Example sentences of "for a [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In most cases a date will be given for a directions appointment and this will be endorsed on the copy applications for service on the respondents . |
| 2 | The man , serving four years for a firearms offence , was on home leave and had failed to return . |
| 3 | The view of Keynes ( 1930 ) , Hicks ( 1946 ) and Houthakker ( 1968 ) is that the usual situation for a futures market is one of normal backwardation , that is , F t < E ( S T ) . |
| 4 | But the equities salesman who goes to work for a futures dealer may find the going hard . |
| 5 | It must be admitted , though , that it is not entirely convincing as a forum for a civitas capital ; it lacks both basilica and civic offices . |
| 6 | ‘ You have a previous conviction for a drugs offence involving cannabis . |
| 7 | Mr Montignac says he discovered his ‘ method ’ while lunching in fancy European restaurants when he worked for a drugs company . |
| 8 | The Cleveland firm which installed the panelling for a drugs trial could not take it down until today at the earliest . |
| 9 | Cuban-US relations had been inflamed on Jan. 31 , 1990 , when a US Coast Guard patrol boat , with the administration 's authorization , attacked and damaged a Cuban-chartered cargo ship , the Hermann , in the Gulf of Mexico , when its Cuban master had refused to stop for a drugs search . |
| 10 | This election campaign was , apart from anything else , a good advertisement for the need for a positive-images policy to dispel , maybe not the hatred , but certainly the fear and the ignorance about homosexuality . |
| 11 | The idea is that an area consisting largely of derelict and/or vacant land should be landscaped and used for a variety of horticultural , leisure and recreational purposes , normally for a six-months period . |
| 12 | More recently George ( 1989 ) has re-examined this approach , pointed out its drawbacks and concluded that the balance of theory and evidence does suggest that there is a need for a mergers policy . |
| 13 | At the moment I have to knit the clothes by hand as I can not find a machine knitting pattern for a 12″ doll ( it is not a teenage doll ) anywhere . |
| 14 | However the Occupational Pensions Board called for a pensions tribunal and Tony Thurham , chairman of the Association of Pensions Lawyers , said : ‘ Many pensions lawyers would have preferred a tribunal since it would probably have had greater powers and more staff . |
| 15 | The standard cruise power setting of 18,500 feet equates to a TAS of 260 knots for a dry-tanks range of 300 nm . |
| 16 | Caesars Hotel Casino in Atlantic City was fined $250,000 on Wednesday for removing black women from a dice table for a high-stakes gambler who wanted to gamble only with white , male dealers . |
| 17 | Caesars Hotel Casino in Atlantic City was fined $250,000 on Wednesday for removing black women from a dice table for a high-stakes gambler who wanted to gamble only with white , male dealers . |
| 18 | If we paid cash , we might have had to go to shareholders for a rights issue . ’ |
| 19 | The Castle Eden Walkway Country Park was the setting for a woodcrafts weekend . |
| 20 | Iron Agers : Castle Eden Walkway Country Park is the setting for a woodcrafts weekend today and tomorrow . |
| 21 | Erm on the er process check list , erm a difference from ourselves which does the affect the price of group three , which we purposefully left out , they have quoted er a price for a soils investigation . |
| 22 | Bernard 's original idea was for a 24″ tank next to the fire , but our series made him think again . |
| 23 | It took three minutes for a plain-clothes policeman to reach the booths , but all were empty . |
| 24 | London-based Chernikeeff Networks Ltd is now offering Japan Computer Corp 's range of MIPS R3000 RISC-based colour X-terminals in the UK as the SuperXR series : prices go from £4,500 for a 17″ model to £6,000 for the 20″ version . |
| 25 | He outlined his idea for a movie plot , which was basically the story of two Californian friends who decide to make a once-and-for-all fortune by selling a consignment of cocaine , and then setting off across the country for a marijuana-cum-motorbikes adventure . |
| 26 | A shaky victory , and a massive disappointment for a Lions player , followed the pattern of 1980 and 1989 . |
| 27 | The potential for a KBS approach to complex avionic component fault diagnostics via the use of limited but similar reasoning approaches to those adopted by experienced service engineers has great potential in the provision of intelligent support to equipment diagnostics . |
| 28 | DIXONS , the electrical retailing giant , looks certain to launch a vigorous campaign for a Monopolies Commission investigation of the £461million bid for the company by Kingfisher . |
| 29 | DIXONS , the electrical retailing giant , looks certain to launch a vigorous campaign for a Monopolies Commission investigation of the £461million bid for the company by Kingfisher . |
| 30 | In 1949 he married Marjorie , daughter of Edgar Currie , formerly a warehouse foreman for a removals firm , but incapacitated during World War I. There were no children . |