Example sentences of "for a [adj] [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The average labour input for a part-time farm was 1,752 hours , or 0.75 of a man-year : some of this would be accounted for by contract work carried out by the machinery group . |
| 2 | Tales of this sort continued to emerge ; in early 1989 , for example , The Times reported a secret programme on the part of Iraq to build nuclear warheads for a strategic missile being developed simultaneously with technical assistance from Pakistan and finance from Saudi Arabia . |
| 3 | In Chapter 5 the equation for a straight line was given as : y = mx + c where m is the slope and c is the point where the line cuts the y axis . |
| 4 | Concern over whether the vessel could be made completely safe almost led to the board 's plans for a pressurised-water reactor being dropped altogether two years ago . |
| 5 | So the memory has created a situation where you 're looking for a planned intention was developing and I and suc suc suc and I was successful . |
| 6 | While the principles for a Catholic ecumenism were formulated principally in the decree specifically devoted to this , all the other main documents of the Council — most notably the two dogmatic constitutions and the Declaration on Religious Freedom — were profoundly affected by this concern . |
| 7 | " Open " meetings of any of the Anonymous Fellowships are there for all to observe who wish to do so and it is a scientific and academic disgrace that experience of this successful method of treatment for a major disease is not a compulsory ( or even an acknowledged ) part of standard undergraduate or postgraduate medical curricular . |
| 8 | In English the normal word order for a transitive clause is Subject-Verb-Object ( SVO ) , i.e. " The dog bit the child " . |
| 9 | From the cheetahs ' point of view the mean annual temperature does not get systematically better or worse as the years go by , except in so far as any change for a well-adapted animal is a change for the worse . |
| 10 | Hopes for a dispassionate inquiry were quickly dashed . |
| 11 | The need for a verifying procedure is not displaced by the existence of legal rules for the conduct of police investigations . |
| 12 | Macpherson has argued convincingly that it was in the context of just such a society that the case For a representative democracy was initially accepted , first as a logical requirement to protect acquisitive , self-interested and conflicting individuals ( from rapacious governments and from one another ) and second to establish and nurture a free market economy ( MacPherson , 1977 ) . |
| 13 | The normal daily routine for a convicted prisoner was constructed as follows : |
| 14 | However , the second criterion for a lexical unit was that it should be ‘ at least one word ’ . |
| 15 | The weighted average cost of capital for a levered firm is the weighted average of the post-tax costs of equity and debt using the proportions of equity and debt in the balance sheet as weights : . |
| 16 | Cooking for a healthy heart is easy and just as delicious as doing things the ‘ coronary ’ way . |
| 17 | The figures for black youngsters excluded indefinitely and for a fixed period were also above average . |
| 18 | Thus s27 of the Partnership Act states : ( 1 ) Where a partnership entered into for a fixed term is continued after the term has expired , and without any express new agreement , the rights and duties of the partners remain the same as they were at the expiration of the term , so far as is consistent with the incidents of a partnership at will . |
| 19 | See also Derby and Co Ltd v Weldon ( No 8 ) [ 1990 ] 3 All ER 762. 2.3 Limited purpose of disclosure There is a large body of authority in support of the proposition that information which is disclosed for a limited purpose is received under an obligation of confidence and can not be used or disclosed otherwise than for that purpose . |
| 20 | Some find great benefit in identifying a small group of staff who for a limited period are assigned to a relief pool , for the sole purpose of filling unexpected gaps in staffing or adding strength to a ward team at times of peak workload . |
| 21 | The wage bill for a certain week was £3537.50 . |
| 22 | A rates reduction for a certain period is inadequate to compensate for the great disruption that was caused to people seeking to make a living in that area — people who do not have the wherewithal or the ability to use the court system against the Minister . |
| 23 | Mr Huismans , who attended the Tencel plant opening in Mobile on December 2 , said : ‘ The potential for a real breakthrough is there . |
| 24 | The potential for a real breakthrough is there . |
| 25 | The maximum amount for a protected deposit was increased to £20,000 . |
| 26 | A good place for a separate cubicle is in a corner , because two of the necessary walls already exist , and only have to tiled . |
| 27 | During prolonged illumination of Drosophila photoreceptors , this receptor potential is maintained but decays in transient receptor potential ( trp ) mutants in which the calcium influx component necessary for a maintained response is missing . |
| 28 | As was seen in Part I , while some claimants would qualify for the ordinary rate of benefit , others would be eligible for the long-term rate , which for a married couple was valued at 25 per cent higher than the ordinary rate . |
| 29 | One evening Finck proclaimed that a piece of music that Tiller had composed for a skipping-rope routine was dull and lifeless and that neither he nor the Girls could do a thing with it . |
| 30 | In Brandenburg-Prussia Frederick II suggested in 1776 that young men fitted for a diplomatic career be sent , on leaving university , as secretaries to the Prussian missions in Vienna , London , Stockholm and St Petersburg ( in that order of preference ) . |