Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Swiss Alps are now our destination where we head for Lucerne for a one night stop . |
| 2 | The Federal Assembly on July 5 re-elected Vaclav Havel as President of Czechoslovakia for a further period of two years . |
| 3 | AC Milan , European Cup winners in 1989 and 1990 , underlined the strength of their challenge this season with a 4–0 win over Slovan Bratislava of Czechoslovakia for a 5–0 aggregate triumph . |
| 4 | AC Milan , European Cup winners in 1989 and 1990 , underlined the strength of this season 's challenge with a 4-0 win over Slovan Bratislava of Czechoslovakia for a 5-0 aggregate triumph . |
| 5 | My father and mother would hunt the highways and byways of Leicestershire for a good pork pie with that particularly rich , crispy crust . |
| 6 | As captain of Surrey for a dozen seasons , Fender was expert at making bricks without straw or , to be more precise , winning matches without bowlers on perfect Oval pitches . |
| 7 | On Dec. 30 the Council elected Burhanuddin Rabbani as first President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan for a two-year term . |
| 8 | A hundred warplanes were scouring the east coast of Scotland for a vanished prototype Vickers Wellesley bomber whose crew of three had ‘ sandwiches and coffee sufficient for a 12-hour flight ’ . |
| 9 | The walk follows a winding road out of Ballycastle for a short while , but it is worth branching off at the sign for Kinbane Castle . |
| 10 | In 1952 a scheme ( known as ROBOT ) was devised by the Treasury and the Bank of England for a floating rate of exchange for sterling and for the full convertibility of the currency subject to the funding of 80 per cent of the sterling balances held by non-dollar countries . |
| 11 | Dallas-based BancTec Inc has won a $1.7m order from the Bank of England for a stand-alone check clearing system : the Old Lady will use three BancTec 5500 document transports and the associated peripherals in its London clearing centre . |
| 12 | Er , here the Policy and Resources Committee also consider that only brought on capital which again issue guidelines which will be reviewed , at the end of January for a final erm , proposal in February . |
| 13 | Then , obviously wanting to leave us alone , our friend said that he had to go to the village of Lalatta for a short time ; he would be back in twenty minutes , by which time I would have to start making my way back to Lagrimone . |
| 14 | It would then be replaced by The Prince of Wales 's Own Regiment of Yorkshire for a further six months . |
| 15 | It thus appears most unlikely that Fahreddin Acemi could have held the kadilik of Edirne for a significant period and much more likely that he never held it at all ; and in this respect , in his not holding a kadilik simultaneously with the Muftilik , Fahreddin Acemi seems not only to differ from his predecessors but also to resemble all his successors in the office of Mufti . |
| 16 | Hope then made what was to be his last appeal to the House of Commons for a Gothic Foreign Office , as he was to be out of Parliament from May 1859 until 1865 , when the present building was being built . |
| 17 | On the following Monday , a letter in The Times from ‘ Foreign Office ’ claimed that there was little support in the House of Commons for a classical design , to which Coningham replied on the Thursday that ‘ the great majority of the architectural profession ’ have concluded that Gothic was not appropriate . |
| 18 | ( I recently paid five packs of Marlboro for a charming , framed watercolour of Arbat Street in Moscow ; oils start at a carton . ) |
| 19 | Rafael Leonardo Callejas was inaugurated as President of Honduras for a four-year term on Jan. 27 , 1990 . |
| 20 | ACL , together with Hapag Lloyd , has used the Port of Liverpool for a joint North Atlantic container service since 1987 when the two lines reached an agreement to share cargo space on each other 's vessels . |
| 21 | It adopted the Charter of Paris for a New Europe and a Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe ( CFE ) . |
| 22 | At their final session on Nov. 21 , summit leaders formally inaugurated a " new era of democracy , peace and unity in Europe " by signing the Charter of Paris for a New Europe . |
| 23 | When the results of the first ballot were announced Thatcher was in Paris attending meetings for the signature of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe and of the Charter of Paris for a New Europe [ see pp. 37838-39 ] . |
| 24 | ( The new FRY laid claim to the former Yugoslavia 's diplomatic representation abroad , and undertook to continue its non-aligned status , as well as to be guided by the CSCE 's 1990 Charter of Paris for a New Europe — for which see p. 37838 . ) |
| 25 | Over 800 Libyans who sailed for Naples in a former cruise liner to mark the 78th anniversary on Oct. 26 of the invasion of Libya by Italy in 1911 , were not allowed to disembark ; however , a group of some 250 Libyans visited the Italian island of Ustica for a commemorative ceremony . |
| 26 | Making sense of God for a second time |
| 27 | Mr Cameron-Webb , on whose syndicates investors such as tennis star Virginia Wade lost millions of pounds , can still appeal directly to the House of Lords for a fresh hearing . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , Himont , also a part of the Ferruzzi-Montedison group , signed a letter of intent with Showa Denko of Japan for a technological and production joint venture in Japan in the speciality polymer sector . |
| 29 | The wide acceptance of the positive value of collective action , typical of Italy for a long time [ which ] meant a well-established tradition existed for mobilising community support . |
| 30 | This was the thinking which lay behind the Bonnefous Plan , named after Edward Bonnefous , who was the main architect in the Council of Europe for a European Transport Authority linked to the Council . |