Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] for a [noun sg] " 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1 They seem likely to continue to do so even after the reserve policy has been replaced by an interim policy of providing maintained protection for a list of specific products with the potential to compete with foreign products .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 There is no explicit provision in the specific grant for an increase in that .
4 The council hopes the publicity will help its application for European funding for a project on the river .
5 Overall the farm provided 61% of the total income for an input of 69% of the family 's time .
6 There are some other restrictions affecting the choice of courses : the normal curriculum for a student registered for the M.Sc.
7 Are there staff identified with specific responsibility for a student welfare service ?
8 Balding 's Beech Road appears to be on the right trail for a Champion double .
9 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 . ’
10 Deciding on the right level for a band depends on the policy ideas which characterize different agents .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 Among them is the failure of second-vote support for a party to match up to its first-vote support .
15 He claimed that such ‘ unclear matters ’ had been eliminated following recent high-level Soviet-Indian talks , and cited Rajiv Gandhi to the effect that the principles of non-alignment ‘ provide a legal and political framework for an analysis of the complex and particular problems of peace and security in the Asian-Pacific region ’ .
16 ‘ Training to become a full-time responsibility for a member of staff ’ .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 That 's better than investing money for a friend .
20 The main track on which they were travelling led due west for a while and then turned slightly north .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 The economic case for a devaluation of the CFA franc is growing in strength .
25 We watched its sedate progress for a while before turning into Grønfjorden and anchoring off Barentsburg .
26 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 .
27 ‘ What seems now a cloud no bigger than a man 's hand could turn out to be yet another inflationary and political storm for a government that could do without either . ’
28 From Lloyd George 's Reconstruction Committee , set up in February 1917 , came strong support for a Ministry of Health and an extensive housing programme for the working classes , ideas supported later by Christopher Addison as Minister of Reconstruction .
29 Staff said that they felt more inclined to offer services if they were not assuming sole responsibility for an individual 's welfare but could ‘ share the burden ’ .
30 There was a strong case for an energy conservation programme , if only on psychological grounds .
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