Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] for an " in BNC.
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| 1 | It hated pretension , however , because it loved the life of mind ; and what Golding once called a ‘ blow for the ordinary universe , is a denial , often explicit , of a pre-war tradition of fiction composed for an intelligentsia and self-consciously excluding the vulgar appeals of fast-paced narrative and clarity of assertion . |
| 2 | In May 1967 the mayor ridiculed a Nationalist proposal to submit a draft memorial to the Ministry of Development asking for an extension . |
| 3 | Held , granting the application , that the coroner had wrongly precluded himself from considering whether the cause of death had been aggravated by lack of care ; that where the medical cause of death was accompanied by concurrent events which themselves might be a cause of death , there was a case for considering the death ‘ unnatural ’ within the meaning of section 8(1) ( a ) of the Coroners Act 1988 , and an inquest should be held ; that the statutory duty imposed by section 11(5) of the Act of 1988 to investigate how death occurred prevailed in any conflict with the provision in rule 42 of the Coroners Rules 1984 that verdicts should not be framed so as to appear to decide any issue of civil liability ; that it was in the public interest to investigate by means of an inquest whether the deceased 's death might have been avoided had an ambulance been available earlier ; and that , accordingly , the coroner 's decision not to hold an inquest would be quashed and an order of mandamus granted for an inquest to be held ( post , pp. 491E , H , 493C–D , E–F ) . |
| 4 | Adjustment can now come about automatically via the exchange rate , although the success of this mechanism depends upon the elasticity of demand for imports and exports as far as the current account is concerned , and on the stability of capital flows for an overall balance of payments . |
| 5 | The chimpanzee 's mode of life calls for an ability to adjust to rather sharp motivational changes associated with shifts in party size and composition during group gatherings . |
| 6 | We have listened to the Secretary of State speak for an hour and a minute , and during those 61 minutes never once did he utter a word about the central feature of the Bill — the doctrinaire destruction of Her Majesty 's inspectorate of schools and the privatisation of the national and local schools inspectorates . |
| 7 | If you are unsure of which style of lettering to choose for an initial design , look through some magazines or books for inspiration , or browse through a catalogue of dry transfer lettering until you had a typeface you like . |
| 8 | The Sunday Independent , however , does not circulate on the British mainland and so there was still no head of steam generated for an inquiry . |
| 9 | A study of the conduct of litigation calls for an innovatory research design . |
| 10 | And I had it in mind to ask for an advance . ’ |
| 11 | The explanation given for the importation of two comparatively low-rank police officers was that the RUC lacked the expertise in accountancy needed for an investigation of that kind . |
| 12 | Thus up to the end of World War II ( when the public sector marriage bar was abolished and young women retained paid jobs on marriage ) , in order to qualify for an occupational pension in old age derived from her own earnings a woman usually had to remain unmarried . |
| 13 | You must move your forces most urgently from the Celje area … in order to concentrate for an attack aimed at the annihilation of this column . " |
| 14 | The Swiss publisher Artemis Verlags AG has entered into partnership with London Architectural Press to form a new English-language outlet for books on architecture intended for an informed readership . |
| 15 | Similarly , twentieth-century feminists used the importance attached to motherhood to argue for an economic and sexual independence antithetical to the patriarchal attitudes that lay behind theories of sexual difference and maternalism . |
| 16 | During the talks the USA acknowledged the environmental concerns of South Pacific countries but did not respond to Forum calls for an immediate and significant reduction of greenhouse gas emissions . |
| 17 | This is dramatized in table 9.5 , which presents the results of setting each coefficient at plus or minus two standard errors in order to illustrate the potential range of estimates for expenditure needs for an authority ; it must be stressed that this simple procedure overstates the true variability , but we do not have available sufficient information to enable a better assessment . |