Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poor weather in the US contributed to the first fall in profit before tax at Tate & Lyle for 14 years . |
| 2 | They 're farmed out to East Peckham or Chertsey for five years . ’ |
| 3 | In a strong response to a consultation paper , the RIBA challenged the Government 's underlying assumption that CCT for architectural services is needed to provide better value to the citizen . |
| 4 | He visited North-East towns including Darlington , Barnard Castle , Durham and Middlesbrough for eight days for a study of regional manners commissioned by Northumbria Tourist Board . |
| 5 | Born and bred a Land Rover , but crossed with the might and muscle of a Range Rover , it 's just the machine for enterprising City types who at the end of the week want to swap Hampstead and Fulham for ambitious adventures to the ends of Britain 's motorways . |
| 6 | I have known Rob and Sarah for ten years and their constant support , encouragement and friendship have been invaluable . |
| 7 | At the 1988 tournament , held in Hong Kong , South Korea and Japan emerged first and second respectively and went on to play Western Samoa and Tonga for two berths in the 1991 World Cup . |
| 8 | Their first real taste of life on the road came in December when they stayed over after playing London and Brighton for four days . |
| 9 | Later , new ports were developed at Sunderland Point and Glasson for larger ships than could negotiate the estuary as far as Lancaster itself . |
| 10 | We watched from our window as Mick Jagger gave his free concert in Hyde Park , stood on our seats at the Albert Hall for Janis Joplin 's last performance , and traipsed to Avebury and Stonehenge for equinoctial celebrations . |
| 11 | Say , for example , they choose Friday , Saturday , Sunday , Monday and Tuesday for successive weeks and ringed them on the calendar . |
| 12 | The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) has recommended action , possibly including trade sanctions , against China and Taiwan for illegal dealings in rhino horn and tiger products . |
| 13 | The nature of those sources is part of the explanation : no comic play survives in anything like complete form earlier than the beginning of the Peloponnesian War , and Thucydides for artistic reasons ( like Tacitus delaying the introduction of Sejanus until the opening of the second half of his six ‘ Tiberian ’ books ) , delays the introduction of the arch-demagogue Kleon until Pericles is off the stage for good . |
| 14 | Supermarket property developers have been scouring Cornwall , Devon , Somerset , Avon and Dorset for suitable sites in a concerted research drive covering the income potential of every postcode district , the location of residential areas , traffic flow and key road junctions . |
| 15 | The Union has been in the interests of both this country and Scotland for many years , and it remains so . |
| 16 | The repeated observations were studied using paired t test and NOVA for repeated measures . |
| 17 | The vice-chairman of the county council , Coun Hywel Thomas , of Llanfairfechan , supported her and said the quarry had provided ‘ the bread and butter ’ wages of people at Penmaenmawr and Llanfairfechan for 150 years . |
| 18 | N.B. Main departure dates are as described ( Friday for 3 nights and Monday for 4 nights ) . |
| 19 | The commitment on global warming fell short of calls by European countries and Canada for specific ceilings on emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases causing global warming . |
| 20 | Centred around Exmoor in northern Devon , where the climate is wet and humid , with cold , rough winters and an exposed environment , this was the dominant breed of Devon and Somerset for several centuries . |
| 21 | Figure 2 shows that treatment of HT-29 cells with DNJ and DMJ for 48 hours reduced the expression of α 3 , α 6 , and Β 1 to 55% to 70% of that of untreated controls . |
| 22 | The commercials — ‘ Cinema ’ ( above ) and ‘ Department Store ’ — broke nationally on July 15th and will run during July and August for six weeks before returning at Christmas . |
| 23 | When rival gangs began fighting for black market spoils , the ethnic war which has engulfed Sarajevo and Bosnia for 10 months spilled over into Stup . |
| 24 | A JP of Middlesex and Westminster for many years , he searched for papists and for popish books , and was employed by the committee of the House of Lords for the examination of witnesses , dominated by Shaftesbury . |
| 25 | Taking over the isolation hospitals did not appeal , and the clerk of the council said that , in the event of the council 's not being able to find sufficient beds at Ampthill and Biggleswade for non-sick patients , it would be necessary to have a lien on the accommodation at Bedford and Luton institutions when they were taken over by the Regional Board . |
| 26 | It is notable , what is more , that the contempt of Orwell and Waugh for simplistic systems like apartheid and communism — black or prole versus white or bourgeois — has nothing , in the end , to do with egalitarianism . |
| 27 | With the decision to scrap multilateral preliminary talks , the USA decided to send Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Berle , who was in charge of civil aviation matters , to Canada and Britain for bilateral talks . |
| 28 | Calls in America and Britain for further cuts in interest rates underline how easy it would be to repeat the mistake . |
| 29 | The 26 students and three teachers , from Xirivella near Valencia , in eastern Spain , stayed with families in Macclesfield , Congleton , Wilmslow and Poynton for ten days . |
| 30 | Raper was jailed for two years and Allen for six months , Sir Nicolas saying it was one of the most serious contempts he had ever come across . |