Example sentences of "[adj] [n mass] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that moment , all that this suggested to me was the possibility of fresh mackerel for breakfast … |
| 2 | They gave you half-a-crown each for your lunch every day , four old pence for coffee and four old pence for tea in the afternoon . |
| 3 | They gave you half-a-crown each for your lunch every day , four old pence for coffee and four old pence for tea in the afternoon . |
| 4 | An appeal has been launched for 1992 to raise a targeted £100,000 for youth cricket development , which will strengthen finances further at the same time as hopefully assuring a supply of talent for triumphs in the future . |
| 5 | Combe Sydenham country park has beautiful walks and tasty trout for sale whilst Stogursey boasts a moated ruined castle and Norman church . |
| 6 | Providing fresh trout for dinner was rarely a problem . |
| 7 | Adoption of Motif application programming interface specifications by X/Open Co Ltd offers a politically acceptable means for Sun Microsystems Inc to offer Motif products on its price list for the first time : its SunSoft Inc subsidiary plans to market Santa Cruz Operation Inc-owned IXI Ltd 's Motif toolkit under a deal already signed and due to be revealed soon ; subsequently SunSoft will offer a combined ‘ MoLook ’ -type COSE toolkit in first half 1994 . |
| 8 | Adoption of Motif application programming interface specifications by X/Open Co Ltd offers a politically acceptable means for Sun to offer Motif products on its price list for the first time . |
| 9 | When the Prime Minister visits Scotland this weekend , will he be big enough to acknowledge that , sooner rather than later , he will have to bow to the wish of the Scottish people for self-determination ? |
| 10 | Most are in the top 25pc for intelligence . |
| 11 | If the chosen section has the greatest possible diversity and abundance of rapidly evolving fossils , we can then hope for the greatest possible number of different means for correlation . |
| 12 | I was thinking how funny it would be if I had switched the smoked salmon for ham . |
| 13 | There can be several reasons why a community tank can have its uses , one being as a mixture of different species for display purposes . |
| 14 | ‘ Raw shellfish for breakfast , ’ muttered Ann . |
| 15 | Virtually fat-free yoghurt or fromage frais , or fresh fruit for dessert . |
| 16 | The overall three and five year survival after variceal harmorrhage was 68% and 54% respectively , which compares favourably with other published series for grade A and B patients . |
| 17 | THE SO-CALLED disease-of-the-month club is currently mustering legislative support for an objective that it almost reached in the last session of congress : creation of a separate headquarters for arthritis research at the National Institutes of Health ( NIH ) . |
| 18 | Toilet rolls 84p for pack of two , basic writing papers from £9 for 500 sheets , quality watermarked paper from £10 for 500 sheets , envelopes , standard £26 for box of 1,000 ( can be split ) and quality from £27 for 500 . |
| 19 | Typical data for polyisobutylene are shown in section 13.14 , figure 13.21 , where the logarithm of the relaxation modulus log is plotted against log t . |
| 20 | His first car was a 1964 Ford Consul which he and three friends bought for £15 , plus an additional £5 for petrol . |
| 21 | ‘ The changes facing the industry with the ending of the variable premium in a few months time made buyers highly selective , ’ said auctioneer Michael Walton who managed to extract an average £1000 for ram lambs against a 1990 figure of £1209 . |
| 22 | That is why we , with the support of the Liberals , put forward our own adaptation of the perfect Percent for Art policy . |
| 23 | The CI conveys ‘ significance ’ and magnitude of effect , prompting Gardner and Altman to provide simple formulae for CIs to replace most of the standard statistics for hypothesis tests . |
| 24 | He said St. Bede 's required £4,000 for work to start in April and St. |
| 25 | The Library sees itself as a major provider of an enquiry service within RBGE , and also as a switching centre for specialist enquiries which we forward to the most appropriate staff for answer . |
| 26 | In addition , there was obviously competition from non-print media for advertising revenue and from other goods and services for the money in the newspaper reader 's pocket . |
| 27 | Both teams include the same six central works for fortepiano , violin and cello , omitting the unfinished K442 — a ragbag of three probably unrelated movements gathered together and completed by Abbe Maximilian Stadler after Mozart 's death — and the ‘ Kegelstadt ’ Trio for Fortepiano , Clarinet and Viola . |
| 28 | There is also research glass space in Edinburgh for the cultivation of tender and tropical species for research , and quarantine facilities for the treatment of wild-collected material . |
| 29 | LESS likely headquarters for world golf is hard to imagine . |
| 30 | Everyone 's a capitalist The socialist councillor was intent on buying up Sheffield ; and the YMCA , reports Geoffrey Beattie , is hoping to make a quick buck for Christmas . |