Example sentences of "[noun sg] for an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | EIAS signed a contract for an initial batch of twenty IL-103s at the Farnborough Air Show . |
| 32 | John Cunningham in ‘ The Guardian ’ , referring to coverage of the mortar bomb attack on Whitehall wrote : ‘ Whitehall 's scariest 60 minutes proved to be one of radio 's finest hours , effortlessly making the case for an all news channel ’ . |
| 33 | Keeton 's Case for an International University ( 1941 ) and unswerving interest in legal education and the future of the legal profession in England ( University of Cincinatti Law Review , vol 25 , 1956 ) deserve to be mentioned as facets of a wider concern . |
| 34 | " Is n't there a case for an official police search ? " |
| 35 | The Court , however , found on July 29 that there was no case for an interim ruling against the bridge , since Denmark had given assurances that there would be no obstruction of the channel before end-1994 , by which time the Court would expect to have completed its full consideration of the case . |
| 36 | Socialism , however , had been repudiated at the polls even more decisively than Protection , and there seemed to be a stronger case for an anti-socialist coalition composed of the Conservative and Liberal Parties than for a Free Trade one . |
| 37 | Historians and political scientists like Arthur Schlesinger and Clinton Rossiter repeatedly made the case for an all-powerful president well able to provide effective leadership not only in international affairs , but on the domestic front as well . |
| 38 | They allow the English ministries to make a case for an overall allocation for housing , health , roads and so on , the Scottish ( and , where relevant , the Welsh ) departments putting in a — bid for a share of these functional budgets based on the special needs of Scottish or Welsh housing , roads or water resources . |
| 39 | A petition can not be heard until at least fourteen days have elapsed since the petition was served on the debtor and the supervisor of a voluntary arrangement ( r 6.18(1) ) unless it appears that the debtor has absconded or the court thinks it a proper case for an expedited hearing , or the debtor consents ( r 6.18(2) ) . |
| 40 | Parliamentary committments include being Shadow Defence Spokesmen on Northern Ireland and promoting the case for an elected House of Lords . |
| 41 | I 've got a large carrying case for an electronic organ keyboard er I want to sell , it 's it 'll take a keyboard erm forty one inches long by forty inches wide and four and a half inches deep and it 's all sort of shaped inside with the lining to the shape of the keyboard and nice strong box . |
| 42 | The costings episode once again highlights the case for an independent commission on council reform . |
| 43 | A fairly convincing case for an imperious premiership could be assembled even before Heseltine 's ‘ grand remonstrance of protest ’ , as the Observer called it . |
| 44 | There is plenty of lore and legend from Whitehall and Westminster to buttress the case for an imperious premiership . |
| 45 | Free admission for an accompanying organiser/guide . |
| 46 | Such new procedures could allow for longer debates , perhaps in Committee , with the ability to amend regulations and with provision for an effective vote to take place in Committee . |
| 47 | There is no legal provision for an independent chairman , 50 per cent . |
| 48 | • To provide strong pro-active editorial direction for an existing network of field editors . |
| 49 | when you 've got a budget for an oncoming year , assuming you and I are here together in November ninety three and we 're preparing a budget up till November ninety four , can you ever have precise figures which will be accurate to the last pound ? |
| 50 | For a new chancellor , presenting a budget for an unpopular government , it was the best he could do . |
| 51 | Setting up of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell had been agreed in October 1945 ; approval to build the first British atomic pile for the production of plutonium had been given in December ; the Chiefs of Staff had stated their requirement for a British manufactured atomic bomb in January 1946 ; William Penney ( later Sir William ) had begun to plan the Atomic Weapons Section of the Armaments Research Establishment , of which he was Director , in mid-1946 ; the Air Ministry placed its first requisition for an atomic bomb on the Ministry of Supply in August ; and Lord Portal , the wartime Chief of Air Staff , who had become Controller of Atomic Energy in the Ministry of Supply , sought a mandate from the Prime Minister to set atomic bomb development in train during the autumn of 1946 . |
| 52 | ‘ We 've always done it this way ’ is as daft an excuse for an industrial manufacturing process which has become fossilised as it is for saying that fossils have a life of their own . |
| 53 | also i think players like Palmer , Pallister and Adams will see some big trouble with slick hollenders tomorrow — if they prove me wrong i will be happy : i hope for an english victory — but most of all a norw. point against Poland . |
| 54 | Plan for shorter days and lower temperatures , with the west wetter than the rest — but there 's always hope for an Indian Summer . |
| 55 | He works as a driver for an electric animal vet . |
| 56 | ‘ Councils are supposed to provide sites for them but they do n't , ’ I protested , feeling a sudden sympathy for an oppressed minority . |
| 57 | ALAN DAVIES was being sincere when he expressed his sympathy for an Irish team exposed in this record home crushing as second rate . |
| 58 | Derry went to Croke Park for an All Ireland semi-final meeting with Meath and were well beaten . |
| 59 | Now next in Shearer 's sights are Premier League leaders Norwich who visit Ewood Park for an all-ticket clash on Saturday . |
| 60 | The committee has agreed to approve negotiations with Ipswich stores to base the Community Mobile Library in a supermarket car park for an experimental evening session . |