Example sentences of "[adj] for [n mass] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bawsinch Nature Reserve was bought in 1971 for £1,000 by the Scottish Wildlife Trust to provide a buffer zone for Duddingston Bird Sanctuary and provide additional habitats . |
| 2 | Of course it is right for people in the north-east to think of themselves as north-easterners . |
| 3 | An individual 's diet may vary for many reasons and while starvation is unusual in the Western world because of the availability of food , it is still possible for people in the West to suffer from inadequate nutrition . |
| 4 | ‘ And it 's quite usual for people in the Services to get married on the station . |
| 5 | I think this is rightly so , but there is an advantage to knowing to being slightly more explicit about how you 're doing it , and I think that if a lot of the evaluation that already went on in schools became a little bit more explicit and a little bit more open , it would be much easier for people outside the schools to realize the extent at which schools were themselves already engaging in evaluation . |
| 6 | The pride of Russia 's manuscript collection , it was legally acquired in 1933 for £100,000 by the British Museum . |
| 7 | After subtracting transactions costs of 0.5% , the future was overpriced 6% of the time , and underpriced for 46% of the observations . |
| 8 | The Birmingham Canal paid a dividend of 23 per cent in 1789 and in 1792 a single £140 share was sold for £1,250 ; another for £130 in the Staffordshire and Worcestershire fetched £1,100 . |
| 9 | pH >7 was used to define abnormal alkalinity in the oesophagus because in normal volunteers the pH of the oesophagus is between 4 and 7 for 96% of the time . |
| 10 | And most of us have a general sense that things are pretty gloomy for people in the Third World : we might remember that Sudanese women must walk hours in search of firewood , that Brazilian peasants are still going hungry , that children are dying all over the world of something as simple and easily treatable as diarrhoea . |
| 11 | It has n't been easy for people across the country it has n't been easy for businesses and it has n't been easy for the government to do it . |
| 12 | Youngsters do wheelies in bikes and cars and it is all very frightening for people in the area . ’ |
| 13 | WHEN CHARLES WEBB 'S novel The Graduate was first published in 1963 , Lawrence Turman , a 37-year-old independent producer with a couple of films to his name — The Young Doctors and I Could Go On Singing — read it , liked it and managed to acquire the rights in 1964 for $20,000 from the ingenuous author . |
| 14 | ‘ It must be terrible for people in the forces who have n't got a warm house to go back to . ’ |
| 15 | Within publishing , the overseas stocks lost a little of their importance , accounting on 30th September 1992 for 59% of the publishing segment , against 64% 15 months earlier . |
| 16 | This is particularly important for people in the older age group who encounter much prejudice about their ability to adapt to new working methods and ? or the stresses of high pressure production methods or computerized management skills . |
| 17 | The Ayrshire Cup competition for amateur football teams throughout the county will be sponsored by Scottish Nuclear for £1500 during the next two years with the option for the sponsorship to be extended to 1995/96 . |
| 18 | Major fisheries — those for cod of the North Sea , the anchoveta of the Eastern Pacific — occur in areas where , for various reasons , nutrients are stirred up from the bottom and the plankton can thrive . |
| 19 | In an analysis of Scottish plcs in the industrial and commercial sectors , P-E International 's Dennis Henry found that , from 1985 to 1986 , Caledonia haemorrhaged , losing control of companies responsible for 53% of the capital employed in January 1985 . |
| 20 | Pyramid Technology Corp has picked executive vice-president , Ed Scott , and former US sales vice-president , Robert Buhl to team up to develop and manage the company 's technology and strategic partnerships with vendors and integrators worldwide : the move is part of the firm 's four-month-old Open Data Center strategy ; Buhl has been named vice-president , strategic partners , reporting to Scott ; Pyramid 's chairman , Richard Lussier , will assume management of direct sales organisation and marketing oversight will fall to chief operating officer John Chen ; Mitchell Mandich , formerly Tandem Computers Inc 's western region sales director , is vice-president for the Americas responsible for sales in the western hemisphere and reporting to Richard Lussier . |
| 21 | However SparcWare 's gaze is firmly fixed on the 42 independent software vendors responsible for 60% of the product volume worldwide . |
| 22 | They will be available for townspeople in the square today . |
| 23 | The 1992/3 issue of Your Rights includes all the latest information and is available for £2.50 from the Age Concern shop , 150 Linthorpe Road , Middlesbrough , or by calling Lyndsay Eldon on . |
| 24 | Together they fought the general election of February , 1974 when UUUC candidates secured eleven seats out of twelve for 51% of the votes and also the UK general election of October 1974 when they secured ten seats for 58% of the votes . |
| 25 | It was common for people of the same sex to share a bed . |
| 26 | It was sold to Cohens with another works car on 9 June 1937 for £40 for the pair and removed to Walthamstow depôt yard for breaking up . |
| 27 | Perhaps after all it was nothing more than that the man reminded him of someone from the old days , and it was not unknown for people from the palace compound to slum in the harbour quarter now and then . |