Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [vb pp] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two animal rights campaigners who took part in a series of firebombings have each been jailed for four years . |
| 2 | Three members of a Colombian drugs cartel who used Oxford language schools as a cover have each been jailed for ten years . |
| 3 | SIX members of a North-East car theft gang have each been jailed for three years after an 18-month undercover police operation . |
| 4 | LIVINGSTON Bulls ' Great Britain internationalist , Iain Maclean , and Cameron King ( Edinburgh Burger Kings ) have each been suspended for four games for their part in the Scottish Cup final fracas at Meadowbank earlier this month , writes Roddy Mackenzie . |
| 5 | Some are held for eighteen months … they 've committed no crime but they have to prove themselves innocent |
| 6 | A variety of courses was evaluated ; some were held for one evening a week for a term ; others were one-week full time ; some were award-bearing , others were not . |
| 7 | This was repeated for 10 portfolios over the 420 months between 1931 and 1965 . |
| 8 | Execution warrants for March 7 were issued for two prisoners on death row , despite international calls for clemency . |
| 9 | Members of the GWR Preservation Society will learn with particular interest that w.e.f. 21st October the world-famous Torbsy Express will be making a nostalgic return visit to a few stretches of its old track , and will first be housed for three weeks in Railway Shed 4 at Plymouth . |
| 10 | Indeed these two characteristics are all that is needed in the case of the adjective ; the relative clause is in a sense a stalking horse , convenient in that it is more tangible than the relation around which it is built , but unnecessary , and awkward in that it brings with it , in English , the requirement that it must express a tense ; for while it is often possible to read a tense into an adjective there is no reason whatever to suppose that there is always some particular tense present to the mind of the speaker but suppressed , as can be seen from instances like ( 35 ) , where more than one tense could plausibly be grafted onto the sense expressed by the phrase underlined , or , just as well , some adverbial notion like " because " or " if " without any specific tense being implied : ( 35 ) motorists guilty will have to pay heavy fines Likewise , the buildings adjacent of example ( 17 ) simply take their tense from that of the clause as a whole ; if , for instance , we were to switch the tense of the verb in that example in order to shift the whole situation to past time : ( 36 ) the buildings adjacent were closed for three days it would be quite unnecessary to presume that an independent mental re-assignment of tense , from present to past , internal to the phrase buildings adjacent , has to take place as well . |
| 11 | A SWINDLER who fleeced banks out of £2.2 million was jailed for four years yesterday . |
| 12 | That was fixed for 2 August 1991 and it is apparent that all parties were aware that that was the relevant date for the hearing of the motion . |
| 13 | Figure 1 shows an exemplar excitatory postsynaptic potential ( e.p.s.p. ) that was evoked for 250 trials at 0.1Hz , and whose mean and standard deviation ( s.d. ) showed little change over time ( Fig. 1 b ) . |
| 14 | Both are fixed for two years . |
| 15 | TOP Northern jockey Kevin Darley and apprentice Jason Weaver incurred the wrath of the stewards at Newcastle yesterday and both were suspended for 10 days ( November 11-20 inclusive ) after being found guilty of causing ‘ intentional interference ’ . |
| 16 | Both were suspended for 18 months . |