Example sentences of "[be] [num] [noun] for [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The average sentence lengths of the two passages are fifty-seven words for Conrad , and only twenty for Lawrence & ) ; in Conrad the ratio of independent clauses to dependent clauses is 1:2.8 , and in Lawrence 1:1 ( 46 ) Lawrence , then uses much simpler sentences than Conrad , especially in his third paragraph . |
| 2 | In the end there could only be one option for de Gaulle , but the time it took him to make the decision indicated how difficult it was . |
| 3 | There are 2000 tickets for Leeds supporters at Old Scumford . |
| 4 | Exports are one way for America to soften the impact of sluggish demand at home ; the undervalued dollar makes it all the easier , in effect , to import some vitality from Germany and Japan . |
| 5 | They were two saloons for Edward VII and Queen Alexandra , that saw continuous service with very little change , throughout the reign of George V and Queen Mary , and much of that of George VI and Queen Elizabeth too . |
| 6 | There were two goals for Dalien Atkinson and one apiece for Kevin Richardson and Ray Houghton … tomorrow the Villa come a calling at the County Ground … |
| 7 | The return movement rarely starts before October , although there are four records for August and four for September . |
| 8 | There are four possibilities for LPk : ( i ) the optimal solution is not integral and ; ( ii ) the optimal solution is integral and ; ( iii ) ; ( iv ) LPk is infeasible . |
| 9 | There are two records for July ( 10th , 1975 , and 1 7th , 1960 ) and one for August ( 12th to 21st , 1976 ) . |
| 10 | There are two goals for Martin Foyle , but Spurs ' Paul Gascoigne also scores twice and he proves to be their match winner . |
| 11 | Swindon go to Southampton on Wednesday … we can celebrate something tonight … a new National Junior Tennis Champion … it 's three cheers for Banbury teenager Claire Taylor |
| 12 | Five pound for you and there 's five pound for Tom for coming in for doing this . |
| 13 | It is one thing for Marx to have seen that Owen 's vision was millennial . |
| 14 | Most birds have been seen in December , January or February , but there is one record for October ( 30th , 1949 , Sidlesham ) , one for November , three for March , and one for April , of a bird which stayed at Pagham Harbour from 18 March to 3 April 1962 . |
| 15 | You see it 's one thing for Jesus to say that it 's another for us to believe it and accept it . |
| 16 | Ian Balding 's filly is 7-1 favourite for Ayr with sponsors Ladbrokes , but jockey Willie Carson knows she has a job on . |
| 17 | Thank God it 's 130 jobs for Glasgow or if that 's too flippant : Projects bring 130 jobs to Glasgow |
| 18 | Eventually , when Radio Clyde said ‘ No recording , no Masses ’ , and the bishops got themselves into a situation when it was one law for Clyde and another for the BBC , did the recorded Mass become a possibility . |
| 19 | and today at Ascot … there was one winner for Scudamore none for Dunwoody … but the Oxfordshire man still leads by 15 … the score at the moment 90 to 75 |
| 20 | There was one advert for Boots No. |
| 21 | But it was one thing for James I to have his ideas influenced by Scotland 's natural enemy , England . |
| 22 | It was one thing for Jean-Claude to have had the experiences that made him uniquely suited to interpret Alain-Fournier 's novel ; it was quite another for those experiences to have laid the foundations for a creative , personal life . |
| 23 | It was one thing for Miss Sally-Anne Tunstall , pampered beauty , to contemplate the horrors of poverty from the relative comfort of Vetch Street , but to see it in practice , that was quite another thing . |