Example sentences of "the way for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that was not the way for a modern police officer to speak , Lane felt . |
| 2 | It would mean our new South Ayrshire hospital leaving the NHS as we know it and would pave the way for a two-tier health service in Ayrshire . ’ |
| 3 | So Nixon sent Henry Kissinger secretly to China to open the way for a personal visit from the President and thus , for the first time since 1949 , to recognize the Communist government in that country . |
| 4 | MOVES by the US to introduce an energy tax could clear the way for a similar measure by the European Community , according to Sir Leon Brittan , the external trade commissioner , writes Frank Frazer . |
| 5 | Some senior party sources believe that a ‘ kamikaze ’ candidate could attract as many as 70 votes from disaffected MPs — paving the way for a fully-fledged contest next year . |
| 6 | Warsaw Pact deputy foreign ministers and military commanders meeting in Prague agreed on Oct. 27 to cut 490 tanks and 400 artillery pieces from their conventional arms holdings , clearing the way for a European arms treaty due to be signed in Paris in November . |
| 7 | The Clerides camp said a Vassiliou victory would open the way for a communist takeover , while supporters of Mr Vassiliou accused Mr Clerides of ties to the extreme right that led the 1974 coup seeking union with Greece . |
| 8 | The changed stance on VD paved the way for a partial reconciliation between purity feminists and medics over the twin issues of morality and health . |
| 9 | On Nov. 1 the leu was devalued by a further 60 per cent and fixed at US$1.00=35 lei , a move designed to pave the way for a partial convertibility of the Romanian currency which the government planned to introduce in January 1991 . |
| 10 | But the big ITV stations are lobbying for all restrictions to be lifted , which would pave the way for a Great North TV spanning the country . |
| 11 | The bigger TV companies are now lobbying for further relaxations in the rules which would pave the way for a Great North TV station stretching from coast to coast and , inevitably , providing a diluted regional service . |
| 12 | Dawson 's first book , The Age of the Gods ( 1928 ) , subtitled A Study in the Origins of Culture in Prehistoric Europe and the Ancient East , began by noting that ‘ During the last thirty years the great development of archaeological and anthropological studies has prepared the way for a new conception of history . ’ |
| 13 | The earlier chapters of this book have shown how events and a growing sense of disillusion with many old policies paved the way for a new approach . |
| 14 | This downfall opens the way for a new social system in both cases . |
| 15 | Some people think the parliamentary election should be brought forward from 1993 , to give the government legitimacy and to open the way for a new president — Mr Lech Walesa ? — in place of General Jaruzelski . |
| 16 | The 1930 Act also opened the way for a new wave of river clearance . |
| 17 | The collapse of post-war attempts to reconstruct the world economy in 1929–31 opened the way for a new wave of economic nationalism in Britain . |
| 18 | Defeat followed by foreign rule paved the way for a new receptivity to foreign influences in general . |
| 19 | On the first day of his visit he and Chancellor Kohl signed a 20-year Treaty on Good-neighbourliness , Partnership and Co-operation , which had been initialled in Moscow on Sept. 13 [ see p. 37718 ; for text see p. 37835 ] and which , Kohl said , " rules off the painful chapters of our past and clears the way for a new beginning " . |
| 20 | There wo n't be a referendum in this country … the wide-ranging Treaty , which paves the way for a new currency and a common defence policy , will be debated in Parliament . |
| 21 | The Sejm accepted the most contentious point , a deficit of about £3.4 billion , clearing the way for a new credit deal with the International Monetary Fund . |
| 22 | Card 's appointment also appeared to open the way for a comprehensive reshuffle of White House staff following a management review implemented by Skinner . |
| 23 | The decision , following a public inquiry in February , clears the way for a controversial gipsy transit camp which has been the subject of a long-running dispute between Warrington Borough and Cheshire County councils . |
| 24 | The decision , following a public inquiry in February , clears the way for a controversial gipsy transit camp . |
| 25 | The ruling in Strasbourg yesterday that the complaints are admissible clears the way for a future hearing before the European Court of Human Rights in up to two years ' time . |
| 26 | The Conservatives saw the meeting as a chance to improve relations with a foreign power and have claimed that the talks may have paved the way for a future visit to Darlington by a South African trade delegation . |
| 27 | The culmination of this process was the initiative which paved the way for a Soviet commitment to Cuba : the issuing , in late November 1959 , of an invitation to Anastas Mikoian — then in Mexico — to visit the island . |
| 28 | On Monday 27 July 1778 the first major action of the new war was fought some 70 miles [ 112 km ] west of Ushant , and proved indecisive , but convinced Louis XIV 's chief minister , the Comte de Vergennes , that he needed Spanish help to clear the way for a successful invasion . |
| 29 | A Denmark deal could pave the way for a successful second Danish referendum next May . |
| 30 | The company sees China , where AT&T recently signed a memo of understanding opening the way for a wide variety of deals as ‘ a huge opportunity ’ for AT&T although prospects depend on political stability and the country 's continued ability to obtain most-favoured-nation trade status . |