Example sentences of "[noun prp] for the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Across the Mersey , Wirral 's civic heads congregated in Wallasey for the wreath-laying ceremony . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There 's only one fresh face at Kingsholm for the new season … but that 's the all important one … |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | Roger McCarthy for the local authority . |
| 13 | Phaidon has signed an agreement with Chronicle of San Francisco for the exclusive distribution of Phaidon titles in the US . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Centre back Chris Whyte slipped and top goalscorer Fritz Walter expertly chipped over the advancing Lukic for the 63rd-minute opening strike . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Bernard Ingham in the Express tips Tony Blair for the Labour leadership . |
| 19 | Richard Clough for the local authority . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | No candidates were proposed by the advisory committee of the SCS for the forthcoming election . |
| 23 | This time , there is a break with tradition , an England A XI providing the opposition instead of the MCC for the four-day game . |
| 24 | When in May 1951 he returned from his holiday in Spain , for example , he had at once to prepare for three different public engagements in the following month — the first weekend was to be spent at Brighton for the annual meeting of the Alliance Française , occasions which he now found appallingly dull ; then he was obliged to make a speech on behalf of the Cecil Houses Trust for old people , and give an address at Chichester Cathedral . |
| 25 | For these stories plus the rest of the news , join me Ben for the extended bulletin at five on Trent F M. |
| 26 | The main purpose of Levin 's article , however , is to reclaim Debord for the aesthetic discourse of avant-garde cinema . |
| 27 | The ambition was what Gains , in his autobiography , calls the ‘ impossible dream ’ ; the colour line effectively prohibited him from challenging for the world title , though he did beat George Godfrey for the black version of the championship in 1928 . |
| 28 | He remounted immediately and set off in pursuit of the other runners , but as a Gold Cup trial the race was a mess , and the announcement that Jonjo O'Neill was once more to replace Mullins for the big race came as no surprise . |
| 29 | The land is rented to the village by Sir Ian MacDonald for the annual rent of one white rose . |
| 30 | On policy matters please contact one or both of Jim Macdonald for the National Programme , Lee Cousins for the Sub-National Programme . |