Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] [prep] [adj] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the Foxhall Hotel , a single track leaves the Promenade line and runs down the centre of the narrow Princess Street , turning into Blundell Street , Here until 1982 stood the original tram depot , as rebuilt in 1898 for the conversion of the system to overhead line . |
| 2 | In 1982 , the Joint Liberal/SDP Commission for Constitutional Reform calculated that if in England there was , as compared to the 1979 general election , an even switch of votes from the Labour and Conservative Parties to the Alliance such that each of the three groupings secured 33 per cent of the vote , then the Alliance would still only gain 56 seats as compared to 207 for the Conservatives and 253 for Labour . |
| 3 | On April 7 the 32-strong UK Conservative group in the EP joined the Christian Democratic European Popular Party ( EPP ) group , bringing its numbers to 162 as compared with 180 for the largest group , the Socialists.The Conservatives had asked to join the EPP group after the 1989 European elections but protracted negotiations had resulted from Belgian , Italian and Netherlands Christian Democrats scepticism about the Conservative commitment to Europe . |
| 4 | As of May 20 a total of 6,700 Vietnamese boat people had arrived in Hong Kong since January ( as compared with 6,600 for the whole of 1990 ) , and the arrival of 387 on May 7 was the highest recorded daily influx since 1989 . |
| 5 | Because the Bolt Thrower 's energy is divided between four individual bolts the strength of any hit is 4 as opposed to 5 for a single shot . |
| 6 | Fit the 7.50x 16 as fitted to 110 for a better ride and tyre life from the radial tyres . |