Example sentences of "of a [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Thatcher , although she has criticised the Delors monetary union plan for being ‘ undemocratic , ’ is determined to try to exclude consideration of a bigger role for the European Parliament from the Rome Treaty review process . |
| 2 | This was not ‘ plausible deniability ’ , the provision of a believable cover for someone who already knew the facts ; it was , Poindexter agreed , ‘ absolute ’ deniability , ‘ the ability of the President to deny knowing anything about it , and be very truthful in that process . |
| 3 | While members have occasionally expressed surprise at the committee 's sudden appearance in the front line , their cooperation has demonstrated the value of a discreet forum for discussing and resolving difficult problems outside the disciplinary processes . |
| 4 | One year later there was some indication that the control sample carers were finding it harder than the action sample to talk in terms of a simple preference for home care . |
| 5 | It is n't invariable practice amongst conveyancers even to keep a third copy of a simple transfer for themselves ( but always keep one if it contains restrictions , or the grant or reservation of rights , etc , or if you will require one for your mortgagee 's solicitors ; normally one prepares top and carbon , both of which are sent to the seller 's conveyancers with a suggestion that the top copy , too , should be retained and used as the engrossment if its terms are approved . |
| 6 | Mankind seeks status even more avidly than wealth , and more self-corruptingly ; and intellectual affectation can be a darker sin than whatever vulgarities arise out of a simple greed for gain . |
| 7 | First , it forms the basis of a useful tool for studying relatively small , self-contained groups in more detail than is possible within a large-scale survey framework . |
| 8 | ( Exceptions to this include Allen ( 1987 ) who used a very basic implementation of a rule-based grammar for text-to-speech processing . ) |
| 9 | A police vehicle was damaged in the pursuit of a stolen car for thirty miles from Deddington in Oxfordshire to Milton Keynes . |
| 10 | ‘ You spoke of a moral landscape for murder , ’ she said , ‘ Could you expand on that for us ? ’ |
| 11 | The assumption — which is also contained in Devlin 's quasi-functionalist explanation of the role and ubiquity of a moral structure for any given society , that there is a basic consensus surrounding questions of morality — is something that was then , and is still now , widely held by those in particular who want to repeal or reform what they perceive to have been the ‘ permissive ’ legislative changes of the 1960s . |
| 12 | His advocacy of a minimal role for the military in politics , which in the past had been rejected by the upper echelons of ABRI , now became a topic of open discussion . |
| 13 | following the making of a relevant application for an intellectual property right , or |
| 14 | In Chapter 9 I attempt an outline of the framework of a regional plan for economic regeneration which is a ‘ democratic alternative ’ to the corporatist proposals of the Northern Regional Strategy Team , ( 1979 ) . |
| 15 | The way of working therefore should be to negotiate long term visitors with regions on the present ‘ bidding ’ system as this gave enough space to work through the Coordinators with the opportunity of a regional strategy for using the visitor . |
| 16 | I am in favour of a regional band for London , based on average house prices . |
| 17 | The opposition Co-ordinating Committee of Democratic Forces ( CFD ) on Sept. 22 demanded the establishment by Sept. 25 of a preparatory committee for a national conference . |
| 18 | We are not responsible for any additional measures which could be considered to be of a preventative nature for the future . |
| 19 | The family continued to play a significant part in Anglo-French affairs : in January 1317 , Jean , sire de Fiennes , wrote to Edward II as his loyal vassal in Ponthieu , informing him of a rumoured scheme for the partition of the kingdom of France on the death of Louis X. His motive was not entirely altruistic , for Fiennes was a chief ally and supporter of the rebellious Robert of Artois , and hoped for English aid in the form of ships with which to enter Calais and St Omer . |
| 20 | There is , after all , something of a biblical precedent for this point of view ; if the Church can not husband its talents wisely , its spiritual harvest will be correspondingly small . |
| 21 | What this condition of the theatre indicates is that the establishing of a singular text for many plays is extremely difficult . |
| 22 | Yet we are uncertain of a temporal context for the poem . |
| 23 | The existence of a firm strategy for continuing education may , in theory , preclude the need for re-entry programmes as they exist at present , and it is the job of the members of each National Board to align continuing education needs with the UKCC 's own policies regarding the maintenance and improvement of professional standards as laid down in current legislation . |
| 24 | Hull 's most important Humberside derby for years comes at the end of a sad week for the club which saw defeat by Widnes on Sunday , and the sacking of Noel Cleal as coach on Monday . |
| 25 | In the absence of a convincing case for the defence , we would undoubtedly require that the Indonesian authorities be seen to have cleaned up their act and that the New Tribes Mission be put out of business in South America and perhaps worldwide . |
| 26 | As Senna raced towards the victory he needed in Spain on Sunday , James Hunt , a driver familiar with the pressures of a late challenge for the championship , was saying Senna had no right to be on the track at all . |
| 27 | In its final Report , the Committee conceded the force of the argument in favour of a higher penalty for indecent assault . |
| 28 | The doctor had been requested , under the provisions of a recent Act for the treatment of mental deficiency , to furnish a report about the number of such inmates who were suitable for treatment in a separate institution — he was able to identify five such patients , whose ages ranged from 13 to 25 years . |
| 29 | The syndrome of dyspraxia of deaf children comprises that the child clearly suffers from dyspraxia or apraxia with dysrhythmia or arhythmia and that the child , his memory as such being normal , shows a typical profile of a strong memory for simultaneously presented visual data and a relatively weak one for successively presented visual data . |
| 30 | One does not get a sense of a strong need for support from parents to children to be reciprocated — certainly not in the short term , and possibly not in the long term either . |