Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They seem likely to continue to do so even after the reserve policy has been replaced by an interim policy of providing maintained protection for a list of specific products with the potential to compete with foreign products . |
| 2 | But I thought the main concern would be finding the right building for a museum of this type , and that there would be no need to buy any pictures for it . |
| 3 | The council hopes the publicity will help its application for European funding for a project on the river . |
| 4 | Just hours after Mercury cut phone bills for domestic and small business customers , BT declared a freeze on the cost of all UK and international direct-dialled calls for a year . |
| 5 | There are some other restrictions affecting the choice of courses : the normal curriculum for a student registered for the M.Sc. |
| 6 | Are there staff identified with specific responsibility for a student welfare service ? |
| 7 | The collapse of the shogunate and the restoration of the Meiji throne was but one effect , from which a myriad of others flowed : the revival of Japanese nationalism and her imperial designs , the invasion of China , the florid plans for a Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere , the bombast and cruelty of the Pacific War , the creation in America of the atomic bomb , its eventual use over the two great cities of Kyushu , and Japan 's consequent defeat , post-war disgrace , ruin and decay . |
| 8 | Balding 's Beech Road appears to be on the right trail for a Champion double . |
| 9 | IN framing controversial proposals for a US energy tax , President Clinton gave a new lease of life to the British thermal unit , which the UK has abandoned in favour the joule based on the metric standards adopted in Europe . |
| 10 | He signed for Palace on 8 March 1962 and progressed through the Junior ranks for a couple of seasons . |
| 11 | Whatever happens , he concluded , ‘ we are surely about to witness the most momentous struggle for a country 's conscience that modern Africa has ever known . ’ |
| 12 | Deciding on the right level for a band depends on the policy ideas which characterize different agents . |
| 13 | Yet he was not at this stage prepared to risk open war on their behalf ; although he disliked the peace of 1328 he had neither the resources nor the general political support for a renewal of the Scottish war . |
| 14 | The five permanent members of the UN Security Council ( France , China , the Soviet Union , the United Kingdom and the United States ) held their sixth meeting on the Cambodian problem on Aug. 27-28 and worked out a possible framework for a solution . |
| 15 | There is scant support for a project that , if it goes ahead , can not fail to leave its mark on a remarkable stretch of untamed countryside . |
| 16 | Among them is the failure of second-vote support for a party to match up to its first-vote support . |
| 17 | ‘ Training to become a full-time responsibility for a member of staff ’ . |
| 18 | I was wounded in a demonstration and had to retire from political activities for a while to recuperate and another member was killed in the massacre , when the security forces dislodged the peaceful occupation of the Venezuelan Embassy . |
| 19 | The Rules of the Supreme Court make no specific provision for a contemnor being served with a copy of the committal order , but as I have mentioned an instruction has been issued by the Clerk of the Rules with the approval of the President of the Family Division which makes it the duty of the applicant 's solicitor to serve the committal order , but does not require personal service . |
| 20 | Hannah 's film was transmitted at 10.30 p.m. on Tuesday , 30 January 1973 , to an audience approaching five million — a very respectable rating for a documentary shown at a time when most people are either retiring for the night or thinking about it . |
| 21 | That 's better than investing money for a friend . |
| 22 | The main track on which they were travelling led due west for a while and then turned slightly north . |
| 23 | After overwhelming 202:60 vote in the European Parliament for a ban on cosmetic testing involving animals , fresh negotiations will be held between the assembly and the EC Commission to seek a compromise . |
| 24 | Miss McIntosh said her visit complemented work currently underway in the European Parliament for a directive seeking to raise the standards of animal care in EC zoos . |
| 25 | The Moroccan news media reacted unfavourably to a resolution passed at the Sept. 9-13 session of the European Parliament for a delegation to be sent to observe the ceasefire . |
| 26 | ‘ I could have gone to European clubs for a lot more money than I earn now , ’ he says . |
| 27 | The economic case for a devaluation of the CFA franc is growing in strength . |
| 28 | We watched its sedate progress for a while before turning into Grønfjorden and anchoring off Barentsburg . |
| 29 | The right contract for a project will depend largely on the system of building procurement being used , and it is useful to review here the systems commonly in use . |
| 30 | Recall that among the possible reasons for a loss of conditioned responding with a change of context was the generalization decrement that might be expected when the event designated by the experimenter as the CS is presented in a different context . |