Example sentences of "[verb] for the [num] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My horse is kept at a lovely yard 13 miles away : too far for many people 's choice , but the facilities and the people compensate for the 20 minute drive . |
| 2 | He left school at sixteen and immersed himself in the Labour Party , canvassing for the 1966 general election . |
| 3 | Allowing for the three major leakages of imports , savings and taxation , it has been calculated that for every £l paid to an employee in the UK , a further 80 pence of expenditure is generated throughout the economy . |
| 4 | These meetings are Making the most of the seventy fifth in shops , Involving young people in singing for the seventy fifth , Branches sharing fund raising ideas for the seventy fifth and Small World Theatre extracts from Moving , a play on the theme of refugees . |
| 5 | Handbill for the 1900 Olympic match |
| 6 | The incremental area under the curve was calculated for the 30 minute period of stimulation in each individual patient by the trapezoid method , after subtraction of the mean basal for that patient . |
| 7 | Survey formrs for the 1993 Good beer Guide will be dispatched to branches in late October . |
| 8 | Results were still awaited for the 10 non-Moslem seats . |
| 9 | At the Suffolk elections of 1705 and 1710 , 80 per cent of the clergy voted for the two Tory candidates . |
| 10 | Our idea — which would involve wheeling a building large enough to cover London 's Tower Bridge over the damaged reactor — gained us a $ prize and , more importantly , an automatic place on the short list for bidding for the 3 million ECU feasibility contract . |
| 11 | More than 80% mortality has been reported for the 32 documented cases of herpes B virus infection in man . |
| 12 | This approaches the highest transverse velocity so far directly measured ( PSR2224+65 ) but is less than velocities of 1,700 and 2,300kms -1 inferred for the two young pulsars PSR1800–21 ( W30 ; G8.7–0.1 ) , and PSR1757–24 ( G5.4–1.2 ) , respectively . |
| 13 | However , when the two letters to be matched were presented simultaneously , rather than successively , the pattern of results differed for the two visual fields in such a way as to suggest that the right hemisphere was still using a visually-based strategy while the left hemisphere was using an acoustically based strategy . |
| 14 | Mrs Kinnock , 47 , last month announced her intention to stand for the 1994 European Parliament elections in the South East Wales constituency . |
| 15 | The recording quality for standard 8mm is at least equal to VHS , and the comparison also holds for the two competing super-formats of Hi8 and S-VHS . |
| 16 | WHAT 'S BEING DONE FOR THE 11,000 DEAF AND BLIND ? |
| 17 | Lawyers acting for the 31 year-old double terror victim have recently entered into negotiations with Northern Ireland Office lawyers to settle a compensation case arising out of the first attack on him in which he lost a leg and suffered serious damage to an arm . |
| 18 | Apple Corps , acting for the three surviving Beatles , is suing Adam Cooper , 29 , for breach of copyright . |
| 19 | Roy Jenkins in 1965 was an exception , having gone on record in a book written for the 1959 general election with his personal , and unauthorized , programme for ‘ the wholesale reform of which the Home Office is still in urgent need ’ . |
| 20 | My Lord the er plaintiff Mr er telephoned the National Westminster Bank the following day in order to er make an appointment to discuss the finances further and an appointment was made for the twenty second of October . |
| 21 | Still no goals , it 's play to Gascoigne , Gascoigne now still going forward , Gascoigne on the edge of the penalty , looking for the one two , he gets the one two , great tackle there by Les Robinson , there 's still a chance to Spurs Steve Foster , chance now — and it 's a goal to Spurs . |
| 22 | Nayim now forward to Paul Stewart , sorry to Paul Allen , Allen lays it wide now to Fenwick , Fenwick to Gascoigne , Gascoigne cuts inside , this is where he 's his most dangerous , Gascoigne going forward looking for the one two to Walsh , to Gascoigne , Gascoigne 's on his way through , Gascoigne shoots — tremendous tackle — oh what a goal by Paul Gascoigne . |
| 23 | Table III shows overall results , and table IV results for the 26 ventilated infants . |
| 24 | Support for the two main clubs , Everton and Liverpool , still comes with a parental health warning about their respective religious pedigrees . |
| 25 | Individual partes have offered their backing to a wide variety of regimes , ranging from the Peruvians ' support for Velasco , the Panamanians ' generally favourable stand towards Torrijos and the Argentine Communists ' ( critical ) support for the 1976 military coup led by General Videla . |
| 26 | When they had been in the chemist 's buying shampoo , Mr Kennedy had asked what he could do for the two young ladies and they had been pleased . |
| 27 | It is the sweet street sound that heals the wounds of deprivation ; the dangerous music that Dorcas ' aunt blames for the 200 black dead in the 1917 St Louis riots ; a music of such unbearable sensual possibilities that parents vainly try to prevent their offspring from listening to it . |
| 28 | Is n't it strange that we are taught about many things which may never come to pass and yet most of us are not prepared for the one inevitable occurrence in our lives ? |
| 29 | The gift was signed by 92-year-old Mr Harry Moon of Earlston House , Coniscliffe Road , Darlington , who played for the 1923 Minor Counties side which took on the might of the West Indies . |
| 30 | A similar haze lies over the woods used for the two different models . |