Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] for an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nowhere is the art of the Designer needed more than when a script calls for an entirely new world to be created , as was so often the case in Doctor Who . |
| 2 | Er , I had a , a card to go for an X-ray . |
| 3 | A CROWD of people fought with police officers as they tried to stop a council bailiff taking a car to pay for an outstanding poll tax bill , a court was told yesterday . |
| 4 | Perhaps it is a question asking for an answer … |
| 5 | They also have a right to ask for an interview , usually with an educational psychologist who is , in most cases , responsible for advising the local Education Authority advisors on special education about particular children . |
| 6 | erm not only that , but erm whereas in the past it 's tended to be at the prerogative of the education people , as it were , the teachers and the heads and the educational psychologists , to make the initial moves in categorization or making a statement , now the parents have a right to ask for an assessment , so perhaps in your case to your question it would have been yes , you could have in fact have erm initiated the moves . |
| 7 | Perhaps the replacement of the flawed philosophy which permits the best batsmen in a team to bat for an unlimited number of deliveries , but restricts the number of overs the best bowlers in a side can send down ? |
| 8 | Those may or may not lead to training or jobs but once a person registers for an interview they are taken off the jobless total . |
| 9 | What a price to pay for an Imperial whim . |
| 10 | But because exploration costs represent barely a fifth the total North Sea spending of about £10 billion , this may not be considered too heavy a price to pay for an attempt to switch activity towards developing some of the finds already made or maximising the returns from fields already in production . |
| 11 | At the Black Sea Summit on June 25 [ see p. 38980 ] , after the first presidential negotiations on the Dnestr issue between Moldova , Russia , Ukraine and Romania , a communiqué called for an immediate ceasefire . |
| 12 | A petition calling for an inquiry into the allegations was signed by 15,118 people and a delegation headed by Raymond Wolseley of the Junior Chamber of Commerce went to Stormont to plead , vainly , for a change of policy . |
| 13 | PARENTS at one of Scotland 's largest state schools are collecting names for a petition to call for an opt-out ballot . |
| 14 | He looked servile , Albert said happily to himself — not like a man of command passing on old clothes at all ; more like a foot-man waiting for an end of his master 's good-byes . |
| 15 | Clearly , a member of parliament who could take the foul-mouthed uncle William far from the laird of Craigie 's children might legitimately expect the memory of such a favour to persist for an election or two . |
| 16 | Norway and the Soviet Union agreed on Dec. 15 , 1989 , on the terms of a treaty providing for an exchange of information on civilian and military accidents at sea outside their territorial waters . |
| 17 | An assignment requires A and B to be parties to an agreement and A , without B's consent , to transfer rights to X. The Vienna Convention is silent on the assignment of treaty rights , but it seems an evident consequence of State sovereignty that where a treaty provides for an assignment it should be enforceable . |
| 18 | Kevin Ottaway would have his head stuck in a book studying for an Open University degree . |
| 19 | Similarly , after the implementation of the allowances , the Cooperative Women 's Guild , an organisation of working-class women within the Cooperative Movement which had originally been among the strongest supporters of the campaign for family allowances ( Lewis , 1980 ) , defeated a resolution calling for an increase in the amount of the allowance at their annual Congress in 1951 ( Gaffin and Thoms , 1983 , p. 161 ) . |
| 20 | I do not claim to have my hon. Friend 's detailed knowledge , but I remember my attitude when the Council of Europe recently passed a resolution calling for an armed intervention force in Yugoslavia under the aegis of the United Nations . |
| 21 | A poorly attended meeting of Arab League Foreign Ministers issues a resolution calling for an immediate Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait . |
| 22 | The European Parliament on Feb. 14 approved a resolution calling for an end to " the deplorable situation of human rights abuses " in Guatemala and expressing concern at the lack of progress in investigating abuses . |
| 23 | Thus , when a doctor asks for an X-ray or path lab test , or prescribes drugs , or decides that a patient should remain in hospital for a further two days , he is making a financial as well as a clinical decision . |
| 24 | If such covenants are mixed with negative covenants , which appear on the Register , or if they are contained in a document that is bound up in the certificate , they will be apparent , and a conveyancer acting for an original covenantor who is selling should peruse these covenants , providing in the contract for a covenant of indemnity against breach of any positive covenants by the buyer ( see below ) ; ( see special condition K , 34 ) . |
| 25 | Here the helicopter spotted a crowd gathering for an illegal rave in Buckinghamshire . |
| 26 | A conceivable problem for the Solo is its price — £39,850 is a lot to pay for an unknown quantity . |
| 27 | On top of this BR now has to find an extra £100m a year to pay for an unnecessarily large safety programme , one result of the Clapham rail crash . |
| 28 | Author of The Making of a Counterculture argues for an ‘ ecopschology ’ that reconciles the needs of people and of the planet . |
| 29 | ‘ Particulars of Offence : [ The respondent ] on 17 September 1990 dishonestly and with a view to gain for himself or another , or with intent to cause loss to another , falsified a document required for an accounting purpose , namely , a computer generated sales invoice , by making an entry therein which was or may have been misleading , false or deceptive in a material particular in that it purported to show that a discount of 70 per cent . |
| 30 | Many years ago there was an advertisement which showed a couple dressed for an evening out , with the caption , ‘ You look tired , ’ he said , and spoilt her evening . ’ |