Example sentences of "[verb] for [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | Only six customers had been disconnected for non-payment in the last six months . |
| 10 | 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 : |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We aim to deliver first class mail as soon as possible , with most mail targeted for delivery by the next working day . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In this action Leftwich was well ahead of his time , as Norwegian ice later became widely used for refrigeration during the nineteenth century . |
| 20 | I explained all that to Chatterton , but stressed that we would run for cover at the first sign of trouble . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | For example , some historians have argued that Methodism and other non-conformist sects were deliberately encouraged by employers in the nineteenth century in order to placate the workers and persuade them to look for salvation in the next world rather than in this . |
| 24 | This retrospective casenote study looked at the early course of schizophrenia in Asians , Afro-Caribbeans , and Whites presenting for admission with a first psychotic episode , to All Saints Hospital , Birmingham ( n= 137 ) over a 24 month period . |
| 25 | Roberts ' solicitor , John Grey-Lloyd , did not oppose the application but said he reserved the right to apply for bail at the next hearing . |
| 26 | Both configurations are scheduled for release in the fourth quarter , and prices start at $200,000 — £190,000 . |
| 27 | The first release , scheduled for availability in the third quarter 1993 , will add support for Fibre Distributed Data Interface networks and SynOptics ' LattisRing Token Ring and LattisHub Ethernet cascadable workgroup hubs to LattisViews . |
| 28 | They had Millwall running for cover in the first half and for once made the most of their superiority . |
| 29 | The Act allowed couples to petition for divorce after the first anniversary of their marriage , instead of after three years as had been upheld previously . |
| 30 | Along the horizontal axis are measured the supply of and demand for labour in the ith market , and respectively . |