Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [adv] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although recorded annually there is no regular winter population , and birds rarely remain for more than a few days except in severe winters , when considerable influxes occur . |
| 2 | All were prescribed as painkillers , with both Zomax and Opren widely prescribed for arthritic patients . |
| 3 | 189 was clearly nowhere near enough , and Fredericks alone accounted for 105 of the reply . |
| 4 | 13 1 ) that a man from Sybaris and another from Siris , both Italian towns , were among Agariste 's suitors at Sikyon ; and some of the poets patronized by the western Greeks had experience of mainland monarchy — Pindar and Simonides both wrote for Sicilian patrons : Pindar composed the Tenth Pythian , his earliest poem , for the Thessalian Thorax of Larisa , and Simonides had been patronized by Polykrates of Samos and Pisistratus of Athens in turn . |
| 5 | This is also the venue for the annual Howden Agricultural Show , which every year brings friends and visitors together to revel for two days in the old-fashioned atmosphere of an English country fair . |
| 6 | There were about 350,000 marriages last year and 174,000 divorces compared with 398,000 and 156,000 respectively in 1981 and remarriages now accounted for 36 per cent of all marriages . |
| 7 | Airtours and Owners Abroad compete for second place in the holiday market behind Thomson . |
| 8 | Thus in ( 191 ) , to feel evokes a new state of awareness which has arisen as a result of the combined effect on the reader 's mind of novels and tales previously selected for this purpose . |
| 9 | Despite the high hopes of Penal Policy in a Changing Society , recognizable authority in the shape of detection , arrest and prosecution still counted for more than prevention . |
| 10 | Despite the fact that these relationships are characterized by stronger obligations than any others , we find that in practice there is a wide range of experience of what parents and children actually do for each other . |
| 11 | Key to the improvements has been the reduction of bureaucracy and paperwork previously required for each truck load . |
| 12 | This is the longest stay recorded for any individual , but birds often remain for several weeks . |
| 13 | Adding life peers to the calculation inevitably reduces the Etonian proportion , but Eton still accounted for four hundred out of a total 1,156 , over one quarter of the entire chamber . |
| 14 | He croaked , ‘ Sorry to disappoint you , but princesses always fall for that line . ’ ’ |