Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] for [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joe Foley led for much of the distance , but once Belfast 's Stephen Mely had fought his way clear of a rather physical confrontation with Michael Cullen he closed on Foley and moved ahead with two of the 15 laps left . |
| 2 | Unlike the UK , the Netherlands has for most of the time since 1950 pursued a consistent policy of reducing and limiting the prison population ; overall it is difficult to argue that this reduction in punishment has adversely affected the Netherlands ' crime rate , which has risen in a roughly similar manner to that in the UK over this period ( Downes , 1999 : 33–41 , 194–5 ; NACRO , 1991a : 93 ) . |
| 3 | Murphy and Taggart led for much of the way but missed out a loop section of the route which cost them 30 marks and they dropped back . |
| 4 | An internal inquiry has been carried out by Ealing social services , in whose area Christopher lived for most of the last weeks of his life , but no serious professional errors were found . |
| 5 | Police invetsigations at Sandford continued for most of the day . |
| 6 | In this garden Shep lurked for most of the day . |
| 7 | Sun Microsystems Inc has a new desktop SBus Expansion Subsystem that provides three more SBus slots for several of the its workstations and servers , and enables use of single and double width boards ; it also accommodates up to two 424Mb disk drives and will be available from Sun Microsystems Computer Corp and SunExpress at $2,500 in July . |
| 8 | In Teesside seats outside of the two where the Conservatives had famous victories , only Dr. Marjorie Mowlam won for Labour with a anti-Tory swing anything like that necessary to put the national outcome into hung parliament country . |
| 9 | The Battle of the Atlantic lasted for most of the Second World War . |
| 10 | Dr. Ashok Kumar won for Labour with a majority of almost 2,000 over Mr Michael Bates , Conservative . |
| 11 | At Christie 's , with Lord Carrington watching for much of the sale , bidding from three British and American dealers in the room competed with a telephone bidder for Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione 's ‘ Drovers by a pool ’ . |
| 12 | So much more convenient , then , if this Two Mower disappears for good in the barbarian lands . |
| 13 | Plenty of goals from the weekend 's football coming up , plus greyhound racing , cricket and Twickenham revisited for one of the region 's rugby clubs . |
| 14 | Indeed , the companies say that should the IEEE opt for one of the other proposals , for example that of Grand Junction Networks Inc , they will develop products for this technology alongside those for 100Base-VG . |
| 15 | The AA asks for more of the money taken in taxation from drivers to be put to work , and for road pricing proposals to be acknowledged as unnecessary , inflationary and , ultimately , inequitable . |