Example sentences of "[adj] for a [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newark 's recently-completed Avro Anson C.19 VL348 has been short-listed for an award in the Scania Transport Trust Award Scheme . |
| 2 | It was n't right for a man in his position to be kept in the dark . |
| 3 | South 's hand did not look right for a rebid in no-trumps so , rather than explore with an ambiguous bid in the opponent 's suit , he decided to stress the quality of his own suit with Three Hearts . |
| 4 | ‘ it seems to me that it is not possible for a person in the position of the bank to exclude the discretion of the court , but one nevertheless starts from the position that the contractual position between the parties is that the costs will be paid on an indemnity basis . |
| 5 | With this level of distortion , it is not possible for a rise in the corporate tax to reduce ( w/r ) , and this illustrates how the existence of market imperfections may significantly affect the incidence of taxation . |
| 6 | It is therefore possible for a defendant in a negligence action to raise a defence of volenti non fit injuria , but consent to the risk in question can not be inferred merely from the other party 's knowledge of the purported exclusion . |
| 7 | Only if all new investment in the firm has to be financed from retained earnings is it possible for an increase in dividends to reduce net investment and thereby reduce the ability of the firm to deliver real income in the future . |
| 8 | As I am unable to call to discuss these with you in person during bank opening hours I should be grateful for a reply in writing which I can present to the Council at their next meeting on 2 April 1992 . |
| 9 | The figures were high for a county in which comital lordship had not been noticeably demanding ; the count 's fortifications should have been adequately defended . |
| 10 | However , early proposals [ see pp. 37931 ; 38022 ] that the two bodies should align ran into stiff opposition from neutral Ireland , from the UK and from the Netherlands , which maintained that the EC was unsuited for a role in European defence policy . |
| 11 | It was also , she supposed , foolish for a woman in times like these to walk about alone at night . |
| 12 | Despite a conspicuous absence of the merest shred of evidence that Nizan had " betrayed " the PCF in any sense other than resigning from the party itself , it was objectively impossible for a communist in postwar France to view Nizan in terms other than those of betrayal and treachery . |
| 13 | In the early years of the CNAA it was almost impossible for a course in engineering to gain approval unless it was a sandwich course : ‘ there was a big argument within CNAA when the first courses on the university pattern started to emerge ’ . |
| 14 | A recent bereavement may make it impossible for a participant in a drama class to join in a drama about the Plague of London or the death of Cordelia . |
| 15 | All seemed set for an experiment in unity . |
| 16 | When considering the form of review , it seems essential to differentiate between what is appropriate for a child in a temporary or therapeutic placement , and what is appropriate for a permanent family placement . |
| 17 | ‘ What the Archdeacon means is that the way in which priests are appointed means that the sort of questions which you are asking , while perfectly appropriate for an appointment in commerce or industry or indeed other professions , simply do n't apply in the Church . |
| 18 | His parents thought him too delicate for a life in agriculture and allowed a travelling tinker to take charge of him when he was eleven or twelve years old . |
| 19 | Geoff Mulcahy , Kingfisher chief executive , detailing the Woolworth , Comet and B&Q group 's £460million offer , said Dixons faced a ‘ bleak future ’ in its present form and he called the 120p a share he is bidding ‘ very serious for a business in serious decline . ’ |
| 20 | Peering through glass misted over with our breathing , I crawled over De Waal Drive , got lost for a while in the streets of Claremont , then found Lansdowne Road . |
| 21 | ‘ The Single Market demands that we define Europe , not the UK , as our domestic market and that we make it as easy for a customer in Turin , Munich or Nice to buy from us as one in Coventry or London . ’ |
| 22 | It can not have been easy for a man in his fifties to start afresh as an instrument-maker in London . |
| 23 | This was relatively easy for a surveyor in the days when the RIBA standard form was the only one in common use . |
| 24 | However , under section 15 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 it is lawful for a person in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute to attend at or near his own place of work ‘ for the purpose only of peacefully obtaining or communicating information , or of peacefully persuading any person to work or abstain from working . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I could let her serve her time to me , and make her fit for a job in any shop in Ireland , but we want more than that for her , do n't we ? ’ |
| 26 | They 'll possess particular skills in communications and be ambitious for a career in which commercial realities will be at least as important as scientific development . |
| 27 | This would be a useful feature if it were not for the fact that a certain amount of vaginal discharge is perfectly normal and natural for a woman in her reproductive years ; and what is more , this natural discharge is subject to a fair amount of variation depending on the stage of the menstrual cycle . |
| 28 | In SR E would be constant in the absence of any forces , while in Schwarzschild space–time E is constant for a body in free fall . |
| 29 | We paddled it all out by boat , put up our gear and at nine left for an hour in the pub . |
| 30 | All they 've got to go on is that she spent a lot of time lying on the sofa , and that 's hardly unusual for a lady in her time and circumstances . |