Example sentences of "[noun pl] [subord] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is very difficult to give any precise figures to illustrate or establish this ; but a rough count of the twelfth-century marriages noted in three volumes of the Complete Peerage reveals that among the English upper classes of the twelfth century it was much commoner for a lady to have two or more husbands than for a man to have two or more wives ; in the cases noted , almost twice as common ( 36 to 19 ) . |
| 2 | Then a silence began to fall on every living thing around the Cages except for a Man running , not towards Woil but to the visitor caught by the hand in the talons of Creggan . |
| 3 | All records are for coastal grasslands except for a party of 27 on Glynde Levels on 26 February 1956 . |
| 4 | Taxation On an off-market purchase the company is treated in the same way in tax matters as for a market purchase : it will have to pay ACT on the distribution element of the purchase price . |
| 5 | The two men have different versions of the meeting which followed , and there were no witnesses except for a waiter who interrupted them in the middle of the shouting match and asked if they wanted any sandwiches . |
| 6 | This might not seem small in petrol engine terms but for a diesel it is quite dinky . |
| 7 | They are jawless , blind and without fins except for a fringe around the tail . |