Example sentences of "for a [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the non-Tory intelligentsia truly wants to do more than tinker in its own backyard , it must look for a route to power that can connect Cambridge with Basildon . |
| 2 | Er sometimes that has been known and it would be right to , for a youngster to sort of through their mother and father to take it back and say well look er can we have another one , but that would only be on a rare occasion , but if we 're given an assignment in the congregation then , especially in a |
| 3 | Blake was amazed at the discussion and how these men could talk about a whole planet in one conversation ; in his day it was not unusual for a conversation to centre solely on one part of London , and only in times of war was England ever considered as a single entity under threat . |
| 4 | The earlier plans of 1939 were considered inadequate and in 1951 Mr Robert Frater ARIBA was asked to provide plans for a church to seat about 386 . |
| 5 | I set the alarm clock for a quarter to midnight , and settled down for a couple of hours sleep . |
| 6 | No 4468 Mallard was being prepared for a return to steam for the 50th anniversary of its 1938 world record speed run . |
| 7 | The liberal centre considered the Manifesto less than satisfactory but sufficient grounds for a return to normality . |
| 8 | Liberals generally considered the Manifesto less than satisfactory but sufficient grounds for a return to normality . |
| 9 | A mass meeting of the Raybestos workers was then held at which workers agreed to return to work after being assured by union representatives that a safety investigation would take place at the factory and the findings would be made available as a precondition for a return to work . |
| 10 | Once it had been issued , moderate unions , including the Union of Railwaymen , called for a return to work . |
| 11 | The Solidarity leader Lech Walesa also appealed for a return to work . |
| 12 | After calling for a return to work they organised a series of campaigns , about censorship , the campaign for the eight hour working day . |
| 13 | The American people opted for a return to isolationism : in consequence , the League lacked the power and cohesion to curb the ambitions of the Axis powers . |
| 14 | In London , the Foreign Office called for a return to democracy , and EC talks have begun on concerted action . |
| 15 | Justin Lekhanya , the Chairman of the ruling Military Council , on Feb. 23 , 1990 , announced a programme of political and economic reforms which included the immediate formation of two task forces headed by Foreign Minister Tom Thabane and Finance Minister Evaristus Retselisitsoe Sekhonyana respectively , the first to recommend a timetable for a return to democracy by June 1992 and the other to seek ways of streamlining expenditure and achieving efficiency in government or semi-state-owned enterprises . |
| 16 | An opposition communiqué released on May 20 , however , expressed a willingness to hold talks with the government in order to pave the way for a return to democracy . |
| 17 | They called for a return to democracy in Peru following the April presidential coup [ see pp. 38846-47 ] and declared themselves " profoundly preoccupied " by the political situation in Haiti and Cuba . |
| 18 | She could n't help but wonder why fate had insisted that these two powerful men should have insisted on using her to gain their own ends — her father for a return to power and motor racing , Ace for sex , because she now realised he 'd wanted her all along . |
| 19 | Detailed analysis is ignored in favour of a sustained defence of " realism " in literature : " I call for a return to reality " , Aragon repeats six times in as many pages . " |
| 20 | MR JOHN PATTEN , the new Education Secretary , has begun his term in office with a passionate condemnation of the godlessness of society and an appeal for a return to belief in good and evil . |
| 21 | This religion often proves a great attraction to the romantic who is tired of concrete and high-power technology , and yearns for a return to nature . |
| 22 | It may seem strange to suspect such a man of inflation — the psychoanalyst 's term for a tendency to grandeur , the obverse of a patient 's self-denigration and depression . |
| 23 | On Nov. 21 the right-wing Freedom Party of Austria ( FPÖ ) led by the populist Jörg Haider approved a 12-point popular initiative , " Austria first " , for a halt to immigration . |
| 24 | For Labour , accommodation to the changing mood meant adopting the essentially green idea of assessing the environmental costs of growth and working them into the balance sheets ( which the Tories are also adopting ) , but it did not mean following the Greens in calling for a halt to growth . |
| 25 | Perhaps just for a while to tide you over a particularly bad crop of bills . |
| 26 | The route follows the B3004 for a while to East Worldham , turning right along a minor road and bearing left to head up through Monk Wood and on to Alton where it ends at the railway station . |
| 27 | By biding his time in the immediate aftermath of Mao 's death , he could prepare for a rise to power in the CCP . |
| 28 | We ask guests to complete a short , quality-related questionnaire in return for a donation to charity , so we get a willing and very satisfactory response . ’ |
| 29 | Queen , or whether it was permissible for a court to sentence on the basis of the offender 's previous record , for which , as Ashworth ( 1990 ) has pointed out , there is also Court of Appeal authority . |
| 30 | Tha , well he went to Spain for a month to sort of recuperate . |