Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [noun] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house was built by an Edwardian doctor using only the best materials — oak cured for eight years for the lower rooms ' panelling , fine teak for the window frames and mahogany for the fireplace . |
| 2 | Chris Burton , a Featherstone substitute , was sent off after 32 minutes for a high tackle on Craig Izzard , and visitors Leeds went on to win 22-20 . |
| 3 | The rest day , incidentally , was taken after two days for the lovely Caribbean reason of avoiding a clash with a steel-band festival . |
| 4 | A year later he worked for six months for the Eastern Health and Social Services Board in the Belfast area . |
| 5 | Thompson , of Crawley , was fined £400 and banned for six months for the lesser charge of driving without due care and attention . |
| 6 | Leave for 45 mins for a luxury fruit salad . |
| 7 | Wigan held the previous record of eight players for the 1950 tour and there can be no argument about their representation in a 32-man squad which is ‘ stronger and better equipped ’ than any sent previously , according to Malcolm Reilly , the British coach . |
| 8 | The company will move to MIPS ' latest R4000 technology over time and claims a performance rating of 659 TPC-A for the 24-way ES running Oracle version 7 . |
| 9 | He won gold and silver at the gala , and is likely to be replaced as one of the region 's stars by John Purvis , 15 , of Hartlepool who won three silvers and three bronze , and blind Christopher Ross of Ormesby who , in the youngest age category , won four golds and set a national record of 24.31 seconds for the 25 metres freestyle . |
| 10 | A referendum held in 1980 rejected the restoration of political parties ( proscribed by the King in 1961 ) but decided in favour of retaining the panchayat system with limited reforms , namely ; ( i ) the election to the Rashtriya Panchayat by universal adult franchise of 112 members for a five-year term ( the remaining 28 members being nominated by the King ) ; and ( ii ) the appointment of the Council of Ministers on the recommendation of the Prime Minister ( elected by the Rashtriya Panchayat ) . |
| 11 | Dromore jockey John Reid who is having his best ever season was in a suitably bullish mood when I spoke to him about the remainder of the 1993 Flat racing year which has seen him head inexorably towards 100 winners for the first time in his career . |
| 12 | Sixty-three legionnaires had held off a Mexican force of 2,000 soldiers for a whole day , at the end of which five legionnaires had been left alive ; these five , thirsty , hungry and out of ammunition , had bayonet charged the Mexicans . |
| 13 | He told Taylor , who appeared in the dock wearing a dark suit with a small teddy bear mascot on the breast pocket , that Parliament had laid down a maximum sentence of 10 years for an appropriate case and to deter those who took the law into their own hands . |
| 14 | Attention was therefore focused upon the announcement of a national training squad of 45 players for a six-day training camp at the end of June and on the performance of Nick Farr-Jones ’ team in six test matches this summer . |
| 15 | British beaches are becoming increasingly polluted despite 35 awards for the blue flag , the European Commission 's highest commendation of beach excellence . |
| 16 | Another enchanting piece in the same book , ‘ Chiome d'oro ’ , is described as a ‘ Canzonetta a due voci Concertata da duoi Violini Chitarone o Spinetta ’ ; the voices duet ( mostly in parallel thirds ) over an ostinato bass , each of their five strophes being introduced by one of three ritornelli for the two violini over the same ostinato . |
| 17 | In 1991 Carl Lewis set a world record of 9.86 seconds for the 100 metre sprint . |
| 18 | Foster , who swam a world best of 23.72 seconds for the 50 metres butterfly on Saturday , managed a fast start and powered home in 21.72 , shaving 0.04 of a second from former East German Nils Rudolph 's three-year-old best . |
| 19 | At school , both he and his elder brother ( Robert Victor ) excelled at sports ; in 1919 Eric set a new ( and still unbroken ) school record of 10.2 seconds for the 100 yards . |
| 20 | Rich countries are not going to accept proposals from India and the Group of 77 countries for an environmental aid fund which would be administered by the developing nations , but transfers of technology and financial aid will be part of the eventual package . |
| 21 | Con Tours have requested an additional booking equivalent to one coach load of 46 sleepers for a two-night stay in each week in May-August . |
| 22 | From the 18 possible B mesons they were able to find , the researchers have deduced a mass of 5270 MeV for the neutral B meson and 5270 MeV for the charged B — some 5.3 times as heavy as the proton . |
| 23 | There is already a waiting list of 50 people for the new machine . |
| 24 | The central committee of Likud , the main party of the right-wing ruling coalition , convened on March 1-2 to elect a ranked list of 50 candidates for the general election scheduled for June 23 . |
| 25 | Above is a list of ten guidelines for a good group . |
| 26 | Taking gives an estimate of 3 km for the limiting size of a neutron star . |
| 27 | Protected bands of 160 nucleotides for the endogenous mNF-H and 121 nucleotides for the transgene . |
| 28 | Although the Conference reaffirmed the validity of the principles and objectives of the World Population Plan of Action , if also adopted a set of 88 recommendations for the further implementation of the Plan in the years ahead . |
| 29 | The calculations predicted an unexpectedly large shift of the order of 1 millihertz for an atomic density in the fountain of 10 9 atoms per cubic centimetre . |
| 30 | It has now prepared a short-list of five projects for the next round of decisions to be made in a year or two , although the agency warns that these more ambitious and expensive projects can only be funded at the rate of one every 2½ years . |