Example sentences of "[verb] for [noun] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Texts are sometimes altered editorially for particular purposes , and in this respect , for example , you could compare Shakespeare 's play Henry V with a version of the play revised for performance in the eighteenth century . |
| 2 | On the other hand , foreign languages were clearly expected to be taught for communication in the first place . |
| 3 | Those are just three of the reasons I am pleased Alan Peaford has agreed to chair Editing for Industry for a fourth term . |
| 4 | These days the Glaswegian goes for consistency in the first ten places while riding as an understudy to a leader like LeMond . |
| 5 | The stories each picture told varied from the tragic to the hilarious : The expensive oil landscape which had had seagulls drawn on to the sky in ballpoint pen ; the ancient Highland cattle picture , swopped for food after the First World War by a travelling artist . |
| 6 | Have the fruit or yogurt for dessert on a second day each week . |
| 7 | Looking further ahead , he added : ‘ Much of what matters for Courtaulds in the next century will be decided between now and 1995 — what kind of company we 're going to be and what the balance between the businesses will be . ’ |
| 8 | Much of what matters for Courtaulds in the next century — what kind of company we 're going to be and what the balance between the businesses should be — will be decided between now and 1995 . |
| 9 | Martyn Grimley , another Great Britain player , will be appearing for Brooklands in the Second Division . |
| 10 | If we go back to the education example , and suppose that the first vote is between L and M , then if the rich vote sincerely L wins , and in the second round H defeats L. On the other hand , if the rich had voted for M in the first round , then M would have gone on to win in the second round . |
| 11 | Sparta voted for war against Athens on this occasion in her own chamber , thereby getting Samos on to the Peloponnesian League agenda ; the Corinthians voted for peace in the second , decisive meeting , composed of the whole league ( Thuc. i.40 ) . |
| 12 | Only six customers had been disconnected for non-payment in the last six months . |
| 13 | In order to be considered for admission to a first degree or DipHE course at the University of Ulster , candidates should be in a position to satisfy : |
| 14 | As Smith commented , it is incomprehensible that Moorcroft does not appear to have been considered for appointment as the first Professor of the London College . |
| 15 | We aim to deliver first class mail as soon as possible , with most mail targeted for delivery by the next working day . |
| 16 | Prime Minister Mouloud Hamrouche , who was to stand for election for the first time , said that the ruling National Liberation Front ( FLN ) might consider entering into a coalition with one of the secular opposition parties , either before or after the election . |
| 17 | According to the Home Office statistics the number of people applying for asylum in the first quarter of 1992 more than halved , from 3730 a month last year to 1730 a month this year . |
| 18 | THE QUESTION of just who would even want to be a partner with the US was underlined last night as the American Administration headed for default for the first time in its history . |
| 19 | I got in touch with my French and German colleagues who agreed to support a UK proposal to place the matter on the agenda when it was presented for approval at the first meeting . |
| 20 | This year , ninety young dancers drawn from all over the Province , again under the direction of Maldoom , will create ‘ The Rite of Spring ’ — based on one of the most powerful and exciting scores written for dance in the 20th century . |
| 21 | Many of the programs currently available , and the majority of those being prepared for launch within the next few months , will run on perfectly ordinary business computers , the same systems on which you currently perform word processing or accounting . |
| 22 | Only David Platt can rival the Sheffield Wednesday pair for caps in the last three years . |
| 23 | With these words , leading Christian Bangladeshi editor , Susanta Adhikari , summed up his vision of Christian writing and publishing for participants at the fourth Bangladeshi Booksellers and Writers Workshop which was held in Dhaka on 25–27 July . |
| 24 | It starts on Wednesday , and , you know , I 'm taking time off from searching for props at the last minute and dress rehearsing to come and talk to you . |
| 25 | It was in essence this same three-fold promise of the Anglo-Saxons that was used for coronations throughout the thirteenth century in England : King Richard I at his first coronation in 1189 swore " to maintain peace and honour and to reverence the Church , to annul any evil laws , and to make and maintain good laws " . |
| 26 | In this action Leftwich was well ahead of his time , as Norwegian ice later became widely used for refrigeration during the nineteenth century . |
| 27 | Janet gave up her secretarial job , and devoted herself to caring for Lisa for the next six months . |
| 28 | I explained all that to Chatterton , but stressed that we would run for cover at the first sign of trouble . |
| 29 | Only refugees with firm arrangements for travel into another country were admitted during the border closure , which was in response to the alleged failure of the UN to disburse some US$40,000,000 promised for help with the first major influx of refugees after the August 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait . |
| 30 | The Government 's opposition to the proposed EC ban on tobacco advertising , and the common agricultural policy ( in which heavily-subsidised high-tar tobacco is produced for export to the Third World ) , are nonsensical in health terms . |