Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [num] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Built in 1934 for the infamous 1936 Hitler Olympics , when the black hero of America , Jesse Owens , smashed the formidable sprint opposition of Germany , the stadium had withstood the Allied bombings during the war and became a symbol of a new Germany when Berlin was split in half by the Wall . |
| 2 | The railway works at Crewe were built in 1843 for the Grand Junction Railway , which became part of the London and North Western Railway three years later . |
| 3 | Goodridge 's best-known work is the Lansdown tower on the edge of the city , built in 1824–7 for the celebrated William Beckford [ q.v. ] , who had settled in Bath in 1823 ; and this and his own residence , Montebello ( later Bathwick Grange ) on Bathwick Hill ( 1828–30 ) , are compositions of great originality , combining a Picturesque irregularity of form with an eclectic mixture of Greek and Italianate detail . |
| 4 | A second station , built in 1855 for the long defunct Stamford and Essendine Railway , was even more elaborately Tudor and indeed much closer to Burghley in its detailing . |
| 5 | MANCHESTER United are being backed to win £1 million for punters , as a rush of money yesterday saw their odds shorten to 6-4 for the Premier League title . |
| 6 | Euro Disney at present has some 36 rides and attractions , compared with 45 for the Magic Kingdom in Florida and 53 at Disneyland in California . |
| 7 | Applied to problem P1 of Section 8.2 , it gives x 2 l = 7 , x 4 l = 1 , x 43 = 3 , x 45 = 1 and x 46 = 4 , which has a cost of 67 compared with 92 for the initial BFS given in that section . |
| 8 | In the May 1990 congressional elections the ruling PRSC retained control of the Senate , winning 16 seats , compared with 12 for the Dominican Liberation Party ( Partido de la Liberación Dominicana — PLD ) and two for the Dominican Revolutionary Party ( Partido Revolucionario Dominicano — PRD ) . |
| 9 | The UNC had the support of six members of the House of Representatives compared with three for the official opposition PNM . |
| 10 | He invented and patented the ‘ closely coupled inductor ratio arm bridge ’ , a measuring instrument of great accuracy with numerous variations , including the low-level altimeter he developed in 1941 for the Royal Air Force . |
| 11 | As we show on page 21 , Labour is now second to the Tories in 186 seats ( compared to 145 for the Liberal Democrats ) . |
| 12 | The number of planning applications dealt with by Middlesbrough Council between January and March fell to 148 compared to 193 for the previous quarter . |
| 13 | As a result , an Intentional series , known as the Tasman Cup , was introduced in 1964 for the old 2½ litre formula . |
| 14 | This was the Scottish equivalent of the GCE O level and was introduced in 1962 for the top 30% of school pupils . |
| 15 | Par for this giant among seaside courses has been amended to 73 for the Amateur Championship , ‘ but today it 's more like 76 ’ declared club professional , Dai Stevenson . |
| 16 | Slobodan Milosevic , the Serbian President and a former leader of the Serbian communists , was elected president of the new party on July 17 , receiving 1,299 of the votes cast against 66 for the other candidate , the Socialist Alliance leader Radmila Andeljkova . |
| 17 | We can gain some idea of this from data included in the household survey cards compiled in 1929–30 for the New survey of London life and labour ( see Appendix 1 ) . |
| 18 | People are talking about millions for the other two but clubs can forget it as far as Newcastle are concerned . ’ |
| 19 | These bunkers were constructed in 1966 for the express purpose of preventing Nicklaus from taking this route . |
| 20 | This is the last bond to be actively redeemed until 1957 when a minor flurry of interest in activating redemption might have been responsible for some bond buying-in activity , although the Club waited until 1983 for the total buying-in to take place . |