Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [adj] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dessie Farrell , one of the few Dublin players to emerge from last with his reputation intact , is back in the side today after being absent for two months through injury . |
| 2 | At a stroke our artistic patrimony has been increased by a treasure which is about to go on display after being unseen for seventy years . |
| 3 | compensation for suspected cases instead of being dilatory for 18 months , the problem would have been contained much more quickly . |
| 4 | But their real function is to give people a chance to be famous for five minutes , by saying something that will get them on to the next news broadcast . |
| 5 | Attitudes in Great Britain before the publication of the Bill to the content of the curriculum are illustrated in Figure 10.5 , which shows the percentages of respondents who considered particular topics to be essential for 15 year olds . |
| 6 | But progress is likely to be slow for two reasons . |
| 7 | [ Article 22 concerned ratification of the treaty which was to be valid for 20 years . |
| 8 | He reckoned to be airborne for 15 minutes in every 50 of the average run . |
| 9 | Type 2 : Semi-specialist machinery which is expected to be productive for ten years and have a residual value of 10% of its original cost . |
| 10 | NASA says yes , highly probable for a prototype to be flying tests , but doubtful to be operational for two years . |
| 11 | In the event of a second conviction for a like offence , a member is liable , in addition to the penalties already named , to be adjudged to be for ever incapable of holding any public office , and to be incapable for five years of being registered as an elector or voting at an election either of members to serve in Parliament or of members of any public body . |
| 12 | The RAF was thought to be responsible for 32 murders over 20 years , the most recent being that in April 1991 of Detlev Rohwedder , head of the Treuhand privatization agency [ see p. 38155 ] . |
| 13 | A WHO analysis published on Nov. 11 in Geneva showed heterosexual intercourse to be responsible for three quarters of all cases of HIV infection . |
| 14 | They 've got most most times I think you 'll have to be unemployed for six months . |
| 15 | We feel it 's bound eventually to be open for 24 hours . ’ |
| 16 | She left Queen 's in 1850 and it was in that year that she founded the school of which she was to be head for forty years , the North London Collegiate School for Ladies , which opened in the Buss Camden Street house on 4 April 1850 with thirty-five pupils . |