Example sentences of "for an active [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blackwell glossed reproduction in a highly original way , fusing it with claims for an active female sexuality . |
| 2 | Since he resigned as defence secretary over the Westland helicopter affair in 1986 , he has campaigned for an active industrial policy . |
| 3 | Before taking this as a general licence for an active industrial policy to manage change , governments must ask why the market is not doing a better job , and whether intervention can itself improve on the existing situation . |
| 4 | The possibilities for an active social life for those living alone will obviously vary according to age , health , personality and mobility . |
| 5 | 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 . |