Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [conj] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , what is a man to do , deprived at a stroke of his habitual daily employment for forty years and living for the first time with his widowed younger sister who is always surveying him for signs of disorder , be they physical , emotional or sartorial , and nagging him about unpunctuality for meals . |
| 2 | Britain contains three areas that vie for the term of a ‘ mini ’ Silicon Valley ; they are centred on Bristol , Reading and Cambridge . |
| 3 | The Benghazi force again split into three columns and left for the Jebel at intervals from 4 September . |
| 4 | Some of these royal gifts presented the warden with a formidable task : in December 1238 the sheriff of Essex and Richard de Munfichet , warden of the forest of Essex , were ordered to take alive in the forest 120 bucks and does for the Count of Flanders , put them in cages , and transport them in carts to the Thames , where Raymond Ruffus , a yeoman of the king , was to have a ship ready to take them to Flanders . |
| 5 | My description of an amazing 18-light silver chandelier weighing over 2,500 ounces and made for the Duke of Abercorn in 1837 has , instead of a photograph of the Duke 's dining room at Baronscourt , where the chandelier had originally hung , one of the entrance hall . |
| 6 | He believes that the houses can survive next year only if they start making their own videotapes of performances , make a habit of exchanging productions among the 13 houses and pray for the arrival of pay-television in Italy . |
| 7 | To illustrate , we will reconsider the last example and assume that the individual did not close his position after five days but waited for the last trading day which was the following day . |
| 8 | During this run they won the South American Championship for the first time in 40 years and qualified for the World Cup . |
| 9 | It would have meant seven hundred vacancies and work for the jobless . |