Example sentences of "for [adj] [conj] [det] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The back of the ship was high out of the water , and I was very thankful for this because all the ship 's food was there . |
| 2 | Mm , I can never remember the formulas , like your dad said formula for such and such a thing is so and so and that , but I could never remember them so I was no good then , because I could n't remember it |
| 3 | ‘ I realise your intentions are clean , but those words push my button ( for such and such a reason ) . ’ |
| 4 | The huge warehouse centres , already a major success in the US , will sell high-quality clothes , including some designer brands , for less than half the price charged by leading chain stores . |
| 5 | The huge warehouse centres , already a hit in the US , will sell high-quality clothes , including some designer brands , for less than half the price charged by leading chain stores . |
| 6 | Until recently the profit margin has been tight , with an implant selling in Britain for less than half the price charged in the rest of Europe and the United States . |
| 7 | They would build you a made to measure rod for less than half the price of a shop-bought article . |
| 8 | AV 4300s can be upgraded with a second CPU for £5,400 , doubling the power from 29 to 58 MIPS for less than half the cost of the original machine , according to DG . |
| 9 | He had been asleep for less than half an hour . |
| 10 | It was a conquest which would be theirs for more than half a century . |
| 11 | This was all part of a romanticising process that has afflicted Pygmalion for more than half a century . |
| 12 | The Open Spaces Society , which is by far our oldest environmental pressure body has for more than half a century been encouraging the continuance of the ancient practice of Beating the Bounds by parish and community councils and local groups . |
| 13 | Fergie 's antics plunge Royal Family into its biggest crisis for more than half a century |
| 14 | For more than half a century , in accordance with the collector 's will , the paintings occupied their own suite of first-floor galleries . |
| 15 | The new Hermitage director has worked there for nearly two years as assistant academic director under acting-director Vitaliy Suslov , but he has been connected with the museum almost all his life ; his father , Academician Boris Piotrovskiy ( 1908–90 ) , was on the staff at the Hermitage for more than half a century , and was its director for twenty-six years before his death en poste . |
| 16 | But Daphne 's dear familiarity , the pleasure of her company , the comfort of knowing pretty well what she would say in response to any remark , the whole warm , easy , ancient closeness that had subsisted between them for more than half a century , won over Cecilia 's temporary , though profound , embarrassment . |
| 17 | Thereafter the accelerating rate of population growth coincided with the ending of the bounty of generally good harvests to turn the trend in the cost of living sharply upwards , while in most regions the increase in the labour force changed a labour market in which wages had generally held up for more than half a century . |
| 18 | R-A-F Hullavington has been putting into practice its motto — Service To Many — for more than half a century . |
| 19 | The Bugatti Owners Club has been holding meetings at Prescott Hill near Cheltenham for more than half a century . |
| 20 | The base has been training airmen for more than half a century . |
| 21 | Cellophane , a leading manufacturer of packaging films for more than half a century , launched its quality systems registration effort two years ago , with and in charge . |
| 22 | The environs of the waterfall are pleasant enough and there is no suspicion of the Peril 's dark secret unless a small opening under the overhang of the cliff alongside is noticed : this insignificant hole admits to the largest cave system in the valley , underground passages extending for more than half a mile below and far beyond the road in a succession of tight crawls and large caverns . |
| 23 | The raiders fled empty-handed and Iris — who has n't competed in a race for 57 years — chased after them for more than half a mile . |
| 24 | The incomparable asset of Pau is the Boulevard tea Pyrenees , which runs for more than half a mile along the southern edge of the main town , between the chateau at one end and the casino and the Parc Beaumont at the other . |
| 25 | Mr Boris Yeltsin , the president of Russia , may have won the battle , but he has not yet won the war he has been fighting for more than half a year with the Congress of People 's Deputies . |
| 26 | SUCH of that European history which came to so terrible an ending in and around the battlefields of the Somme had its beginnings in the north Rhineland town of Aachen , Charlemagne 's capital , Aix-la-Chapelle ; because it was here , for more than half a millennium , that the Holy Roman Empire celebrated its mysteries . |
| 27 | Thus quantified , the environmental cost of oil comes to 5.56p per kilowatt-hour ( kWh ) , with corrosion and damage to buildings accounting for more than half the total and damage to crops from pollution for just under a fifth ; " old " coal burned in conventional power stations without emission controls has a cost of 5.00p/kWh ; " new " coal 1.18p/kWh ; combined heat and power ( CHP ) stations 0.45p/kWh ; nuclear pressurized-water reactors ( PWR ) between 0.32p and 0.37p/kWh ( not including effects on plants and animals ) ; and solar , wind and hydroelectric power between 0.04 and 0.07p/kWh ( not including visual impact or disruption caused by construction of dams , etc ) . |
| 28 | The number has increased gradually from 1,087,000 in 1968 , though natural increase ( excess of births over death ) accounted for more than half the rise in 1979-1980 , the last year for which figures are available . |
| 29 | It has been estimated that the pope was compulsorily absent for more than half the century between 1099 and 1198 and for a total of 67 years in the next century ( 1198 – 1304 ) . |
| 30 | 5 No subdivision of the X -axis should account for more than half the range of the X -values found in the data . |