Example sentences of "[noun prp] for [art] [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the authors lived in St Helens for the last three weeks of the strike , becoming as immersed as possible in all aspects of the activities of the strike committee . |
| 2 | Many of the best women tennis players from home and abroad will be competing in Swindon for the next 7 days . |
| 3 | Mick and Lisa Hayes have lived at Haydon Wick in Swindon for the past 9 years . |
| 4 | Britain 's fight for better budgeting terms dominated much of the debate within the EEC for the first ten years of British membership , masking the more important questions of sovereignty and Federalism . |
| 5 | That struggle shaped Germany for the subsequent two centuries and it also determined much of the shape of Europe prior to the First World War . |
| 6 | Every one of the European allies by whose side she had fought against Nazi Germany for the previous two years was now defeated and occupied . |
| 7 | The 1990 Act remains firmly within the philosophy and structure of welfare provision characteristic of Germany for the past 100 years . |
| 8 | Luck had been on Cassie 's side up until now , for Stephanie had been working in Germany for the past few weeks and this circumstance had removed the necessity of proffering an invitation ; with , of course , the desirable Martin in attendance . |
| 9 | I 've been staying with Aunt Alicia for the past six months … |
| 10 | Extend your stay and travel , by air , to Cairo , for a 3 night stay , before returning to Luxor for a final 4 nights to unwind . |
| 11 | The City Centre road races , held in Newcastle and Gateshead for the past five years , have been switched to Aberdeen on May 16 following the end of General Portfolio 's sponsorship . |
| 12 | Philip , who is to take his A Levels this summer , has been studying at Repton for the last few months and will join the Academy in August , two months after Zara arrives at the Academy 's Hemel Hempstead base . |
| 13 | Janet gave up her secretarial job , and devoted herself to caring for Lisa for the next six months . |
| 14 | PSBR for the first seven months hit £20.2bn , up from £8.7bn previously . |
| 15 | Now that Cadfael came to think of it , less than usual had been seen and heard of Jerome for the past few days , ever since the evening when he had been discovered on his bed , quaking and sick with bellyaches and headaches , and been soothed to sleep by Cadfael 's stomachics and syrups . |
| 16 | In the following month the Japanese Deputy Foreign Minister , Kunihiko Saito , had visited Moscow for the first working-level negotiations on the dispute since the termination of the Soviet Union . |
| 17 | Thank you to Tony Hannant , Andrew Black and Simon Parrock for the following fascinating titbits . |
| 18 | Not only was it a loss to the series of Malcolm Hulke for a good many years , it was also a nail in the coffin of the show 's bid to be genuinely educative . |
| 19 | Mr Young , 77 , who directed the James Bond movies Dr No and From Russia With Love , has lived in Cannes for the last 20 years . |
| 20 | It 's been sitting on the forecourt of a garage just outside Ross on Wye for the past few weeks , and is gaining a considerable amount of interest from passers by … but as yet no one is very serious about buying it . |
| 21 | The Esso England Junior squad goes to Stockholm for the annual eight nations international contest with Lee Dalzell ( GatesheadWhickham ) , Susan Rolph , Anthony Day , Craig Eldred and Nick Sultman ( all Newcastle ) in the team . |
| 22 | It 's been Huey , George , Ralph and Bert for the last few days , liquid laffs ahoy . |
| 23 | On Aug. 26 the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha approved the extension of president 's rule in Jammu and Kashmir for a further six months from its expiry on Sept. 2 . |
| 24 | I took a siesta in the shade , and when evening rolled around was feeling fit enough to head back into Bandera for a few more beers at the Silver Dollar . |
| 25 | Dorset missed the services of Lee Sabin for the first two rounds . |
| 26 | The South Korean government 's policy of nordpolitik — the improvement of relations with communist regimes previously loyal to communist North Korea — pursued since 1988 , entered a new phase on June 4 when President Roh Tae Woo met President Mikhail Gorbachev for the first direct talks between a South Korean and Soviet head of state . |
| 27 | But Bob Bagnell , who has imported charcoal from Indonesia for the last four years , says his source is not endangering the environment . |
| 28 | Rigoberta Menchu has lived in exile in Mexico for the past 11 years , yet the only weapons she has used in that time have been words . |
| 29 | He coached Fareham , then managed Gosport before arriving at Basingstoke for the last three games of last season . |
| 30 | He coached Fareham , then managed Gosport before arriving at Basingstoke for the last three games of last season . |