Example sentences of "[num] [noun] for the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He entered Swindon 's record books , scoring 32 goals for the club in a single season . |
| 2 | The second question was whether it was lawful to pass sentences totalling 12 months for the offences in respect of which the appellant had been committed under Criminal Justice Act 1967 , s.56 . |
| 3 | The manager played more than 100 matches for the Cobblers in the early Seventies and , living three miles from the ground , he remains conveniently placed to keep tabs on potential signings . |
| 4 | The manager played more than 100 matches for the Cobblers in the early Seventies and , living three miles from the ground , he remains conveniently placed to keep tabs on potential signings . |
| 5 | There were , suggested David Rees , three reasons for the growth in numbers : |
| 6 | with his permission he thought it was funny he saw the funny side of it as well , but they had this big argument for five minutes cos he thought what he 'd done was right and he said Jesus , I 've been using this for three years for the training in the branch er it makes you wonder does n't it erm but if you 're gon na do practical applications you 've got ta give people relevant examples perhaps you start off basics with an example that is correct and then you start building on that do n't you then you start giving them the deviations and all this sort of stuff . |
| 7 | In short , we may recognise three sources for the similarities in bylaws of common field farming in the East Midlands : first , a pattern of intermingled parcels of land involving all classes of tenants and lords ; second , some commonly accepted principles governing social life , which may fairly be regarded as the necessary outcome of the first proposition ; third , a similar physical environment which influenced the choice of farming objectives ; and last , similar economic pressures arising from the basic human need for food , and developing along similar lines , as the market in agricultural produce expanded and communities were driven to pursue change in the same general direction . |
| 8 | For the record , John Browne 's polled 32,195 votes for the Tories in 1987 , Alliance candidate Jock Macdonald took 24,716 votes , Labour 4,028 and the Green party 565 . |
| 9 | It would take months for the rocks to cool off , and about a thousand years for the steam in the air to condense back into the seas . |
| 10 | THE SCOTTISH Commonwealth Games selectors were heavily criticised yesterday for naming a team of just 18 athletes for the Games in Auckland early next year . |
| 11 | In 1842 , for example , the government had provided twelve bursaries for the education in France of the sons of sheikhs or emirs of the Lebanon ; and a Jesuit seminary had been founded in Beirut a year later . |
| 12 | On March 5 , 1991 , he was given a further 27 years for the murder in January 1979 of Gen. Constantino Ortín Gil , a former military governor of Madrid [ see p. 29454 ] . |
| 13 | Granz had paid five figures for the painting in the early 1960s . |
| 14 | He had won the Dewhurst Stakes by six lengths as a two-year-old but had been a 33–1 chance for the Derby in the spring of 1953 until an impressive victory in the Newmarket Stakes brought his odds down to 8–1 . |
| 15 | The big western lakes , Conn , Corrib and Mask , are producing little at present and the Galway Weir produced only five salmon for the week in spite of excellent conditions for fly fishing . |
| 16 | One reason for the increase in the prison population during the 1980s was the rise in the number of remand prisoners awaiting trial or sentence . |
| 17 | Swindon author Dr Colin Francome , who co-wrote the book , explained at today 's launch that research shows that one reason for the increase in Caesarean operations is that consultants are afraid of a law suit if the baby 's born naturally and is n't healthy . |
| 18 | One reason for the interest in rates of home ownership among the older age groups is the potential of realizing the asset and using it to pay for care . |
| 19 | Organizing prisoner labour is , in fact , a very demanding job and one reason for the decline in its use was the effort it required of staff , including high level staff , to make it work properly . |
| 20 | One possibility for the decrease in antral carcinomas over time is a decrease in H pylori infection and hence a fall in the prevalence of chronic gastritis . |
| 21 | HARRODS chiefs the Al Fayed brothers broke the rules in the £615 million battle for the group in 1985 , the Takeover Panel said yesterday . |
| 22 | ( Two mentions for the column in the third issue . ) |
| 23 | They paid six hundred guineas for the painting in 1821 , but they did n't have the gallery space to do justice to the massive canvas , which measures 260 square feet . |
| 24 | Cottle and others succeeded in finding over three hundred subscribers for the Watchman in Bristol alone . |
| 25 | It was his fifth Test century of the year , and he passed 1,000 runs for the year in his eighth match . |