Example sentences of "for a [adj] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes , particularly for a straightforward search in a printed index , it will be sufficient to establish these concepts in the searcher 's mind . |
| 2 | This fits the student for a professional career in a wider range of applications . |
| 3 | The honours degree in Housing Studies provides both a broad-based education in the social sciences and intensive preparation for a professional career in housing . |
| 4 | Of a different nature was a proposal from Enfield College of Technology , the first such to be considered , for a part-time BA in Social Science for qualified teachers . |
| 5 | As for a cosy role in the family firm , forget it . |
| 6 | North had already thrashed out a democratic manifesto for a unified opposition in Nicaragua , the leaders and himself scribbling it out in a cramped hotel room in Miami ; at the hearings , he proudly compared it to the sweaty wranglings in Philadelphia over the Constitution . |
| 7 | Position papers continued to be drafted in the State Department in 1944–45 with preference being expressed for a unified administration in Korea as part of the trusteeship rather than the creation of military zones . |
| 8 | In simultaneous elections in Berlin on Dec. 2 — the first since 1946 for a unified administration in the city — the CDU led by Eberhard Diepgen won a landslide victory against the SPD-Alternative List ( AL ) coalition led by Walter Momper , which had ruled in West Berlin since the last election in January 1989 [ see pp. 36403 ; 36530 ] . |
| 9 | Like Abed before him , I reckoned Mazzin was hoping for a violent response in order to have an excuse to beat us up . |
| 10 | For a developing country in particular this might be a desirable outcome in the case of non-essential goods . |
| 11 | Labour MPs howled for a retrospective rebate in Scotland , where the poll tax came in last year . |
| 12 | However , the archaizing and more abstract beauty of Canova 's response to the figure had been subsumed beneath the increasing demand in all areas of art for a greater naturalism in representing the human form . |
| 13 | One of their main demands is for a greater say in policy-making and legislation governing Northern Ireland . |
| 14 | Hailed by Sir David Wilson , the Governor of Hong Kong , as " a good agreement for Hong Kong " , the memorandum was widely seen as the UK acceding to China 's demands for a greater say in Hong Kong 's affairs , although Sir David claimed that it would not give China a veto over the Hong Kong government . |
| 15 | Greater descriptive flexibility makes for a greater flexibility in the formulation of laws . |
| 16 | The local Parties , growing in strength , began to ask for a greater voice in decisions than was allowed under the 1918 constitution . |
| 17 | Particularly divisive at a parochial level was the stress placed by the bishops on the need for a greater reverence in the communion rite , and their determination that the portable communion tables , which had been used since Elizabethan times , should be replaced by altars permanently positioned at the east end of the chancel and separated from the body of the church by altar rails . |
| 18 | One thing which could account for a greater distinctiveness in memory of risky situations would be the idea that risky situations constitute a small number of rather unusual items among a large number of more similar ones . |
| 19 | What is possible for a large suburban congregation is out of the question for a tiny congregation in a rural situation . |
| 20 | The DES agreed to fund a pilot project for the ten months from October 1989 to July 1990. it aims to identify and recruit twenty German and French teachers for a ten-week course in the coming summer term . |
| 21 | Tension between Iraq and Kuwait came to the world 's attention in mid-July when Saddam Hussein launched a fierce attack on the policy of those Gulf states , principally Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates ( UAE ) , whose over-production of oil he blamed for a corresponding slump in world oil prices . |
| 22 | Although the North Korean government officially denied it , representatives of the Taiwanese Importers ' and Exporters ' Association claimed that arrangements for a planned visit in April 1990 had already been confirmed by North Korea . |
| 23 | HERITAGE Minister Peter Brooke is being asked to give financial backing to plans for a multi-cultural centre in Chester . |
| 24 | Boro battled well for a hard-earned point in a poor game and they remain six points behind Cambridge but with four games in hand . |
| 25 | There was simply no place for a communist renegade in the Cold War political climate of postwar France . |
| 26 | ‘ And I 'm equally sure , ’ McGann went on , ‘ that Bill must have thought us bishops blind to the potential for a Communist threat in this hemisphere … |
| 27 | The National Conference of the Communist Party , which met in Sheffield in October 1935 , passed a resolution which departed considerably from the slogan " For a Communist Group in Parliament " adopted at the Thirteenth Congress only eight months previously . |
| 28 | ‘ British Gas asked for a wide-ranging review in order to clarify our regulatory environment and develop a clear way ahead for the future . |
| 29 | It was built for a rich banker in the early sixteenth-century but is more renowned as the home of the Societa del Giardino , the oldest and most prestigious club in Milan which has used the palazzo since 1818 . |
| 30 | The message that again and again comes through the pages of history , is that humanity must arrange its political affairs in such a manner that there is always room for a religious life in some form for those who want it . |