Example sentences of "a proposal for " in BNC.

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1 A proposal for constitutional reform to allow a national plebiscite on the reintroduction of the death penalty in Brazil , for kidnappings , burglaries and rapes resulting in the victim 's death , was approved by a Congressional Commission of the House of Deputies in December 1990 .
2 The County Arms at Blaby was subject to a proposal for ‘ theming ’ as a Beefeater steakhouse some years ago , which was rejected by the local authority with support from the Thirties Society although the building is not listed .
3 A PROPOSAL for a referendum on the future of US military bases in the Philippines has paved the way for the possibility of keeping them there .
4 NEW YORK ( Reuter ) — El Salvador 's President , Alfredo Cristiani , announced in a speech to the UN that he would make a proposal for a ceasefire in his country 's 10-year-old civil war at a meeting with FMLN rebels in two weeks ' time .
5 Mr Patten will also outline the forthcoming ‘ green Bill ’ , underlining the Government 's commitment to environmental protection in the wake of his decision to reject a proposal for a new town at Foxley Wood , Hampshire .
6 The fact that the RSS is even considering a proposal for an independent watchdog is interpreted by academics and scientists as highly significant , as the organisation typically projects a reserved and conservative image .
7 There 's a proposal for The Thames Story , with tourists on Tudor barges sailing down a river in a rebuilt railway station at the gates of Hampton Court Palace .
8 There 's a proposal for the Bounty to land at a vast shopping centre planned at Thurrock .
9 A quarter of a century later , when Mr Gorbachev was feeling reform-minded , it was a head of department at TSEMI , Stanislav Shatalin , who drafted the ‘ 500-day plan ’ , a proposal for sweeping free-market reforms .
10 Paddy Ashdown will write to Mr Kinnock this week with a proposal for an all-party commission to examine electoral reform .
11 If today 's brinkmanship backfires on Mr Yeltsin , he will almost certainly put to the popular vote the future of his reforms and a proposal for a constitution that would weaken parliament 's powers .
12 It says it hopes to formulate a proposal for the holders in due course .
13 On 21 April I sent to you a letter and a copy of a proposal for the above tape , to your address ( as I have written it above ) , but yesterday received this package back marked as not known at this address .
14 2 ) I also met Diana England who teaches at IH in Lisbon and who wants to put up a proposal for a Resource Book on Spelling .
15 Shortly after the Coalisland — Dungannon march , NICRA was approached by the DHAC with a proposal for a march in Derry .
16 This was a proposal for a loose federation of locally based groups ; NICRA , however , was a centralised organisation based mainly in Belfast .
17 Those cases are where the matter or transaction in relation to which the offence was committed , was a contract or a proposal for a contract with , amongst others , a public body ; or a sub-contract to execute any work comprised in such a contract .
18 Gradually these discussions developed into a proposal for an action-research project ( in the sense of an action project which would be monitored and evaluated ) which would provide enhanced home support to dementia sufferers , partly through the employment of extra paid carers .
19 These broad themes taken together led us to put forward a proposal for a anew divorce law in our book Grounds for Divorce .
20 Accordingly , in December 1988 , the Commission issued a proposal for a Directive on takeovers , which it amended in September 1990 .
21 A PROPOSAL for a first floor extension at 2 Crossways Road in Grayshott has been refused by district planners .
22 A PROPOSAL for the erection of a bungalow with garage on land adjoining Rosebury in Soldridge Road , Medstead has been refused by district planners .
23 A proposal for a Private Member 's Bill may emanate from the Member himself , or may have been urged upon him by another Member or Members , or by an outside pressure or interest group .
24 Whilst the department will be the immediate source of a proposal for a Bill , it will not necessarily be the mediate source .
25 It puts into operation on a more comprehensive scale a proposal for English teaching pedagogy that I myself put forward , speculatively , as appropriate for the Indian context ( Widdowson 1968 ) .
26 A proposal for the restructuring of Heron International was presented to its banks and bondholders .
27 A proposal for a three year integrated study of the Cheshire Basin to start in 1991/92 will lead to the production of three dimensional models of the development of the basin and the genesis of metalliferous mineralisation .
28 Contributions to a proposal for the production of a geochemical atlas of western Europe , including an inventory of regional geochemical surveys of western Europe and a summary of the vertical distribution of trace elements in floodplain sediments in the United Kingdom , were prepared for the WEGS Working Group .
29 Meetings of the Working Group in Prague in August 1990 and Athens in October 1990 were attended , and a proposal for a research project to evaluate the usefulness of floodplain sediments as a low-density geochemical sampling medium was drawn up .
30 Japan 's Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications says it is planning to build an administrative network that will link the local area networks used in government offices across the country , but the plan is still in its embryonic stages ; at the same time the ministry is studying a proposal for a fibre to the home project that plans to get Japanese households connected up by 2015 ; total infrastructure costs are estimated at about $256,000m .
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