Example sentences of "[noun prp] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should like to take this opportunity to thank all the employees of Johnson Matthey for the skilled and dedicated service that resulted in this year 's record performance |
| 2 | Stourport 's Imran Sherwani was in Swindon for the qualifying rounds of the National Championships . |
| 3 | Mick and Lisa Hayes have lived at Haydon Wick in Swindon for the past 9 years . |
| 4 | A thin , stoop-shouldered Frenchman wearing a pince-nez who had been watching and listening from the curbside , stepped into the road suddenly and leaned close enough to Chuck for the American boy to smell the garlic on his breath . |
| 5 | The parade complete , all repair to the NAAFI for the traditional celebratory drink . |
| 6 | In general , we have to thank the Orient for the early breeds and North America for the late ones . |
| 7 | Across the Mersey , Wirral 's civic heads congregated in Wallasey for the wreath-laying ceremony . |
| 8 | Murray slip : Britain 's athletics selectors were left with red faces again today after picking world indoor champion Yvonne Murray for the wrong event at the European Cup . |
| 9 | Inspection of this helical pattern , together with the distribution in December 1953 of a report by Franklin of her work , gave crucial information to Watson and Francis Crick for the final building of their DNA model in February–March 1953 . |
| 10 | However , there was high praise from Pringle for the Scottish bowlers . |
| 11 | There 's only one fresh face at Kingsholm for the new season … but that 's the all important one … |
| 12 | But while international and long-distance tariffs have been reduced especially in the USA and Britain — the gap between costs and prices remains massive ; the price charged by Intelsat for the transocean telephone call from Paris or London to New York is multiplied by something like ten times when the customer is billed . |
| 13 | The Russian army team will earn more in the four-day trip to Germany for the European Cup crunch than they would in a month back home . |
| 14 | Big stock boats came from Russia and Germany for the salted Herring and it was a busy time when they were loading . |
| 15 | That struggle shaped Germany for the subsequent two centuries and it also determined much of the shape of Europe prior to the First World War . |
| 16 | Every one of the European allies by whose side she had fought against Nazi Germany for the previous two years was now defeated and occupied . |
| 17 | The 1990 Act remains firmly within the philosophy and structure of welfare provision characteristic of Germany for the past 100 years . |
| 18 | Luck had been on Cassie 's side up until now , for Stephanie had been working in Germany for the past few weeks and this circumstance had removed the necessity of proffering an invitation ; with , of course , the desirable Martin in attendance . |
| 19 | I 've been staying with Aunt Alicia for the past six months … |
| 20 | However , we have also been very grateful to WWF/UK for the valuable grants you have provided . |
| 21 | Over 60 school pupils from all over the Strathclyde travelled to Hunterston in Mid-June for the annual Mathematical Challenge Prize Day organised by Glasgow University . |
| 22 | Soon Vickers at Barrow was building the Hercules for the Argentinian navy and then , under licence , helping it to build the Santisima Trinidad at Rio Santiago . |
| 23 | Seven months before , while Castile was — in his intemperate view — still dithering , he had set sail from Santa Maria for the coastal town of Acla , at what Indians told him was the narrowest and least topographically inconvenient part of the Panamanian isthmus . |
| 24 | With Rudi Bryson challenging Richard Snell for the dubious honour of joining Hugh Page , Fanie de Villiers , Steve Jefferies and Corrie van Zyl among the ranks of ineffectual South African pace imports , Joey Benjamin 's recent burst of form has also been instrumental in Surrey 's surge from the Britannic basement . |
| 25 | Since Death in Venice is also to be performed , would it not have been better to keep Grimes for the new house and to have included a Rossini opera as a nostalgic as well as topical reminder of golden evenings ? |
| 26 | Roger McCarthy for the local authority . |
| 27 | Phaidon has signed an agreement with Chronicle of San Francisco for the exclusive distribution of Phaidon titles in the US . |
| 28 | The City Centre road races , held in Newcastle and Gateshead for the past five years , have been switched to Aberdeen on May 16 following the end of General Portfolio 's sponsorship . |
| 29 | I travelled down to Gateshead for the big meeting there , Great Britain versus the Commonwealth , and was witness to one of the most amazing come-backs in British sprinting history made by , who else , that old war-horse Allan Wells . |
| 30 | Centre back Chris Whyte slipped and top goalscorer Fritz Walter expertly chipped over the advancing Lukic for the 63rd-minute opening strike . |