Example sentences of "[prep] [num] for the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vote on Hinchliffe 's Bill two weeks ago produced a vote of 188 for the Bill and only one against . |
| 2 | This was odd , since the BBC had just come up with the figures of 301 for the Tories and 298 for Labour . |
| 3 | Pursuant to the Directives ' aim to promote comparability of the accounts of companies of the various member States , companies are required to adopt one of two prescribed formats for the balance sheet and one of four for the profit and loss account but in doing so they may use either the prescribed ‘ historical cost accounting rules ’ or the ‘ alternative accounting rules ’ which pay greater recognition to the impact of inflation by a type of current cost accounting . |
| 4 | In elections to the Legislative Assembly held at the same time , the PUSC won an absolute majority , winning 29 of the 57 seats against 25 for the PLN and three for smaller parties ( one left-wing , two regional ) . |
| 5 | End of year sales for 1992 for the bookshop and the mail order business were £753,000 ( £869,500 in 1991 ) . |
| 6 | Even the two hurdle races were light on entries with 21 for the maiden and 24 for the handicap . |
| 7 | Initial results gave the HRPP 26 seats compared with 18 for the SNDP and three independents . |
| 8 | By the time that the new Fono convened in early May , the traditional political manoeuvring had increased the HRPP 's legislative strength to 30 seats , compared with 16 for the SNDP and one independent . |
| 9 | In the more marginal areas , most notably Seoul and its surrounding Kyonggi province , the DP secured an unexpectedly high level of support ; it won 25 of the 44 directly elected seats in the capital , compared with 16 for the DLP and two for the UNP . |
| 10 | Mori for the Times put Labour one point ahead on 39 per cent , with 38 for the Tories and 20 for the Liberal Democrats . |
| 11 | Oak is a ‘ Severner Motor ’ built by Charles Hill in 1934 for the Severn & Canal Carrying Company . |
| 12 | Another place of worship was built in 1828 for the Methodists but as attendances dwindled in the 1970s it was decided to share with Christ church , a facility which made economic sense . |
| 13 | Major alterations in the seventeenth and eighteenth-centuries covered up the marble and we have to be grateful to renovations in 1904 for the fact that it is now visible again . |
| 14 | Peregrine Phillips took out a patent in 1831 for the contact or catalytic process for the manufacture of sulphuric acid . |
| 15 | One wonders how close the cost of Edward 's internment was to the £15 3s. 4½d. paid to Hugh Brice in 1471 for the cerecloth and spices used to embalm his predecessor , Henry VI . |
| 16 | Previously Peter had raised £1,180 in 1988 for the group and £1,192 in 1990 . |
| 17 | But dogged determination by the owners saw the restoration of this fine engine , built in 1905 for the LSWER and which also served the Southern Railway and BR(S) , through to completion . |
| 18 | The programme 's drafting commission voted 7 to 2 for the proposition that the national question could be solved only by socialist revolution and that the party slogan should not be new frontiers , but the abolition of all frontiers . |
| 19 | It took Robins 's total to 11 for the season since goal-shy United sold him for just £800,000 in the summer , and Robins said : ‘ I suppose I felt I had something to prove . |
| 20 | So be here tomorrow at five to one for the Kaye and Angus Lunchtime Show . |
| 21 | In 1982 , the Joint Liberal/SDP Commission for Constitutional Reform calculated that if in England there was , as compared to the 1979 general election , an even switch of votes from the Labour and Conservative Parties to the Alliance such that each of the three groupings secured 33 per cent of the vote , then the Alliance would still only gain 56 seats as compared to 207 for the Conservatives and 253 for Labour . |