Example sentences of "for a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The claim for a straightforward oppositional kind of resistance also assumes that subjects can resist from a position outside the operations of power , according to the dominant inside/outside model of conventional politics . |
| 2 | Instead , it is suggested that the party concentrate upon training ‘ political soldiers ’ for a professional revolutionary elite which will have links with similar , military-style elites in other countries . |
| 3 | ‘ If love was crime , ’ said Alex , ‘ I 'd ask for a thousand similar offences to be taken into consideration . ’ |
| 4 | But not for the Americans , nor the British who were not bombed heavily enough to prevent them from turning the experience into a basis for a cosy national myth . |
| 5 | On May 25 , during a visit to Moscow by President Mitterrand of France , President Gorbachev declared his preference for a unified German membership of both NATO and the Warsaw Pact . |
| 6 | Some 500 people needed treatment for exposure , 134 for a rash similar to a severe form of acne . |
| 7 | So he 's , he 's , he 's arguing for a violent rural revolution . |
| 8 | A US Defense Department proposal now working its way through Congress includes funds for a Strategic Environmental Research Program . |
| 9 | Air France also has an operating alliance with Malev , the Hungarian carrier which is looking for a strategic foreign partner . |
| 10 | I was in bed for a straight seven days . |
| 11 | A lower setting gives slight orbital movement for harder materials , while the third setting allows the orbital action to be switched off for a straight reciprocating movement for filing or rasping , or fine cutting in hard materials . |
| 12 | Whatever it says about an achieved consensus on the slave trade , the 1814 campaign provides no support for a developing popular antislavery which incorporated emancipation . |
| 13 | The season 's highlight was a new opera by the inexperienced Mattia Vento , who later achieved only a modest reputation for a pleasant melodic gift . |
| 14 | She had been asked for twelve and it was now half past eleven , which would give her time for a pleasant comfortable drive to Carpendens Court . |
| 15 | This arrangement is not popular with staff and should therefore be for a predetermined limited period . |
| 16 | Equally alarming , we feel , is the fact that 35 young men aged between 16 and 21 were convicted for a consensual homosexual relationship during 1987 ; one was sentenced to a year in youth custody . |
| 17 | The EC 's overseas aid directorate has given conditional approval to a funding proposal for a southern African ivory trading centre , which would flout the existing provisions of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) . |
| 18 | For a southern French town , still very much in the ambience of the Pyrenees , it is graceless , with less to show than it should have for its history as a local capital , having twice been laid waste in the sixteenth century by Protestant raiders . |
| 19 | Substitutes Jamie Pollock and Bernie Slaven combined , with John Hendrie , for a perfect diving header by Wilkinson . |
| 20 | If 4000 records are stored in 5000 addresses then only one algorithm in every will achieve this , which rules out a search for a perfect randomizing algorithm on a trial-and-error basis . |
| 21 | These apartments provide a wonderful base for an Italian country holiday and give all the freedom and flexibility for a perfect carefree break . |
| 22 | Althusser actually says that an ideal explanation would map out the relations between different factors down to and including individuals , and thus outlines a programme for a perfect social theory which would account for the parts played by individuals in social organisation and change . |
| 23 | For a perfect criss-cross finish to pastry . |
| 24 | Government in Britain is not presidential ; it is a collective enterprise in which power is shared and for a beleaguered Prime Minister a power shared is a blame shared . |
| 25 | It was the quest for a greater managerial role which took Ian in 1989 to the York based confectionery giant , where he is one of two in-house solicitors . |
| 26 | Also , portraits of individual children are far more common in the eighteenth century than in the seventeenth , again arguing both for a change in fashionable attitudes , and also , may be , for a greater emotional investment in children by parents . |
| 27 | This takes a great deal of effort because simply having the potential for a greater reproductive success in females does not necessarily mean that they actual have ha actually have greater reproductive success . |
| 28 | The dignified pose struck by Chauntecleer in response to Pertelote 's unsympathetic reaction to his dream , in particular the understandable offence he takes at the embarrassing suggestion that what he really needs is a good laxative , would be comic in a human character ; that the character is a bird provides an opportunity for a greater bathetic and comic deflation when the character ends his monologue by flying down from the perch to peck , chuck and " tread " his favourite hens twenty times before dawn ( 3172 – 8 ) . |
| 29 | But inevitably , others in the company were pressing for a greater commercial awareness . |
| 30 | He 'd speak out for a poor helpless old man like Donny , just as he did for Ireland . ’ |