Example sentences of "of [noun sg] for an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such indirect arguments are scorned by modern biologists , but at the turn of the century they were the mainstay of support for an active Lamarckian movement . |
| 2 | A ‘ tougher ‘ form of protection for an area containing many buildings of historic interest , perhaps with particular features typical of the locality , comes when a local authority ( with confirmation from the Department of the Environment ) makes an Article 4 Direction . |
| 3 | Balaguer , who was blind and reportedly severely incapacitated , was accused of responsibility for an economic crisis , high unemployment and constant power failures , and of channelling available resources into the completion of the huge Colón lighthouse project , a contribution to the 1992 celebrations of 500th anniversary of Columbus 's arrival in the Americas , and also seen as a memorial to Balaguer himself . |
| 4 | But there is no late date set into the legislation , only that ratification when it is required means that from the first of the following month then the elections on the new constituency boundaries may take place under the new er European rules so that a decision is of course for an election in June er is in fact needed by the first of May . |
| 5 | The second item is the loss of grant for an archaeology assistant three thousand eight hundred pounds , this is one of these things where we 've had English Heritage at our grant and has tapered to fade out . |
| 6 | The obvious lightness of the skeleton meant that this kind of existence for an air-breathing semi-aquatic animal would have been particularly inappropriate , because of the buoyancy of their air-filled bodies . |
| 7 | This brought home to me the fact that paying lots of money for an established defender ( central ) is a massive risk . |
| 8 | In that erm , in that mermaid outfit , and earning some ridiculous amount of money for an hour , while other models went up and down a catwalk for a tenth of the money , or something . |
| 9 | Its directors had to sustain wars in Asia , try to devise means of governing newly conquered Indian provinces , and cope with the demands of the national government and of Parliament for an ever greater measure of control over the Company . |
| 10 | Accordingly , his cause of action for an infringement before the date of sealing accrues at the date of the infringement but can not be enforced until the procedural requirement of sealing is met . |
| 11 | The simplest course of action for an exporter to follow is to raise an invoice , in the usual manner , on the overseas buyer ; this is known as ‘ open account ’ trading . |
| 12 | This was hardly a rational allocation of talent for an industry which , above all others , was capital-intensive , but had an unrivalled record of good labour relations . |
| 13 | " Could whatever is going to be delivered be some sort of equipment for an oyster farm ? |
| 14 | Where earlier in the day had prevailed an exercise in organised pandemonium — the sawing of wood for an extra set buttress , the clanking of lights being swung into position , and everywhere the ringing cacophony of cross conversation — now there is almost a deafening silence , broken only by the odd apologetic cough as the minutes tick towards 8.30 . |
| 15 | Abelson 1 regards a reasonable rate of publication for an established investigator as an annual rate of two to three papers , rising to four or five when ‘ a hot field is discovered ’ . |
| 16 | Abelson regards a reasonable rate of publication for an established investigator as an annual rate of two to three papers , rising to four or five when ‘ a hot field is discovered ’ . |
| 17 | The officer , in his car , was well out of range for an accurate shot with his cheap revolver . |
| 18 | The risk of bankruptcy for an individual company is related to its net worth and to the riskiness of the external economic environment . |
| 19 | Occasionally , he managed to obtain temporary work : once checking stock in a publisher 's warehouse — hardly the sort of job for an ex-officer and far below his not inconsiderable intelligence — and on another occasion , because of his clerical and administrative experiences in the War Office , helping to sort out the vast archive of a deceased general . |
| 20 | XSoft is looking for high-volume distribution and has cut deals with Qualix Inc and Sun Microsystems Inc to provide the software free of charge for an initial 30-day trial basis . |
| 21 | The spokesman said the authority would be pressing the department of transport for an early meeting . |
| 22 | When you are considering the problem of diet for an elderly parent it would also be helpful to have a copy of Easy Cooking for One or Two ( published by Penguin ) , by Louise Davies , who is a dietician . |
| 23 | The three processes of adaptation and the three sources of adaptedness for an individual are shown in Table 24.1 . |
| 24 | And the knowledge drained her of desire for an end to their ordeal . |
| 25 | As his determination to change his wife was motivated not only by his infatuation with Anne but also by the pressing need to produce a legitimate male heir to the throne , the papal stamp of approval for an annulment and remarriage was essential . |
| 26 | There would be plenty of room for an electric stove and for cupboards , and it would convert easily into a comfortable kitchen . |
| 27 | Hence it is hardly probable that a group of remarks about the first four groups could place any restriction on the nature of the two later groups , and thus there is a lot of room for an invalidating counter-example to the principle of closure . |
| 28 | It is similarly arguable that it should be up to the defence to provide a proper foundation of evidence for an assertion that a woman who has been robbed by a man nonetheless subsequently consented to sexual intercourse with him . |
| 29 | In all this there was plenty of scope for an awareness and endurance of contradiction . |
| 30 | They may well have certain cerebral pre-adaptations that subtended vocalised speech linked with gesture , which responded in some ancestral line to pressures of selection for an ever more complex code of communication . |