Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun pl] for the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | P&O EUROPEAN FERRIES ( Portsmouth ) are acting as Principal Sponsor of the Chichester Festivities for the third year running . |
2 | HGCA figures for the first half of the 1992–93 season show Ipswich exporting ten per cent of all British wheat . |
3 | As prepared to leave the Basingstoke premises for the last time , she said : ‘ While it is difficult to take in the reality of the situation after all this time , we are delighted that the initials continue to have prominence under a new and synergetic banner . ’ |
4 | Last night they confirmed they will be offering only 619 seats to Tottenham fans for the final League game of the season at Old Trafford on May 2 . |
5 | The right results could see the East Anglians overhaul faltering favourites Blackburn Rovers for the first time . |
6 | Is it not also the case that the cost of one or perhaps two years ' worth of the administrative introduction of the NHS changes for the internal market would again result in the same figure ? |
7 | The effects of this move were that in 1990 Hungary 's trade with the European Communities ( EC ) was expected to exceed that with Hungary 's COMECON partners for the first time . |
8 | The Navy can be said to have won the first round of the long-running carrier battle , which was to bedevil Naval-Air relations for the next decade . |
9 | Any change is likely to set the framework for the distribution of NHS finances for the foreseeable future . |
10 | As you will see the Q.T. days for the 1989/90 programme have been arranged with one day at the beginning of each term , as requested by you the teachers , and reflect the requests and feed-back given during the past year . |
11 | Jean Parmiter expressed her grateful thanks to Beryl for arranging the Q.T. days for the coming year at Quintin School . |
12 | In the Union Territory of Pondicherry elections for the 30-seat assembly were held on June 15 . |
13 | And speedway action returns to Oxford tonight as the Cheetahs try to takes the sting out of the Coventry Bees for the second time in a week . |
14 | In 1964 , when Pople left the UK for the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh , as it was then called , his departure inspired one popular British newspaper to the headline Another brain down the drain , but given the lamentable levels of financial support by successive UK governments for the theoretical research in which Pople was to excel , it is unlikely he could have achieved so much without moving . |
15 | Most of the overseas owners brought their distinctive stainless-steel cars — which achieved cult status after featuring in Steven Spielberg 's ‘ Back to the Future ’ film trilogy — to join Ulster owners for the biggest gathering of the cars in the province since the Dunmurry factory closed . |
16 | There was also a major upset in Ballymena , where the DUP lost control of the council to the Ulster Unionists for the first time in 15 years . |
17 | The solution of the Cadiz liberals for the colonial desire for self-government was the concession of full political rights to American citizens within a unified empire ; the colonies were an integral part of metropolitan Spain and would be ‘ freed ’ , with the same constitution that gave Spain herself freedom . |
18 | Fielding candidates for the first time in 1987 , it had a PV of 11.8 , but a PS of only 8.4 . |
19 | The oldest European trees seldom exceed 700 or 800 years , so that European explorers seeing California redwoods for the first time were awestruck by their size and age . |
20 | We can not have a Briton winning the US Masters for the first time again , nor a Briton putting the green jacket on yet another Briton for the first time again . |
21 | Our thanks go to the Surrey , Berks and Oxon girls for the lovely tea at the April meeting . |
22 | Caroline Streets for the local authority . |
23 | As the Jensen measure is an absolute measure it is not as appropriate as the Sharpe and Treynor measures for the relative comparison of portfolios with different levels of risk . |
24 | Acting as Port Agent for P&O Cruises for the first time , Ellerman & Bucknall were responsible for a range of activities all aimed at ensuring a trouble free visit for Canberra in both Durban and Cape Town . |
25 | Almost half of the seventeen DUP candidates for the 1973 Assembly were Free Presbyterians . |
26 | That 's easy to believe when you see the joy on these children 's faces as they meet Disney characters for the first time . |
27 | In February a ceasefire was established after King Hassan met Polisario leaders for the first time . |
28 | This course is based on Scotvec modules for the first year . |
29 | We do n't really know a lot about how much sediment load they 've been carrying because we have been measuring the amount of material being carried by Sussex rivers for the last decade to two decades , so our level of information is very , very low . |
30 | The need to separate the functions of chairman and chief executive has been a raging debate in City of London parlours for the past couple or years , and companies at which the two roles are combined in one person have been under enormous pressure to accept a separation of powers : now the same debate could take off across the Atlantic as Compaq Computer Corp 's ( non-executive ) chairman Ben Rosen tells the House Telecommunications and Finance Subcommittee that the troubles that have beset some of America 's largest companies can be traced to cozy relationships between their boards and their chief executives — he declares that the boards of most US companies are chaired by the company 's chief executive , who picks the board members and controls the agenda — ‘ With an appropriate form of corporate governance , I fully believe that the current problems of IBM , Digital Equipment , Westinghouse and other major American corporations could have been addressed and probably solved far earlier with much reduced ill effects , ’ Rosen told the legislators , adding that a company 's chairman should be a ‘ truly outside independent director , ’ not the chief executive or a former chief executive , and that all board members , with the exception of the chief executive , should also be outsiders , who should get their directors ' fees in the form of shares or options . |