Example sentences of "the [noun prp] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LET'S KNIFE ( Creation ) is the most bizarre thing you 'll hear all year : Nirvana meet the Shangri-Las for a dozen high energy throwaway thrash tunes with titles such as Flying Jelly Attack , Cycling Is Fun , I Am A Cat and Bear Up Bison . |
| 2 | The newsreader mentioned a child who had gone to the States for a life-saving operation , a vital double transplant that had never been done in Britain . |
| 3 | Regent International Hotels , which was recently acquired by Four Seasons , has returned to London — where it owned the Dorchester for a short while — to open the 309-room , Regent Hotel , Marylebone . |
| 4 | CHATAM can become the first horse since the great Arkle 27 years ago to land the Hennessy for a second successive year . |
| 5 | you 'll also find a host of inviting bars and restaurants practically on the doorstep of your hotel ; try for example the Shangri-La for a Chinese meal , or Shere-Kahn for delicious Indian cuisine . |
| 6 | A call to implement an earlier proposal for a blacks-only society , amended by the leadership , was defeated by 3,363,000 to 2,715,000 Black activists were heartened by the support of the TGWU for a blacks-only body . |
| 7 | And escalating repression by the Nazi State — according to one calculation , roughly one in every 1,200 Germans was arrested by the Gestapo for a political or religious ‘ offence ’ in 1944 — was a heavy deterrent to any ‘ deviant ’ activity . |
| 8 | He expected Mr Major to turn up at another party on Thursday night — even sneering : ‘ This is the vomit party , tomorrow 's is the cream ’ — but the Premier was flying across the Atlantic for a high-profile visit to Canadian leader Brian Mulroney . |
| 9 | Ironically enough , the main reason for the collective 's buoyant humour ( they 're all Harry Enfield jokes and Kenneth Williams double entendres ) is a forthcoming trip across the Atlantic for a five week make-or-break binge , headlining a package bill with — get this , Pop Kids — Bleach and Kingmaker ! |
| 10 | Agreement was announced on June 8 on funding from the World Bank and the IMF for a three-year structural adjustment programme to begin in mid-1990 . |
| 11 | Great Britain , for example , has two chambers — the House of Commons and the House of Lords , but the power of the House of Lords is restricted to the possibility of delaying legislation passed by the Commons for a short period and trying to make amendments to bills , if the government is prepared to accept them . |
| 12 | This was in part a response to the demand of Western governments and the UN for a complete restructuring of the entire CILSS system . |
| 13 | Apparently Ray still could n't bring himself to sell it , and instead donated it to a pond built by the Norwich section of the BKKS for a local Cheshire Home . |
| 14 | The dramatic display was staged by the BBC for a new series of schools programmes on the Vikings to be screened next year . |
| 15 | We call upon the BBC for a radical change of policy and demand programmes which build character instead of destroying it , which encourage and sustain faith in God and bring Him back to the heart of our family and national life . |
| 16 | Take to the Aire for a water-line view of England 's third largest city — Leeds . |
| 17 | In 548 they stayed in the Balkans for a whole year and destroyed many towns and fortresses , including the Byzantine centre of Lychnidus ( Ohrid ) . |
| 18 | In drawing comparisons between the state of credit marketing in the US and her , I am mindful that I have been in the UK for a long time and of that famous Bacon quote , ‘ Time is the greatest innovator ’ . |
| 19 | If a successful sponsorship deal is arranged , the Liberator will be based in the UK for a two year period , during which time it would be a major attraction at the various events marking the 50th Anniversary of the US 8th Air Force 's arrival in the UK . |
| 20 | Aquaria and cabinets can be sent anywhere in the UK for a small extra charge . |
| 21 | The initial low volume of stock option deals gave rise to doubts as to whether demand existed in the UK for a traded options market . |
| 22 | It emerged in late August that he had privately left the UK for a secret destination in Europe . |
| 23 | The XJ 40 had done 10,000 miles and he was glad of an excuse to take it back to the UK for a proper service . |
| 24 | The United Kingdom Parliamentary Human Rights Group Report , published on April 4 — the day the Dalai Lama arrived in the UK for a nine-day pastoral visit — and alleging that over 1,000,000 Tibetans had died between 1950 and 1984 as a direct result of Chinese rule , brought the same response . |
| 25 | The Mandela concert organisers eventually told Terry Wogan 's people that they were saving the GLHB for a special edition of Desert Island Discs , to be called Robben Island Discs . |
| 26 | The Princesse had insisted that they gather at the Waldorf for a light lunch . |
| 27 | The American cruised the Solent for a few days while Mark was tying up the loose ends , and returned to the States without paying another visit to his office . |
| 28 | ‘ Bear in mind that I gave my evidence after Blissett had been charged by the FA for a serious breach of the laws of the game — and the experienced commission of inquiry , which conducted a rigorous investigation into the incident , cleared him . |
| 29 | Among them was Steven Proctor , who was on his way to the Himalayas for a four week mountaineering holiday . |
| 30 | The SSCM for a clean W{211} surface and RSCM for an oxygen chemisorbed W{211} surface are shown in Fig. 4 . |