Example sentences of "[prep] [num] for the [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | End of year sales for 1992 for the bookshop and the mail order business were £753,000 ( £869,500 in 1991 ) . |
| 4 | Even the two hurdle races were light on entries with 21 for the maiden and 24 for the handicap . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Peregrine Phillips took out a patent in 1831 for the contact or catalytic process for the manufacture of sulphuric acid . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Previously Peter had raised £1,180 in 1988 for the group and £1,192 in 1990 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |