Example sentences of "for a [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nkrumah was hastily coopted into the preparations for a Pan-African Congress to be held in October 1945 in Manchester . |
| 2 | He sold one of Derain 's paintings for a thousand francs to a Norwegian dealer and was able to offer Modigliani a contract . |
| 3 | Since Legnani first danced the famous thirty-two fouettës in Swan Lake , it sometimes seems that choreographers lacking ideas for a spectacular finish to a solo , send the dancer spinning faster and faster round the stage , or set them centre stage and make them turn with increasingly difficult poses . |
| 4 | In summary there is a need for a unified approach to school roll forecasting based on demographic data augmented by local information . |
| 5 | As services move to multiple locations in the community , the need for a unified approach to establishing and monitoring standards on a national scale becomes even more pressing . |
| 6 | This chapter is therefore structured to show how systems thinking was incorporated into physical geography , to outline the way in which systems approaches have been utilized in other disciplines , and then to sketch the position of the several branches of physical geography in the early 1980s as a vehicle for proceeding towards what may be an emerging focus for a unified approach to the system as applied to physical environment at the scale traditionally employed by the physical geographer . |
| 7 | It was designed for the struggle which , as I feared , was before us ; between the two European tendencies which Napoleon I called Republican and Cossack , and which I , according to our present ideas , should designate on the one side as the system of order on a monarchical basis , and on the other as the social republic to the level of which the antimonarchical development is wont to sink , either slowly or by leaps and bounds , until the conditions thus created become intolerable , and the disappointed populace are ready for a violent return to monarchical institutions in a Caesarean form . |
| 8 | It would certainly be possible for a cooling-off period to be introduced in Britain . |
| 9 | There was no reason for a beleaguered host to be gentle when hauling two spies into their precincts , and in their anger and disappointment and fear , the men who handled the drag-ropes would have made sure , but for Lomellini , that these climbers never climbed again . |
| 10 | Thus there was a demand for a cheaper alternative to intra-venous therapy . |
| 11 | The Heads of State meeting , chaired by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev , negotiated a five-year collective security agreement signed by Russia , Armenia , Kazakhstan , Kirgizstan , Tajikistan and Uzbekistan , providing for a collective response to aggression against any of its signatories . |
| 12 | As he told Fred Emery on Panorama , ‘ from the moment that decision was taken to cancel the opportunity for a collective judgement to be taken , I knew that something very wrong had happened . ’ |
| 13 | PC-NFS version 5.0 is from $560 for a single-user licence to $7,625 for a 25-user licence . |
| 14 | The SQL Server for Windows NT , co-developed with Sybase Inc , goes from £800 for a single-user licence to £12,000 for 1,000 users . |
| 15 | The SQL Server for Windows NT , co-developed with Sybase Inc , goes from £800 for a single-user licence to £12,000 for 1,000 users . |
| 16 | So I got on the Greyhound Bus for a six-hour ride to Washington and checked in at a cheap hotel opposite the bus depot . |
| 17 | Four other cases , brought on Sept. 10 and 12 , involved the improper grant of a contract to oversee a power scheme , the export of Pakistani cotton at below market rates , the sale of property in Islamabad worth £150,000,000 for a mere £500,000 to a foreign company managed by associates of her husband , Asif Ali Zardari , and the improper granting of permits to a close relation and to a friend enabling them to distribute liquified gas . |
| 18 | Hence the need for a genuine commitment to sustainable development which is integrated with national policy on industry , energy , transport , trading and planning . |
| 19 | When Henry inherited the estate and gave permission for a Catholic church to be built in the village , Walter had violently opposed the decision , but Henry had stood firm . |
| 20 | Paul Merson is playing with a maturity which augers well for a rich future to an England career that started so well in Czechoslovakia last month . |
| 21 | Mahwah , New Jersey-based Israeli company Defense Software & Systems Inc says it agreed with Israel Corp Ltd for a joint venture to be incorporated in the US to hold an 80.1% interest in Tower Semiconductor Ltd , the name chosen for the company being formed to own and operate National Semiconductor Corp 's existing facility in Migdal Haemek , Israel , running it as an independent semiconductor business . |
| 22 | Kuchma won additional powers from parliament until May 1 , 1993 , to push his reform programme through , and called for a joint commission to be set up to fight organized crime in the Ukraine . |
| 23 | You audit a job and it does n't conform to procedures , , there are procedures to deal with it , it 's probably for a major change to that . |
| 24 | Prepare yourself for a major shock to your assumptions . |
| 25 | I will arrange for a spare office to be placed at your disposal . ’ |
| 26 | Keegan , who guided United to the First Division in the twilight of his playing career , has put the terms he 'd want for a three-year contract to Sir John and his fellow directors . |
| 27 | Keegan , who guided United to the First Division in the twilight of his playing career , has put the terms he 'd want for a three-year contract to Sir John and his fellow directors . |
| 28 | The world 's clearest sea water has been recorded in the Weddell Sea in early spring , clear enough for a Secchi disc to be seen at a depth of 79 m ( Gieskes et al . , |
| 29 | The attack , the first major violation of a ceasefire signed by the LTTE and government security forces in June 1989 [ see p. 36735 ] , dashed hopes that a breakthrough had been achieved in the search for a peaceful settlement to the conflict . |
| 30 | By the 1660s , Rome had given up all thoughts of the forcible deposition of the English Protestant monarchy ; indeed , in the 1670s its cautious and reluctant response to the proposed marriage of the heir to the throne James and the Catholic noblewoman Mary of Modena threatened to block the best route for a peaceful end to the English schism , and Rome continued to offer only lukewarm support to James both before and after 1685 . |