Example sentences of "[be] [adj] for [num] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He named it Latimeria and informed an astonished world that a creature thought to have been extinct for 70 million years was still alive . |
| 2 | We are trying to populate a land which has been derelict for two thousand years with a people which has been scattered for two thousand years . |
| 3 | A , was the correct answer , until benefits have been payable for one full tax year . |
| 4 | Then , late one afternoon when Chola had been ill for three consecutive days , Kalchu asked the dhāmi once again to call the god to the shrine on the roof of his own house . |
| 5 | Observers expect the Santa Cruz Operation to announce a profit for its first quarter shortly : the market is expected to want the company to prove it can be profitable for one further quarter through to March — without Larry Michels — before issuing an initial public offering next April with the aim of going public in June . |
| 6 | Alcohol is thought to be responsible for 40,000 premature deaths a year , as well as 60pc of suicide attempts , 50pc of murders , 54pc of fires and 30pc of domestic accidents . |
| 7 | This gives a capacity of around 120 litres ( 26 gallons ) which should be sufficient for one full bath . |
| 8 | SIR — The England cricket squad contesting the World Cup in Australia included players who would have been eligible for three other nations — West Indies , South Africa and Zimbabwe . |
| 9 | Expectations were upset for three basic reasons : First , the long Tamil insurgency in Sri Lanka has finally taken its toll of the tea estates . |
| 10 | It is now clear that dinosaurs were supreme for 130 million years , and that mammals co-existed with them , albeit small and insignificant through most of that time . |
| 11 | While all firms have income and retained earnings statements similar to these tables , it is possible for two identical firms with identical cash flows to end up with different reported earnings because they use different accounting conventions . |
| 12 | Mind you , that 's good for fifty five pound in n it ? |
| 13 | This assertion is important for two main reasons . |
| 14 | However , it is important for two related reasons . |
| 15 | But when all qualifications have been entered , Benjamin 's position is important for three main reasons : he took the potential of new media seriously ( as Adorno did not ) ; he recognized a new kind of ‘ autonomy ’ for cultural activity , defined in terms of its status as a practice and an intervention ; and he saw that the new modes of production and reproduction would generate new kinds of perception . |
| 16 | And it 's lonely for two young ladies — or three , as the case may be . |
| 17 | He is responsible for 100 married quarters and is President of all the handover/takeover boards . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm not referring to what is available for fifty thousand lire in the back streets of Siena . ’ |
| 19 | it 's alright for twenty five pounds |
| 20 | The danger , that , that , that , look what nature 's done in bloody Sutherfield these days , roll up that fucking volcano , the , it has been dormant for six hundred years , and all of a sudden it explodes , explodes . |
| 21 | The Book of Remembering was for remembering the animals but they had been dead for twenty thousand years . |
| 22 | After debriefing , he was due for two full days of leave . |
| 23 | and they used to go out to these units and take slides and er lecture to the , to the men about birds and er natural history and Mr himself he , he was famous for three different lectures that he used to offer . |
| 24 | I was stationed on Christmas Island for the British Megaton Trials during 1957–59 and was present for three H-bomb tests . |
| 25 | The Soviet Union was responsible for 714 nuclear explosions , France for 180 , Britain for 42 and China for 34 " . |
| 26 | It was rare for two adjacent parishes to be enclosed simultaneously and thus the Commissioners in one parish would draw their new road to join existing tracks through next parish . |
| 27 | The social fund was significant for three main reasons : it replaced individual rights based on regulations with discretion which was to be applied by social fund officers ; the budget for social fund payments was to be cash-limited ; and most payments would be in the form of loans rather than grants . |