Example sentences of "and [noun] for [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Birkbeck , Joyce passed the intermediate examination for his BA and then read English language and literature for the second part of his degree . |
| 2 | The parquet of the floors alternates with stone and the colours of the walls were chosen after innumerable trials : mostly pale grey and tobacco brown , with pale green for the Neo-classical works and terracotta for the nineteenth century . |
| 3 | In return , the Edinburgh branch of the STA was to maintain peace on all questions of wages and hours for the next three years . |
| 4 | The government 's overall aim was to freeze spending on state-owned enterprises , social security and defence for the next four years . |
| 5 | I am afraid I could only manage part of the meal and I cut out the second and third courses completely , and only had gravy and vegetables for the third , but most people at my table went right through the menu ! |
| 6 | By the early part of the last century two kinds of hospital had emerged that set the pattern for finance and provision for the next 150 years ( Abel-Smith , 1964 ) . |
| 7 | As I did n't want to undergo the inconvenience of surgery to remove the offending gall bladder , I opted for virtually fat free eating , with the miraculous side effect of acquiring slim hips and thighs for the first time in my adult life ( see photograph on next page ) . |
| 8 | A public road threads a delightful passage through woodlands in the company of river and loch for the first few miles , ending at a car park from which further progress is possible only by walking — and further progress should certainly be made . |
| 9 | In 1892 , the union 's expenditure exceeded its income and reserves for the first time . |
| 10 | As more cars came , they took over the Fleetwood service , until on 10 March 1953 , there was a complete service by Coronations between Starr Gate and Fleetwood for the first time . |
| 11 | Neck and neck for the last hurrah |
| 12 | Once the system has accepted an in put from the tablet it gives an acknowledging Beep from the computer and prompts for the next command to execute the function . |
| 13 | Tan heard Bach and Beethoven for the first time , and ‘ totally forgot about myself ’ . |
| 14 | Previous abridgements of the Philosophical Transactions had been carried out on a piecemeal basis , whereas Baddam 's version provided continuity and uniformity for the first time ( see Nichols 's summary of them in the above , pp. 482–3 ) . |
| 15 | It 's been Huey , George , Ralph and Bert for the last few days , liquid laffs ahoy . |
| 16 | Digital Equipment Corp reports a $27m contract for personal computers and services from Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co : under the five-year deal , DEC will provide hardware , software , installation and maintenance for the next generation of the firms business management system . |
| 17 | Talks took place between China and Taiwan for the first time since the Communists took control of China in 1949 and the former Nationalist government fled to Taiwan . |
| 18 | In this way , the novelist Virginia Woolf and the painter Vanessa Bell , sisters at the heart and hearth of the Bloomsbury Group , had established the Sussex outposts which would prove a magnetic draw to friends and acquaintances for the next quarter of a century . |
| 19 | A further promotion will be run on the Pedigree Chum and Whiskas calendars which will be sold through pet shops and supermarkets for the first time ever . |
| 20 | Miles MacLagan and Andrew Richardson , both 17 , will be wearing Lotto shoes and clothing for the next three years . |
| 21 | He thought of Hugo , who had revolutionised his own thinking , who had made him challenge and question for the first time . |
| 22 | The cost to the UN of the UN Protection Force ( UNPROFOR ) , whose mandate would be reviewed every six months , was estimated at between $400,000,000 and $635,000,000 for the first year . |
| 23 | Secondary schools are also keen to establish positive relationships with neighbouring primary schools so that their school becomes the automatic choice of child and parent for the next phase of education . |
| 24 | Gloucester , which saw active service in the Gulf War , will monitor traffic to and from Serbia and Montenegro for the next few months . |
| 25 | The Department has been organising seminars for writers , publishers and booksellers for the last fifteen years . |
| 26 | The FDIC will keep the worst $5.5 billion of Bank of New England 's $20 billion of assets , and promises for the next three years to take back any more loans that go bad . |
| 27 | There were also special political factors at work : in 1992 Spain was to host both the Olympic Games and celebrations for the 500th anniversary of the ‘ discovery ’ of the Americas , and an improved rail transport system was seen as essential . |
| 28 | If you 're buying a propagator with inner liners divided into cells , be sure to buy an extra supply of cells so that you can move one batch of seedlings out when they have germinated , and make use of the base and lid for the next batch . |
| 29 | In Mexico , the private sector was able to take advantage of the new seeds , but the peasants on ejido land , often unable to get credit and farming for the first three years without fertilisers were not so productive . |
| 30 | With three years of system building and integration under its belt , the company intends to focus on software distribution and development for the next two or three years . |