Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | GaAs was first used successfully in the 1960s for instrument applications such as light-emitting diodes , lasers , visual display units and audio disc players . |
| 2 | Minimalist works were originally made in the Sixties for loft spaces . |
| 3 | Thalidomide , the drug prescribed in the Fifties for morning sickness , is the most infamous example . |
| 4 | Purists are giving the thumbs up to the Everton away strip in salmon and navy which , according to Umbro , harks back to the 1880s for inspiration , while Man Utd 's basic blue and Ipswich Town 's nod towards the Thirties also appeal . |
| 5 | Italy and Switzerland electrified their main-line railways early in this century , but the UK had to wait till the 1960s for electrification from London to north-west England , and the late 1980s to Yorkshire . |
| 6 | At a time when what would seem to have been a ‘ Carolingian connection ’ can be identified in insular art , architecture and archaeology , a Carolingian emphasis on the importance of increasing the number of metropolitans and re-establishing metropolitan authority is likely to have created a context by the mid-780s for consideration of the situation in the Anglo-Saxon Church where the archbishop of Canterbury presided over as many as twelve suffragans . |