Example sentences of "[noun prp] for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stourport 's Imran Sherwani was in Swindon for the qualifying rounds of the National Championships . |
| 2 | A thin , stoop-shouldered Frenchman wearing a pince-nez who had been watching and listening from the curbside , stepped into the road suddenly and leaned close enough to Chuck for the American boy to smell the garlic on his breath . |
| 3 | In general , we have to thank the Orient for the early breeds and North America for the late ones . |
| 4 | Across the Mersey , Wirral 's civic heads congregated in Wallasey for the wreath-laying ceremony . |
| 5 | Murray slip : Britain 's athletics selectors were left with red faces again today after picking world indoor champion Yvonne Murray for the wrong event at the European Cup . |
| 6 | Inspection of this helical pattern , together with the distribution in December 1953 of a report by Franklin of her work , gave crucial information to Watson and Francis Crick for the final building of their DNA model in February–March 1953 . |
| 7 | However , there was high praise from Pringle for the Scottish bowlers . |
| 8 | There 's only one fresh face at Kingsholm for the new season … but that 's the all important one … |
| 9 | But while international and long-distance tariffs have been reduced especially in the USA and Britain — the gap between costs and prices remains massive ; the price charged by Intelsat for the transocean telephone call from Paris or London to New York is multiplied by something like ten times when the customer is billed . |
| 10 | The Russian army team will earn more in the four-day trip to Germany for the European Cup crunch than they would in a month back home . |
| 11 | Big stock boats came from Russia and Germany for the salted Herring and it was a busy time when they were loading . |
| 12 | However , we have also been very grateful to WWF/UK for the valuable grants you have provided . |
| 13 | Soon Vickers at Barrow was building the Hercules for the Argentinian navy and then , under licence , helping it to build the Santisima Trinidad at Rio Santiago . |
| 14 | Seven months before , while Castile was — in his intemperate view — still dithering , he had set sail from Santa Maria for the coastal town of Acla , at what Indians told him was the narrowest and least topographically inconvenient part of the Panamanian isthmus . |
| 15 | With Rudi Bryson challenging Richard Snell for the dubious honour of joining Hugh Page , Fanie de Villiers , Steve Jefferies and Corrie van Zyl among the ranks of ineffectual South African pace imports , Joey Benjamin 's recent burst of form has also been instrumental in Surrey 's surge from the Britannic basement . |
| 16 | Since Death in Venice is also to be performed , would it not have been better to keep Grimes for the new house and to have included a Rossini opera as a nostalgic as well as topical reminder of golden evenings ? |
| 17 | Roger McCarthy for the local authority . |
| 18 | Phaidon has signed an agreement with Chronicle of San Francisco for the exclusive distribution of Phaidon titles in the US . |
| 19 | I travelled down to Gateshead for the big meeting there , Great Britain versus the Commonwealth , and was witness to one of the most amazing come-backs in British sprinting history made by , who else , that old war-horse Allan Wells . |
| 20 | Centre back Chris Whyte slipped and top goalscorer Fritz Walter expertly chipped over the advancing Lukic for the 63rd-minute opening strike . |
| 21 | Glasgow 's Joe Kelly , the British bantamweight champion , will fight Dane Johnny Bredahl for the European title after making the first defence of his crown against Drew Docherty of Croy on April 27 . |
| 22 | Also standing are Carrie Hynd for the Green Party while on a lighter note Ben Shotton and Owen Unsworth are campaigning for the Young Church Organist and Macweirdo Spectacular political parties respectively . |
| 23 | Bernard Ingham in the Express tips Tony Blair for the Labour leadership . |
| 24 | Richard Clough for the local authority . |
| 25 | Surely no one could think better of Jason for the quoted remarks ? |
| 26 | Mr Peter Bergg for the Liberal Democrats , Mr Michael Fallon for the Conservatives and Mr Alan Milburn for Labour meet at St. Cuthbert 's Church Centre tomorrow at 8pm to discuss homelessness , overseas aid , prison overcrowding , the maintenance of peace and electoral reform . |
| 27 | To be more accurate , I had gained dispensation from the CAA to carry out test-flights for the renewal of a C of A and from the PFA for the test-flight programme of a new homebuilt aircraft . |
| 28 | In the matter of relating Christianity to economics this is a vitally important assumption because we face great cultural and intellectual pressure as Christians to adopt a form of dualism in which we substitute Smith or Marx or Friedman or Hayek for the divine revelation as the ultimate authority in this area of life . |
| 29 | No candidates were proposed by the advisory committee of the SCS for the forthcoming election . |
| 30 | This time , there is a break with tradition , an England A XI providing the opposition instead of the MCC for the four-day game . |