Example sentences of "[adj] for [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leicestershire finished on 289 for 9 … quite a total for Buckinghamshire to chase in sixty overs , , their start was slow but sure … |
| 2 | Strangely we find that its diamond shape was less like the present day Delta with its rigid leading edge spars than the design by George D. Wanner of Dayton as filed 11 months prior in January 1948 , as against November 1948 for Rogallo . |
| 3 | This makes sense to the degree that one of the legal authorities whom Coke most often cites is Bracton ( Henry de Bracton , De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae ) , who dies in 1268 , having flourished under Henry III of England and during the minority of Henry 's son , the future Edward I. Moreover Edward and Eleanor spent the winter of 1270–71 in Sicily , en route to the Holy Land , and returned there in 1272 for Edward to learn that , his father having died , he was king of England . |
| 4 | Rates of maternal mortality are much higher in the developing than in the developed regions , averaging 10.1 and 9.3 , respectively , for nine Northern European countries and for Canada and the United States combined compared to about 80 deaths per 100,000 live births for the Arab World and around 70 for Asia and Oceania . |
| 5 | The Group says , production , home sales and exports have all been outstanding for Austin Rover and Landrover vehicles . |
| 6 | I said I 've got an invoice outstanding for October , and I said I ca n't afford to do that ! |
| 7 | The government also made efforts to persuade Saudi Arabia to resume oil supplies , including making a payment of US$6,000,000 outstanding for June oil bills . |
| 8 | I understand names like Paraguay 's Juan Carlos Giminez , who had to pull out of a previous challenge with a damaged hand , Americans Darrin Van Horn and Lindell Holmes plus Italian Vicenzo Nardiello have already been short-listed for November . |
| 9 | Due for Sarah to come round soon to have it trimmed again ai n't you ? |
| 10 | Special mention is also due for Dorothy TeeBoon , John Rowlands and Hughie Maguire with 30 years ’ service . |
| 11 | SPIKE LEE 's new film Malcolm X , due for US release in November , will spawn two soundtrack albums . |
| 12 | Armed with an excellent debut album , ‘ A Sonic Holiday ’ ( due for UK release soon ) , a sense of humour , a glam image and just a trace of youthful cockiness , this is a band to watch . |
| 13 | Persistence Software Inc , based in San Mateo , California , will be releasing its Persistence 1.0 C++ application development tools in beta in September with commercial ships due for October . |
| 14 | The publicity the film attracted in Cannes followed Nicholson back to America where it was due for New York opening in July which , as Karen Black told me later , was an odd time : ‘ It was a college film and so it goes on release at exactly the same time as the colleges are closing down for the summer and everyone is going home . ’ |
| 15 | No SSP is due for Monday to Wednesday . |
| 16 | For the electricity which is normally paid in arrears we should take ⅓ of the bill paid 1 February for January and make an estimate for the amount due for November and December . |
| 17 | Pablo Riveroll of Baring Securities in Mexico City says the investment could be hugely profitable for Televisa in the long term , but notes that it will bring the firm no net profit until 1996 . |
| 18 | At that time , too , fertilizers were a bedrock and continued to be highly profitable for ICI . |
| 19 | But UUUC voters were not so persuaded and their first preference votes varied from 2,609 for McNarry ( Un ) to 11,958 for Craig ( VUPP ) . |
| 20 | The government 's action was thought to have persuaded the US government to agree to a further US$50,000,000 aid package [ see p. 37311 for March 1990 withdrawal of US ambassador ] . |
| 21 | The political scene in 1990 was dominated by the run-up to the November presidential elections [ see pp. 37850-51 ] , the continuous peace talks with the URNG , which failed to live up to the promise of the June agreement [ for 1990 peace talks see pp. 37372 ; 37527 ; 37707 ] , and the controversy with the US government over political assassinations by right-wing paramilitaries [ see p. 37311 for March 1990 withdrawal of US ambassador and p. 37912 for December suspension of US military aid ] . |
| 22 | ‘ We went for Peter Beardsley , but it was n't right for Everton . |
| 23 | ‘ We tried to sign Chris Waddle , but it was not right for him at the time , we went for Peter Beardsley , but it was not right for Everton . |
| 24 | A little firm just down the road had developed QDOS — Quick and Dirty Operating System — which looked just right for IBM 's PC. $100,000 later , Microsoft had bought the rights to QDOS , renamed it MS-DOS — Microsoft Disk Operating System , no frivolous acronyms for Big Blue , please — and licensed it to IBM . |
| 25 | It turned out that my grandfather was right for Cody was killed a few minutes afterwards for just this reason . |
| 26 | It 's just not right for Anna . ’ |
| 27 | A pass of hit and hope bounced just right for Nicholson . |
| 28 | And nothing wrong with it at all , if that was what was right for you , but it was n't right for Maria , and it sure as eggs was n't right for Kath ! |
| 29 | And nothing wrong with it at all , if that was what was right for you , but it was n't right for Maria , and it sure as eggs was n't right for Kath ! |
| 30 | I I du n no I I I ca n't work out cos all of Dan 's girlfriends yeah Amber , Sonia and Honey most people have all said I do n't think she 's right for Dan and you know I ca n't I ca n't work out whether they actually think that or they 're just sort of saying that because he does n't talk to them as much or something , I do n't know . |