Example sentences of "for [adj] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two men removed courses of bricks for half the distance round the base , at the same time replacing the bricks with timber blocks . |
| 2 | National Power were buying coal from Australia for half the price of the subsidized figure . |
| 3 | The £5m bid is twice as much as the offer from Argyll which owns the Presto and Safeway chains for half the ground in 1987 . |
| 4 | Even so , those who were fully employed were the fortunate ones , for half the population of Nottingham was on poor relief . |
| 5 | But then , there can be no difference between producing x units over a period at one site and unc units for half the period at that site followed by unc at another site for the rest of the period . |
| 6 | Ronnie Koeman captained the Dutch team for half the game after Johan Cruyff , the expatriate but hardly patriotic Dutchman who manages Barcelona , had ordered him to rest for a week . |
| 7 | If that continues during the 1990s , inflation averages 5% , and homes account for half the value of all bequests , Mintel thinks property transfers between generations will rise from perhaps £16 billion in 1990–91 to £25 billion in 1999–2000 . |
| 8 | Then I asked for half the fee in advance , and was given a wafer confirming the immediate transfer of the amount to my Fedbank . |
| 9 | They are also looking to gigs in Holland , France and Germany for 1993 the year for going into Europe . |
| 10 | Whilst for some the experience of ageing does bring with it a degree of social disengagement , it is far from being a ‘ natural ’ or inevitable event . |
| 11 | For some the trend of the 1990s is to move away from package holidays towards the individual tour where travel agents help the client to arrange a personal itinerary . |
| 12 | And that , according to a North-East psychologist , may be for some the secret of the chatline compulsion . |
| 13 | Indeed for some the distance between their home and Plymouth is longer than the journey from London to Bristol . |
| 14 | Many women will still require surgery ; for some the treatment of cancer with drugs is n't appropriate . |
| 15 | For some the love of the chase becomes an end in itself . |
| 16 | For some the answer to this is the ethnic minorities that constitute a significant part of Romania 's population . |
| 17 | For some the strain of living together without legal ties leads to considerable anguish . |
| 18 | For some the holding of one of these posts was just one stage in their careers , for others a succession of such posts appears to have become a career in itself , though one must be careful to emphasize that there is not enough evidence to suggest that there was in the case of the muderris/muftis anything like as clearly defined a career structure as in the case of the muderrises and the kadis , that there was , in effect , a comparable to the and the . |
| 19 | This sometimes leads to a resentment of the teachers responsible for guiding the youth into sport , particularly if it becomes obvious that the interest in the youth was purely because of his sporting success . |
| 20 | Figure 3.8 illustrates for 1979 the dominance of large firms in private sector unions . |
| 21 | Control subjects that experienced training in which the immediate consequences of the light did not differ in their reinforcing value from one trial to another ( for these the interval between the offset of the light and food delivery was fixed and thus did not depend on whether it contained a tone or a clicker ) showed a steady decline in the frequency of the OR . |
| 22 | We estimate that for 1992 the cost of this work will be around £1.2 million , or two per cent of our costs . |
| 23 | Under Venezuela 's five year plan for 1984–1989 the profile of debt payments allows for annual growth of 2.5 — 5.5% but whether this can be achieved is highly dependent on oil prices and quotas since oil accounts for over 90% of exports . |
| 24 | Yet , for all the goodwill of the government , the position of the nobility was gradually being eroded . |
| 25 | It just seemed that the Ferrari superiority was such that racing must be terribly boring for all the rest of the drivers . |
| 26 | Here I come , the great man himself , the master of the house , the wage-earner , the one who makes it possible for all the rest of you to live so well ! |
| 27 | It 's a dreadful bore for all the rest of us . ’ |
| 28 | Their problem was that , for all the clarity of their insistence that God was on their side , their world was a complex , not a simple place . |
| 29 | But it is certainly the object of quantum mechanical discourse and , for all the peculiarity of its collapse , its subtle essence may be the form that reality has to take on the atomic scale and below . |
| 30 | Farmer 's Diary : Back up in town , for all the fun of the country fair |