Example sentences of "for [pron] [prep] [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chief preoccupation of Methuen 's later years , apart from his painting , and one for which he denied himself many luxuries , was the restoration , maintenance , and improvement of Corsham Court , the family seat , and of the collection of pictures which hung in the magnificent gallery built and furnished for them in the 1760s . |
| 2 | I was saying the single biggest difference for me between the two sides has A been the passing but also the movement . |
| 3 | The violence of this transition became more cushioned for me in the mid-seventies , when we built our bamboo and coconut-wood home in the highlands of Bali , which for seven years now has served us as a sort of decompression chamber between the two worlds . |
| 4 | When your income is not much above five or six pounds a week , as it was for me in the seventies , even a tin of dog food is out of the question . |
| 5 | Lot number ninety Lot number ninety , the horn box the horn box and cover is showing for you for a hundred pounds one hundred pounds any more at one hundred pounds ? |
| 6 | Erm , I mean I could generate P H D theses for you by the dozen out of all this . |
| 7 | Pushing the joystick in the direction of travel results in a low , grubhunting kick , slap it in the opposite direction to give a high lob , and leave it in neutral for something between the two . |
| 8 | Only in recent years has it been taken over as the civic centre , and the Goose Fair relegated to the outer suburbs ; but for something like a thousand years it was the market place . |
| 9 | Chesterfield wills and inventories show that the manufacture of woollen cloth — the most important industry in Tudor England — was basic to both the urban and the rural economy , for one in every three or four people in the parish had equipment such as spinning wheels , cards or looms or small quantities of wool . |
| 10 | ‘ They 've solved the ulcer problem for nearly everyone , but for one in a hundred it does n't work . |
| 11 | He was retained by the king as one of his serjeants between 1287 and 1293 and is to be found acting for him in the 1287 Gloucestershire eyre and in the northern circuit eyres of 1292–3 as well as in the Common Bench and in the Exchequer . |
| 12 | Little was done for him in the three years up to his seventeenth birthday when , like so many others , he found companionship and , ironically , the security he craved for by joining the army . |
| 13 | Of course , that is what we have to look for , and , of course , there are inevitably going to be occasions when we are compelled to look for it outside the four corners of the language that the draftsman has used . |
| 14 | The West Ham Trades Council resolved that conscription was a serious threat to the labour movement , and summoned Thorne to explain his support for it at the 1916 Labour Party conference ( East Ham Echo 12 February 16 ) . |
| 15 | The case of DEC is tantalising : either the Alpha will do for the company what the VAX 8600 — quickly supplanted by the VAX 8650 — did for it in the 1980s , and the vast installed base of VAX machines will be replaced by Alpha AXPs , giving the company three years of fantastic growth that propel it to $25,000m , or the desperately late Alpha and the new OpenVMS will turn out to have too many bugs and glitches to be trusted , in which case , DEC will be trotting off after IBM . |
| 16 | It can be seen from this that although David Barclay senior was not ‘ the founder of Barclays Bank ’ as he has sometimes been named , his sons James , David , and John were important early partners in the bank , and the mercantile fortune he had built up an important source of capital for it from the 1770s . |
| 17 | It told me things about life in the mills and factories I 'd never have found out for myself in a thousand years . |
| 18 | Having ‘ failed ’ to find the curriculum or examination version of the Holy Grail for themselves during the sixties and seventies ( and having exhausted themselves in the process ) the schools are , at the moment , resigned to accepting a string of panaceas from without — the YTS/TVEI initiatives are now being superseded or subsumed by the National Curriculum cure-all . |
| 19 | Headhunters , who mostly have a fee based upon one-third of the first year 's guaranteed compensation , did very well for themselves in the 1980s by recruiting many of these people who can make an outstanding contribution in terms of revenue to their organisations . |
| 20 | He says being a little forgiving I could praps forgive them a little for us on the 1952 test , the first , but I ca n't forgive them for what they did to these other lads on the later tests , they must have known something from Nagasaki , Hiroshima and Bikini atoll tests . |
| 21 | John soon made a niche for himself in Palace 's defence , making his debut at home to Bristol Rovers ( 1–0 ) the day after his signature had been obtained , and scoring his first goal for us in the 8–2 FA Cup demolition of Harwich and Parkstone three weeks later . |
| 22 | Speaking by its swimming pool , playboy Count de Beaumont said Mellor never attempted to pay for anything during the 1990 holiday . |
| 23 | Royston Marley 's decision to work a permanent nightshift means he is now unavailable for anything but a three o'clock kick-off . |