Example sentences of "[noun prp] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ It turned out to be extremely good for me because within twenty-four hours of leaving I was asked to go to Hollywood and prepare Scrooge for Paramount Pictures . |
| 32 | A man has been admitted to hospital after sitting in his Saab for five hours with the motor running and a hose connected to the exhaust . |
| 33 | Charles followed his advance band rapidly , and laid siege to Pavia for several months . |
| 34 | However all these composers are overshadowed in historical importance by a Flemish master of all-round achievement , Adrian Willaert ( c. 1490–1562 ) , pupil of Mouton in Paris , who served the court of Ferrara for several years from 1522 but went to Venice as magister cappellae at St. Mark 's in 1527 and spent the rest of his life there . |
| 35 | Born and bred a Land Rover , but crossed with the might and muscle of a Range Rover , it 's just the machine for enterprising City types who at the end of the week want to swap Hampstead and Fulham for ambitious adventures to the ends of Britain 's motorways . |
| 36 | The employees worked at Fulham for three weeks but were dissatisfied with the conditions there . |
| 37 | As a spotty student , I worked in a large hotel in Fort William for four months , and grew extremely fond of it . |
| 38 | Crawford travelled to San Francisco for two days with director Richard Lester to see a screening of How I Won the War . |
| 39 | I also suggested that he go and live in San Francisco for six months , where he might see for himself and in practice the ideal which Jesus Christ was talking about , which is far removed from anything the Church of England ever practises in this country . |
| 40 | However , the vandalism to the signalling system in the Birmingham area terminated all trains from the Cambrian and Chester/Shrewsbury areas at Wolverhampton for some weeks from Christmas . |
| 41 | Left panel : Nuclei from K562 cells were isolated and treated with 20µg/ml of DNaseI for increasing lengths of time ( t ) from 0 to 20 minutes at 37 ( indicated by a gradient above each panel ) . |
| 42 | Mrs Welch , head of trans-European and overseas initiatives , has been at Longlands for six years , moving there from Saltburn Comprehensive where she was head of physics . |
| 43 | ‘ Peter Kavanagh supported Patrick for 40 years . |
| 44 | Further food for thought : Cohen Griffith , the winger Kettering signed for £3,000 from Leicester United last season , has joined Cardiff for 20 times that amount ; the GM Vauxhall Conference leaders Darlington will defend a 10-match unbeaten start , the best in the competition 's 10 years , tomorrow at Enfield ; and Dunstable have withdrawn from the FA Cup following the 38th-minute abandonment of the tie with Staines when what was left of their team walked off after the dismissal of three colleagues . |
| 45 | He 's been breeding Herefords for 45 years and it breaks his heart to see us importing rubbish from overseas . |
| 46 | We found tragic proof of this on the most bitter 1 March for many years . |
| 47 | Apparently following a plea by the newly returned Uniate Cardinal Miroslav Lubachivsky [ see p. 38104-05 ] , Khmara had finally been released pending trial on April 5 after almost five months in investigative custody ( the delay in bringing him to trial resulted from the original indictment having been withdrawn by the prosecution in early March for further investigations ) . |
| 48 | Details were first announced in March for three concerts — in Belfast , London and Dublin — in aid of Northern Ireland 's young people . |
| 49 | And then I went to Hereford for six months and I did er six months of medicine , and that was a long way from home in Essex and er we all sort of er mucked in and er made our own entertainment and cooked for each other and that erm was quite a good time . |
| 50 | Bath have already put pay to two Central South sides ; they demolished Oxford 82:9 and then hit Hereford for 48 points . |
| 51 | Josephine Kelly has lived in Hereford for 15 years and is an ex mayor of the city . |
| 52 | But it also signals the end of an ancient rite rejoicing in human warmth and in the sun 's return.Susanna Rance has lived and worked in Bolivia for several years . |
| 53 | Susanna Rance has lived and worked in Bolivia for several years . |
| 54 | Such a lifespan is not uncommon for a captive tortoise , the oldest one recorded being a male , which lived on Mauritius for 152 years . |
| 55 | I managed to corner Gary for 15 minutes during his going-away party and asked him to share something of his call from God . |
| 56 | Mr Storm has been Town Clerk of Nairn for forty-two years . |
| 57 | It is of a rock type not common to the immediate area , the nearest appears to be found at Cayton and Cornelian Bays , ten miles distant , and is believed to have been brought to Rudston for religious reasons , since it was there long before the church . |
| 58 | Capital and energy costs together would come out at about $25 per barrel to give it a dose of 2.5 Mrad for 2–3 minutes , which would be highly competitive with incineration . |
| 59 | Liberal MP for Hull for twenty-five years , was elevated to the peerage in 1904 as first Baron Nunburnholme . |
| 60 | In the face of continued violence by armed bands the Army commander , Lt.-Col. Desi Bouterse , agreed to requests from Brunswijk for direct talks and a meeting between the two was held in Paramaribo on Dec. 19 . |