 | Apart from the thousands of common criminals who proved to be such a bane for Siberian society , the nineteenth century also witnessed a steady increase in the number of people who , either by judicial or administrative process , were banished to Siberia for political crimes — committed or suspected — against the state . |
| 15 | I still had this idea that my weight was too personal a topic for other people to talk about . |
| 16 | it may even be safer if elderly , infirm or disabled persons do not use high street cash dispensers , they are too easy a target for opportunistic thugs . |
| 17 | In the 1870s a drive for increased milk production led to an increase in Friesian imports and this typical dairy type settled in the southern lowlands of Sweden . |
| 18 | Among these a need for cross-curricular study featured prominently , as did various areas where curricular provision had yet to be developed ( e.g. the tutorial programme , a life-skills ' curriculum , curriculum provision for the able child ) . |
| 19 | and it 's eight pound fifty a bag for smokeless , I ca n't afford |
| 20 | Anthony and his team have built-up a reputation for running well-organised and entertaining events at this historic Battle of Britain fighter base , so a trip to North Weald on the 4th should be pencilled into your diary . |
| 21 | The Great Hall , in too poor a state for public performances , was , nevertheless , attracting record companies . |
| 22 | That is not so much a sign that molecular biology is a young person 's game , but rather a proof of how great a magnet for young people 's enthusiasm the structure of DNA has proved to be . |
| 23 | The Trunchbull had as great a dislike for long hair on boys as she had for plaits and pigtails on girls and she was about to show it . |
| 24 | Fierce hostility to the bungling conduct of the war since 1370 resulted in the impeachment of Gaunt 's friends — he was too powerful a figure for direct attack . |
| 25 | This was particularly the case with his Class A applications , where twenty-one days was far too short a period for effective publicity , let alone considered public reaction . |
| 26 | In September 1912 a record for fast travelling was set up when a turn-out was made in 30 seconds to a big fire at the foundry at Deanshanger . |
| 27 | In 1930 a scheme for social insurance was implemented in France , covering pensions , sickness and a system of family allowances . |
| 28 | We give in Table 1 a scheme for pivotal condensation of the matrix just examined in Example 2.3.3.1 . |
| 29 | On Jan. 1 a plan for unilateral Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza strip was proposed by two left-wing Israeli Knesset members , Ran Cohen of the Citizens ' Rights Movement and Amnon Rubinstein of the Shinui Party . |
| 30 | I , I did do years gone by yes and they , they did move into the football combination at one time , because it was considered that the Midland Intermediate League was too big a jump for young men into the first team and the difference was so vast in the type of football that Walsall second team they u only playing young fellas , and they used to win seven and eight goal margins every week you know , but then they moved up into combination that was a better standard of football , but latter years economy drives and everything they came back out of the combination reverted to the Midland Intermediate again which I believe there are two phases of that no one for s older players and the other one strictly for youth players |