Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Copies of the charter were being given out during the rush hour at Darlington but connections proved not to be the best with an hour wait for the next train south . |
| 2 | We sat for about an hour waiting for the bargemen to wake . |
| 3 | an hour waiting for the bus |
| 4 | In particular the crisis was seen by Washington as an opportunity to press for the rearmament of West Germany . |
| 5 | Dr Thomas Beddoes , a Bristol physician at Hotwells , told him of an opportunity to write for the Morning Chronicle in London , and Coleridge , with a heavy heart , almost accepted the editor 's ‘ very handsome offer ’ . |
| 6 | Lautro should reconsider its practice of issuing a press notice and consider deferring the issue of a press notice until after the person affected has had an opportunity to apply for the notice to be rescinded , to make representations to that effect , and Lautro 's board has ruled in the application ( post , pp. 581F–G , 582A ) . |
| 7 | A strong force of 26 heavy line-of-battle ships was based on Plymouth to protect the western approaches and patrol up-Channel towards the Nore , while Vernon himself took command of a smaller fleet , of rather weaker vessels , in the Downs , which could either sail west down the Channel or north-east to intercept an enemy making for the Thames estuary . |
| 8 | ( 3 ) An objection shall , for the purposes of paragraph ( ii ) of subsection ( 2 ) above , be intimated to the applicant ( a ) by delivering to him a copy of the notice of objection lodged with the licensing board under paragraph ( a ) of that subsection ; or ( ii ) by sending a copy of the said notice by registered post or by recorded delivery in a letter addressed to him at his proper address ; or ( c ) by leaving a copy of the said notice for him at his proper address ; and , for the purposes of paragraphs ( ii ) and ( c ) of this subsection , the proper address in the case of an applicant being an individual natural person shall be his place of abode as specified in his application or , in the case of such an applicant applying for the renewal of a licence , the premises in respect of which the application is made , and , in the case of an applicant other than an individual natural person , shall be the address specified in the application . |
| 9 | Next the Emperor made an attempt to push for the accession of Isabella 's son Alfonso , Prince of the Asturias . |
| 10 | An attempt to match for the duration of the first and second stages of labour , the use of oxytocin , and the mode of delivery failed . |
| 11 | News of the donation reached the UK press by June 6 and prompted a hostile reaction , as it was interpreted as an attempt to compensate for the killing of a policewoman , Yvonne Fletcher , outside the Libyan People 's Bureau in London in April 1984 [ see pp. 33004-05 ] . |
| 12 | In an attempt to compensate for the reduction of Soviet aid the government made serious efforts during 1990 to improve economic relations with its Asian neighbours , including Thailand , Indonesia and Taiwan . |
| 13 | Hobson 's Imperialism is important in our context not because of its impact on the development of Marxist theories of ‘ the last stage of capitalism ’ , but as an attempt to restate for the new century the fundamental principles of Cobdenite free trade . |
| 14 | Utilisation measured by admission rates at the small area level was used as the measure of need , with an attempt to adjust for the current level of supply of health care facilities . |
| 15 | Documents signed during the visit included a protocol on scientific and technical co-operation , an accord providing for the construction of embassies and a programme for cultural and scientific exchanges . |
| 16 | In the autumn of 1955 , some six months after he had been in Berlin , Blake approached his superiors with the suggestion that he should pretend to become an agent working for the Russians . |
| 17 | Georgia attended an NACC meeting for the first time , Albania was also admitted as a member , and Finland attended as an observer . |
| 18 | Hamadi Jebali : a 51-year-old newspaper editor from Sousse , he was sentenced by the military court in Tunis on 31 January 1991 to one year 's imprisonment for publishing an article calling for the abolition of military courts . |
| 19 | It is one thing to assert that a consequence of sustained expansion of demand will be a direct increase in the expected rate of inflation by a process which efficiently circumvents the gradual error learning mechanism posited by adaptive expectations : individuals will have an incentive to search for the origins of their expectational errors and take the steps appropriate to keeping them to an absolute , unavoidable minimum . |
| 20 | On 7 August the Cabinet accepted Ede 's conclusions that an amendment providing for the abolition of capital punishment could not be ruled out of order on the grounds that it did not come within the scope of the Bill , and that it would be impossible to grade murders into those for which capital punishment would be retained and those for which it would be abolished . |
| 21 | The only concession allowed by the party leadership was the acceptance of an amendment calling for the development of emergency procedures for greater consultation between the MPs and the national executive committee after complaints that its members had no knowledge of the deal with the Government until the Commons vote had taken place . |
| 22 | There is a curious meeting held at the beginning of each season called the United Kingdom Championships , which actually is an event to cater for the up-and-coming athletes and bears no relation to a British championship . |
| 23 | Only when it needs a custom development platform should an organisation opt for the really new stuff . |
| 24 | In short , the strategic choice in British and American urban policy has not been simply about the encouragement of economic development , it is also about the changing nature of that development itself , more specifically the changing nature of the labour process in an economy designed for the post-Fordist era ( Lash and Urry , 1987 ; Murray , 1989 ) . |
| 25 | The first exemption , which is most pertinent to takeovers , is contained in s103(3) , which provides that a valuer 's report is not required where the allotment is made in connection with an arrangement providing for the allotment of shares in the company on terms that the whole or part of the consideration for the shares allotted is to be provided by the transfer to that company ( or the cancellation ) of all or some of the shares , or of all or some of the shares of a particular class , in another company ( with or without the issue to that company of shares , or of shares of any particular class , in that other company ) . |
| 26 | ( 2 ) Under CA 1985 , s131(1) merger relief ( see para 23.1.5 below ) will be available " … where the issuing company has secured at least a 90 per cent equity holding in another company in pursuance of an arrangement providing for the allotment of equity shares in the issuing company on terms that the consideration for the shares allotted is to be provided ( a ) by the issue or transfer to the issuing company of equity shares in the other company … |
| 27 | If the argument mentioned in relation to s89 is correct in respect of that section then it should be equally applicable to s131(1). ( 3 ) Section 103(3) provides that s103(1) ( requiring a valuation in respect of shares allotted by a public company for a non-cash consideration ) does not apply to " … the allotment of shares by a company in connection with an arrangement providing for the allotment of shares in that company on terms that the whole or part of the consideration for the shares allotted is to be provided by the transfer to that company ( or the cancellation ) of all or some of the shares , or of all or some of the shares of a particular class , in another company ( with or without the issue to that company of shares , or of shares of any particular class , in that other company ) " . |
| 28 | Article 1 provides that service will be effected in Contracting States on the request of a consul of the state of origin addressed to an authority designated for the purpose by the state of destination . |
| 29 | So , the primary or preferred mode of transmission was the indirect consular channel , from the consul of the requesting State to an authority designated for the purpose by the State addressed ; a Contracting State could , however , still insist on the use of the diplomatic channel , and the new Convention did not preclude more direct communication between competent authorities by agreement between the States concerned . |
| 30 | Daumier Drawings by Colta Ives , Margret Stuffmann and Martin Sonnabend ( £50 , $65 ) includes the rarer and less known drawings and watercolours , and accompanies an exhibition projected for the Metropolitan Museum of Art from February to May 1993 . |