Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [noun pl] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barry Stewart , prosecuting , said Sinclair , who was born with only one arm , was a persistent confidence trickster who had served a sentence of 18 months imprisonment for deception in 1990 . |
| 2 | Later in that year , after the queen had been escorted to England , Roos was appointed constable of St Briavel 's Castle ( Gloucestershire ) for life , and , in December , received a grant from the king of 1,500 livres tournois for the defraying of the expenses of his French journey . |
| 3 | During the trial the court heard that the vessel had been travelling from Libya to the Republic of Ireland with the last of five arms shipments for the IRA , the previous four having got through undetected . |
| 4 | It had been travelling from Libya with the last of five arms shipments for the IRA . |
| 5 | Secondly , in accordance with the Wolfenden recommendations Clause 2 of the Bill set a penalty of five years imprisonment for the offence of buggery committed by a man over 21 with a consenting youth over 16 . |
| 6 | Among his many other notable designs were the Dome of Discovery at the Festival of Britain ( 1951 ) ; Auckland harbour bridge , the Wye bridge on the Welsh side of the Severn crossing , the Volta river bridge ( later known as Adomi bridge ) in Ghana , and the new Maidenhead bridge ; radio telescopes in Australia and Canada ; and two goliath cranes of 400 tons capacity for use in the construction of nuclear power stations . |
| 7 | This poster of 1906 lists opportunities for families , married couples , single people and boys . |
| 8 | and we 'll be back at Jackdaws Castle in ten days time for the official opening by the Princess Royal … finally tonight we 've got the result of our Nigel Mansell competition … thanks for all your cards … we had hundreds and here 's how it finished |
| 9 | The spokeswoman said : ‘ The Russian embassy in Baghdad has confirmed that both men were sentenced on June 6 to eight years imprisonment for illegal entry . |
| 10 | Fawehinmi , charged over a magazine article in which he accused Babangida of planning to cling to power , had already been sentenced on Jan. 5 to 12 months imprisonment for contempt of court , but had been released on bail pending an appeal . |
| 11 | One of ETA 's senior leaders , José Antonio Urrutikoetxea Bengoetxea " Josu Ternera " , was on Nov. 26 sentenced by a court in Paris to 10 years imprisonment for membership of a terrorist organization , and banned from residence in France for five years after his release . |
| 12 | Mrs Mandela , who was sentenced to six years imprisonment for complicity to kidnap and assault , is free on bail pending an appeal . |
| 13 | A 26-YEAR-OLD Dungannon painter was banned from driving for 25 years and sentenced to six months imprisonment for a drink driving offence when he appeared at Newry Magistrate 's Court yesterday . |
| 14 | A joyrider who crashed his car and killed a partially sighted pensioner has been sentenced to three years custody for causing death by dangerous driving . |
| 15 | There 's also been a particularly extreme case ; last year in July when a Northampton man was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for merely kissing and fondling another man in a churchyard in the middle of the night . |
| 16 | General Communication Inc , Anchorage , Alaska has now completed the sale of a 30% stake in itself to MCI Communications Corp for $13.3m . |
| 17 | The dearth of new commercial building projects means the stockpile — equivalent to 14 weeks sales for Ibstock — is not going to shrink in a hurry . |
| 18 | Miss Drew , whose nom de plume is Linzi , was sentenced to four months incarceration for her part in promoting the kind of graphic material which Victorians euphemistically described as facetiae . |
| 19 | I am sitting opposite the Baroness — who was acquitted in August 1989 of the murder of her ex-husband Simon Dale , and in April this year sentenced to seven years imprisonment for forging the will of her elderly aunt , Lady Illingworth , and for stealing more than £500,000 from her — in the visitors ' room at Askham Grange prison , outside York . |
| 20 | You got half an hour plus ten minutes relief for your refreshments and that would happen at ten in the morning and you 'd been there since seven . |
| 21 | A blood sample was taken five minutes after completing the drink and further samples were taken at 10 minutes intervals for 90 minutes . |
| 22 | Serum gastrin was measured twice before with an interval of 15 minutes and at 15 minutes intervals for one hour after eating a standard test meal of one slice of white bread , one boiled egg , 150 ml of milk , 150 ml of yoghurt , 50 g of cheese , 20 g of sugar , and 25 g of butter . |