Example sentences of "[num] for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oxford have dropped down into the bottom half of the table , after losing by 1-0 for the third match running . |
| 2 | It was built around 1590 for a younger son of the Earl of Shaftesbury , whose family had owned the manor of Restrop for three hundred years , The coat of arms of the Ashley-Coopers ( the Shaftesbury family name ) is over the door , and it is very unlikely that such a very fine house , with its particularly beautiful roofs over the projecting bays , would have been built for a tenant farmer . |
| 3 | Hussein was treated in hospital in Amman on June 11-13 for an irregular heartbeat . |
| 4 | Skipper Arjuna Ranatunga ( 76 ) and Hashan Tillakaratne ( 43 ) then steadied the ship , adding 92 for the fifth wicket . |
| 5 | A miner 's resting heart rate can be between 40 and 60 beats a minute , compared with about 70 for a typical male . |
| 6 | Beck had a final round of 70 for a 12-under par total of 276 , but it was a tight finish , particularly when he bunkered his second shot behind the 18th green . |
| 7 | NICK FALDO was scotched on the rocks but toasted a scintillating 70 for the halfway lead in the £1.8 million Johnnie Walker World Championship here yesterday . |
| 8 | With this in mind , Botham chose to field first , only for Greenidge and Haynes to put on 168 for the first wicket . |
| 9 | But the show did give UK users a first chance to see Borland 's Paradox for Windows , Lotus 's Freelance Graphics 2 and its revolutionary new Windows spreadsheet , Improv ( see page 97 for a full review ) . |
| 10 | The award , worth £20,000 , is given to ‘ a British artist under fifty for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work in the twelve months preceding June 1992 ’ and was granted by a jury consisting of Nicholas Serota , director of the Tate Gallery , Marie-Claude-Beaud , director of the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain , Robert Hopper , director of the Henry Moore Sculpture Trust , Sarah Kent , art critic of Time Out magazine and Howard Karshan , representative of the patrons of New Art . |
| 11 | Sheep entries set a new record , and topped 500 for the first time . |
| 12 | Meanwhile disturbing evidence had begun to accumulate about the relatively poor performance of children of Afro-Caribbean and Asian origin in schools ( see Tomlinson , 1983 , pp. 27–59 for a useful review ) . |
| 13 | Taking account of all the knock-on of effects on productivity and business , a cut finger might cost a company £782 , and the cost could escalate to £15 306 for a broken arm . |
| 14 | According to government figures in the first nine months of 1991 the number of immigrants of German origin ( Aussiedler ) fell to 166,786 from 337,394 for the same period of 1990 , but the number of asylum-seekers rose from 143,826 to 169,785 . |
| 15 | Senior officials from India and Pakistan met in New Delhi on Nov. 5-6 for the fifth round of talks on the Sir Creek border dispute relating to the demarcation of maritime boundaries in the Great Rann of Kutch [ see pp. 38153 ; 38533 ] . |
| 16 | Henderson 's alternative explanations have not been substantiated , but Brown and Harris 's basic model has been confirmed and supplemented in further studies both in Islington in London and in a rural community in North West Scotland , and the original findings have been replicated by other investigators in other areas ( see Brown and Harris , 1986 for a recent review ) . |
| 17 | The precise form this differentiation takes varies from community to community ; for example it is likely to be manifested differently in pre- and post-industrial societies and to vary in accordance with culturally determined roles assigned by societies ( see Coates 1986 for a general discussion of the issues ) . |
| 18 | ’ An examination of these five kinds of sacrifice , and of the system of belief underlying these two statements , reveals a symbolic world in which aggression and tranquillity are viewed as opposing principles held in uncertain balance by ritual action ( see Gibson 1986 for a full account ) . |
| 19 | The spot marks the place where where hundreds and thousands gathered in February 1986 for a popular uprising that overthrew the late President Ferdinand Marcos , and made Mrs Aquino the President . |
| 20 | The spot marks the place where where hundreds and thousands gathered in February 1986 for a popular uprising that overthrew the late President Ferdinand Marcos , and made Mrs Aquino the President . |
| 21 | On July 29 the Northern Ireland appeal court in Belfast released three out of four of the former Ulster Defence Regiment ( UDR ) members imprisoned for life in 1986 for the 1983 murder of a Catholic man [ see p. 34318 ] . |
| 22 | Within the framework established by the Education ( No. 2 ) Act 1986 for the head teacher to be in overall control of discipline in a school ( taking account of the governors ' policy on discipline ) , the law is content to allow teachers much discretion in the enforcement of school rules and application of sanctions . |
| 23 | ( Silcott remained in prison , to complete a separate life sentence imposed in 1986 for an unrelated murder committed in 1984 . ) |
| 24 | Patrick earl of Bothwell made two bonds of manrent , one to Mary in August 1543 for a yearly pension of £1000 , the other to her great rival regent Arran in January 1546 , not for the normal term of his life , but for as long as Arran remained governor . |
| 25 | STEVE ELKINGTON kept cool in wet and windy conditions yesterday to shoot a two-over-par 74 for a two-shot victory in the Australian Open golf championship in Sydney . |
| 26 | But then more wickets fell , and the eighth was down for 103 ; only for Logie and Bishop to put on 74 for the ninth wicket , and when Logie was last man out just two short of a well-deserved hundred , the score was 199 . |
| 27 | Mansell hit a second-round six over par 79 for a two-round total of 164 to miss the cut by 14 shots . |
| 28 | They wanted 79 for an unexpected triumph ; but then Wessels , after a true captain 's innings , failed to add to his overnight 74 when Lara held a superb stooping slip catch off Walsh . |
| 29 | On April 7 the 32-strong UK Conservative group in the EP joined the Christian Democratic European Popular Party ( EPP ) group , bringing its numbers to 162 as compared with 180 for the largest group , the Socialists.The Conservatives had asked to join the EPP group after the 1989 European elections but protracted negotiations had resulted from Belgian , Italian and Netherlands Christian Democrats scepticism about the Conservative commitment to Europe . |
| 30 | We can gain some idea of this from data included in the household survey cards compiled in 1929–30 for the New survey of London life and labour ( see Appendix 1 ) . |