Example sentences of "for [adj] [noun pl] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boyle had been , with one short break , continuously in Government office for eleven years and was to be the last Minister of Education , as Butler had been the first . |
| 2 | For all her strange behaviour in rehearsals and in the office , she had held her position as director for eleven years and during that time the Tiller troupes still commanded the highest respect and dominated all other dance troupes . |
| 3 | You have been Disney Professor of Archaeology at Cambridge for eleven years and since the mid-Sixties you have held posts at the Universities of Sheffield and Southampton . |
| 4 | Canon Claude Rutter , who was rural dean of Sherborne for eleven years and is now the diocese 's Rural Link Officer , agrees with him . |
| 5 | Mr Patten , speaking at a fringe meeting at the tory conference made the remarks about Professor Tim Brighouse who ran schools in Oxfordshire for eleven years and now heads Birmingham 's education department . |
| 6 | In the second , more optimistic ending , Pip returns to the forge after working abroad for eleven years and goes to Hoe and Biddy and finds they have a son , also called Pip . |
| 7 | Lindsey and Pete had started talking about having a baby when she was fourteen , and did so the following year : Pete and me had been together for eleven months and loved each other more than words could say . |
| 8 | With evacuation and the Movement 's preference for rural settings for foster homes and hostels , younger children were often isolated in small village primary schools , where they were a curiosity to the other children and to the staff . |
| 9 | He needed a wife for professional reasons and I was it . |
| 10 | Aside from the eclipses , January , February and March are key months for professional matters and your personal aspirations . |
| 11 | Now it is a major shopping centre and a centre for professional services and newspaper printing . |
| 12 | In Northend ( Inspector of Taxes ) v White and Leonard and Corbin Greener and Others ( The Times , 26th February 1975 ) , a firm of solicitors receiving interest on a general client account with a bank was held in this case not to be entitled to earned income relief in respect of the interest because it had not been earned in return for professional services and was not ‘ immediately derived ’ from the carrying on of their profession . |
| 13 | Analysing the 1966 data , at a time when the average level of unemployment stood at 2.6 per cent , he found that the rate for professional workers and those in supervisory grades was 0.6 and 1.3 per cent , respectively ( ‘ Is there a dual labour market in Great Britain ? ’ , |
| 14 | Alternatively , copies may be available by writing direct to the director for professional standards and development at the UKCC . |
| 15 | The Corpus of Knowledge was developed from the findings of wide ranging research and has provided a basis for all of HCIMA 's education initiatives , such as programmes of study for professional qualifications and the national Accreditation of Prior Learning network and the introduction of an Industrial Experience Scheme for teachers . |
| 16 | As a preliminary design medium for professional illustrators and designers markers are often used on bleedproof marker paper , a specially coated surface that accepts marker pen cleanly without any fuzziness of edges resulting . |
| 17 | I am on the bus for Fifty-five minutes and the journey begins to get quite boring . |
| 18 | Their preference is for broad agreements and mutual understanding . |
| 19 | The round pencil can be used for all subjects ; whilst the flat pencil can be used for broad strokes and the finest lines , when worn to a chisel edge . |
| 20 | In poor physical condition they set off under the blazing sun , marching for fifty minutes and resting for ten . |
| 21 | ‘ It took a lot of thinking about — living in your own home and happy there for fifty years and suddenly to give it away . |
| 22 | We also have the Castle Court development , complete with massive subsidies from the British government , which was built on the backs of the Smithfield traders , some of whom had been there for fifty years and whose original conception of a shopping complex run by local people was hijacked . |
| 23 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
| 24 | I think they 've got their cost structures er a a little bit out of line and I have to be honest that I think that some of them have thought that er all you have to do is , you know , keep a brass plate outside your door for fifty years and the work would roll in . |
| 25 | Went to see Forever Young with Mel Gibson , the one where he 's frozen for fifty years and then he wakes up in |
| 26 | badge for fifty points and then you get advance certificate for a hundred . |
| 27 | Here he envisaged that the state apparatus could operate much more autonomously from direct control by capitalists , where the class struggle is equally balanced , creating a temporary history-making role for political leaders and state bureaucracies . |
| 28 | Only the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats made nominations for political services and , apart from Sir David Steel , there are just three backbench knighthoods . |
| 29 | OPEC is often cast as a super-villain , holding the world economy to ransom for political motives and disrupting an otherwise smooth pattern of growth . |
| 30 | That 's been partially responded to some people suspect for political reasons and rushing to that on report and I think we need to consider that in a more way . |