Example sentences of "for the [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 WASHINGTON , D.C. The new acting chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts , Republican Anne-Imelda Radice , has articulated a non-confrontational course for the embattled federal agency .
2 While at Howard University he had taken up a position as a consultant on Caribbean affairs , this led him into full-time work for the Anglo-American Caribbean Commission , where in 1948 , he became its Deputy Chairman based in Port of Spain .
3 The open-form torsion angles are observed values for the phospho-free state of HPr ; the closed-form torsion angles of Ala16 are for the modelled phosphorylated state of HPr .
4 In contrast , the right-hand pair of bars show the average amount of perceived depth for the two simulated viewing distances in the ‘ window ’ condition in which the vertical and horizontal perspective cues were present only in the peripheral fronto-parallel regions and the central region containing the stereoscopic corrugations provided consistent perspective cues for the actual 57-cm viewing distance .
5 Such adherence to international standards makes it but a one-step process for the actual final assembler of the complete system to obtain either US FCC or European VDE electronic emission approvals .
6 In the first study four of the 26 subjects with symptomatic infections had influenza B and showed a 38% increase in the mean time taken for the variable fore period simple reaction time task , from 320 ( SD 24 ) ms when recruited to 440 ( SD 90 ) ms when symptomatic .
7 Superficially , the results for the lexical alternant class of ( pull ) were much the same also .
8 She paused and looked up at the small gentle fields for the placid yellow outline of the Jersey cow .
9 The young office worker in a safe sedentary job may well take up rock-climbing as a dangerous , physically exacting antidote for the dull occupational part of his life .
10 From the outset he had decided that he did not much care for the tall fair youth who seemed to look down his long nose at everything .
11 Perhaps the most satisfactory music in recent years has come from writers involved in the liturgy of a particular community , effectively as composers-in-residence , Among those in Britain writing for the Roman Catholic Church may be mentioned Stephen Dean , Philip Duffy , Bernadette Farrell , Paul Inwood , Alan Rees , Bill Tamblyn and Christopher Walker .
12 Father Tom Connolly , the spokesman for the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland , blamed any decline in young people 's behaviour on adults .
13 A spokesman for the Roman Catholic diocese of Leeds said : ‘ Those who criticise or accuse do so as private individuals .
14 The British government , whether Conservative or Labour , wants a solution that provides some safeguard for the Roman Catholic minority .
15 Perhaps the most striking case was that of William Patrick James Fair ( Bill Fair ) who had been a student for the Roman Catholic priesthood at the Carmelite College in Cork .
16 You would n't know it was autumn except for the odd dry leaf blowing down the road from the cemetery .
17 This becomes increasingly valuable during the final 16 weeks of the course , when our trainees will be getting closer and closer to the point where they become capable of managing the section , initially for the odd late shift , but very definitely with a view to being able to run the department outright by their final two weeks .
18 I would also nominate William Trevor , who is comparison a miniaturist with a Dostoevskian eye for the odd little incident , the world of the irrational and the way it impinges on ordinary life . ’
19 Where badgers have shouldered their way under sheep-fencing , look for dried earth or polishing on the wire , and for the odd loose guard hair .
20 In fact nothing happened during those five months in 1940 except for the odd German plane flying over .
21 The arrests were only marginally less disconcerting for the chief negotiator for the African National Congress , Cyril Ramaphosa : the swoop , coming in the middle of the talks , strengthened the PAC 's claim to be more vigorous than the ANC in opposing apartheid .
22 IT says a lot for the African National Congress in South Africa that , after their supporters were gunned down in cold blood at the beginning of the week , they are still prepared to talk peace .
23 A long-held hatred of the system of separate ethnically defined " bantustans " for blacks was finding expression in support for the African National Congress ( ANC ) demand for reintegration of the homelands into South Africa , as part of the dismantling of apartheid legislation .
24 Roger Jardine , a nuclear physicist who is the science affairs spokesman for the African National Congress , contested Mr Botha 's claim .
25 Ah know we 're build in' multi-bloody-storey flats an' whatnot an' there 's all sorts of clever bloody plans for the clever bloody future … .
26 Then for the mere trifling expense of printing a few worthless shares in a company that had no hope of building a line , the owner of the list could issue writs and summonses enforcing payment on the hapless subscribers .
27 Those who have put their trust in Jesus as Saviour " have been born anew … through the living and abiding word of God ; but , like all new-born babes , they must " long for the pure spiritual milk " of the word if they are to survive and grow ; and once beyond babyhood they need solid food — which is the " meat " of God 's word .
28 So what are Com Tech and MUA doing , jeopardising their relations with SCO in order to market a competitive type of Unix for the Intel-based personal computer ?
29 February 20th , 1920 : It was on this date that Adolf Hitler gave up painting and became spokesman for the newly-formed Nazi Party .
30 ‘ I saw him as fleeing the violent campus situation in America for the peaceful English countryside on a conscious level , while on an unconscious level he would begin to set up the conflict in the small town he went to .
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