Example sentences of "[prep] [num] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Scottish Natural Heritage figure is up over the grant in aid for 1991-92 for the Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland and the Scottish Countryside Commission by 21 per cent . |
| 2 | Figures for 1991 for the South West show the rate had fallen to 12.2 whereas for Northern Ireland it had dropped to 16.5pc . |
| 3 | Despite US-European commercial rivalry , the American hopes of 1948 for the creation of a stable , thriving , anti-communist Europe had arguably been fulfilled . |
| 4 | Coulton , joint favourite in some lists for the Champion Hurdle on 16 March , heads a list of eight for the Tote City Trial Hurdle on the same programme . |
| 5 | The applicants contemplate use of the procedures in sections 234 to 236 of the Act of 1986 for the purpose of obtaining information , but those powers are only available to the applicants if they are ‘ office holders , ’ a term defined as including administrative receivers : see section 234(1) of the Act of 1986 . |
| 6 | Further the average score of 57.9 for the degree results of the non-standard entry mature students was significantly greater than the average score of 50 for all students . |
| 7 | The highest efficiency ( 83% ) occurs with an sweat spot test score of 12 for the demarcation of normal from abnormal subjects ( sensitivity 0.83 , specificity 0.82 ) . |
| 8 | In a series of transactions in 1992 , we sold substantially all our US and Canadian onshore interests , receiving some $250 million , and a further Can$88 million is expected at the end of 1993 for the remainder of our shareholding in ELAN Energy Inc. [ formerly LASMO Canada inc ] . |
| 9 | The vote on Hinchliffe 's Bill two weeks ago produced a vote of 188 for the Bill and only one against . |
| 10 | The Government has set a target date of 1991 for the development of occupational standards relating to the majority of occupations in the UK . |
| 11 | Later Scandinavian sources suggest a date of 1027 for the battle of Holy River , but this is rendered implausible by chapter 13 of the Letter sent by Cnut to England in that year , which mentions people who had tried to deprive him of his kingdom and his life , but whose power had been destroyed by God , and says that he is returning from Rome to Denmark to make peace with them . |
| 12 | From the combined results Thomas 's group estimated an average particle size of 100 for the copper metal aggregates . |
| 13 | Tuesday was the day of the week with the poorest attendance levels — averaging about 17 users compared with an average of 26 for the rest of the week — and senior Contact staff had little control over the situation . |
| 14 | On average , they get nearly 11 prescriptions per head per year compared with the lowest figure of six for the North West Thames region . |
| 15 | FORMER Middlesbrough boss Bruce Rioch is understood to be on a shortlist of six for the manager 's job at Darlington . |
| 16 | On the basis of the 1981–85 baseline there is a target reduction of around 1,435 casualties from a figure of 4,302 to one of 2,867 for the year 2000 . |
| 17 | The defendants to proceedings begun in New York by the families and personal representatives of persons killed in an air crash in Scotland in 1988 applied for an order under the Act of 1975 for the examination of a retired Crown servant who during his period of employment as a senior forensic scientist had conducted an investigation into the crash . |
| 18 | The deadline of 1992 for the removal of frontier controls is therefore unlikely to be met . |
| 19 | Life expectancy is reckoned to be 69 years , compared with an average of 57 for the whole of the country . |
| 20 | Most of the residue of fourteen for the rest of Britain were concerned with river improvement . |
| 21 | Captain Edward Tupper made attempts to organise at various fishing ports from April 1910 , and claimed a fishing membership of 5,000 for the NSFU in 1919 which appears not to have survived the post-war depression . |
| 22 | In July 1936 he gathered in his palace at Bishopthorpe a select team of ten for the purpose of preparing for the coming ecumenical conference . |
| 23 | The food , the truckloads of champagne , accommodation , fees for the gala stars and 800 musicians , and air fares for many of the guests add up to a bill of millions for the weekend . |
| 24 | The Russian minister sent to Constantinople in 1724 was ordered to choose four students to be attached to his staff to learn the language ; while the establishment of 1779 for the college of foreign affairs , which provided for two students to be attached to each Russian mission abroad , allowed that in the Turkish capital to have as many as eight . |
| 25 | There could be a complete reshuffle of the class of '93 for the play offs. 5 of the side are currently injured , including striker , Dave Mitchell and player manager , Glenn Hoddle . |
| 26 | One careful observer , a British Quaker , gave a figure of 800,000 for the period between 1 July 1921 and April 1922 . |
| 27 | I was truthfully able to award eighteen points out of twenty for the spring onion soup , nineteen for the marinated chicken , nineteen for the mango mousse and the coconut pudding , and a full twenty for the fish curry ( Goans ca n't abide a meal without fish ; and expatriates have been driven to sprinkling dried fish on baked beans ) . |
| 28 | Of the relatively few exceptions to the pattern two which call for mention are Chicheley Hall , Buckinghamshire ( 1719–21 ) , and Sutton Scarsdale , Derbyshire ( begun 1724 ) : the exotic façade of the former probably owes more to the taste of the patron , Sir John Chester , than to Smith 's own devising ; but Sutton Scarsdale , in part evidently inspired by Gibbs 's unexecuted design of 1721 for the university buildings at Cambridge , is his finest work , a wholly convincing essay in the heroic grand manner , in which the giant Corinthian order is handled with total assurance . |
| 29 | Tallichet 's B-17G was based at Duxford during the summer of 1989 for the filming of Memphis Belle . |
| 30 | Pursuant to the Directives ' aim to promote comparability of the accounts of companies of the various member States , companies are required to adopt one of two prescribed formats for the balance sheet and one of four for the profit and loss account but in doing so they may use either the prescribed ‘ historical cost accounting rules ’ or the ‘ alternative accounting rules ’ which pay greater recognition to the impact of inflation by a type of current cost accounting . |