Example sentences of "for [adj] [noun pl] [conj] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Canon Claude Rutter , who was rural dean of Sherborne for eleven years and is now the diocese 's Rural Link Officer , agrees with him . |
| 2 | The local office of the World Council of Churches runs a refugee camp for displaced Kampucheans and is struggling to meet their basic needs . |
| 3 | The Completely Crucial Guide to Pony Care course , is designed for junior horsemasters and is unique . |
| 4 | In preparation for my new job I had attended a three week Radar Observer 's course at the Sir John Cass School of Navigation in London and obtained my certificate which is obligatory for budding Commanders and is identical to the ticket held by Masters and Mates of the Merchant Service . |
| 5 | The sufferer may say that he or she uses alcohol or drugs for social reasons but is often just as comfortable , if not more so , using alone . |
| 6 | Single parent Keith , from Stockport , was unconscious for 30 minutes and is now undergoing tests . |
| 7 | He 's been a hillwalker for 30 years and is the author of nine books on the outdoors |
| 8 | It remains the major national learned society for British anthropologists and is without doubt the most prestigious body of its kind in the English-speaking world . |
| 9 | Version 1 of Rescalc has been around for some years and is today regarded as rather palaeolithic . |
| 10 | Andrew has worked at the factory for six years and is employed as a yarn storeman . |
| 11 | The former Teesside and District Society for the Blind workshop has been empty for six years and is a magnet for vandals . |
| 12 | It has been in operation for 100 years and is proceeding at a very slow rate . |
| 13 | For instance in general , it is not possible for most goods to trade present amounts of them for future amounts nor is it possible to make such contracts conditional on some outside events like the weather . |
| 14 | Shelford , the tour captain , will no longer be asking £500 for personal appearances and is understood already to have set about ‘ dismantling ’ those that had been arranged . |
| 15 | High level waste remains active for 250,000 years and is highly toxic to most life forms . |
| 16 | Alan Wofsy Fine Arts in San Francisco is known for such reprints and is offering an impressive range in 1993 . |
| 17 | Psychotherapist Piers Partridge runs therapy workshops for ex-public schoolboys and is concerned about a system which causes so much emotional damage . |
| 18 | Sort of big words for little words that 's a big word , you have to think of an addition , I 've had it in nineteen |
| 19 | An alternative , which operated in the UK from 1925 — 31 , is that the central bank is not prepared to convert banknotes into gold for domestic residents but is willing to convert such paper into gold for foreigners . |
| 20 | Incidence of disease needs to be known for aetiological studies but is also important to those planning diagnostic services within the health service . |
| 21 | She added that the faun 's condition was good although ‘ it has been outside for 35 years and is a bit green . ’ |
| 22 | The carpet has been there for three years and is still in good condition — the only signs of wear are the marks left by ‘ wee Lachie ’ , the Stewarts ' three-year-old son . |
| 23 | Now 34 and divorced , she has lived with Geoff for three years and is n't contemplating marriage again . |
| 24 | The allowance is paid in full for three years and is then reduced progressively by 12½ per cent per annum of the original difference over the subsequent seven years . |
| 25 | BP Exploration has been using the process for three years and is finding it popular and productive . |
| 26 | The New Year holiday lasts for three days and is seen as a time of fresh starts , new resolutions and auspicious omens . |
| 27 | He will leave his Neasham Road , Darlington practise for three months and is paying for the trip himself and funding a locum doctor when he is away . |
| 28 | But some new ideas incorporate both concepts and point the way to a role for white holes that is equally important to that presently accorded to black holes . |
| 29 | The Pharmacopoeia has played an increasingly important role in defining common criteria and control standards for medicinal substances and is now developing analytical methods for solvent and pesticide residues and strengthening its role in the standardisation of biologicals such as blood products and vaccines . |
| 30 | It is more likely that such hoards will be found today simply because of their size , so we may be dealing with a higher rate of recovery for these hoards than is normal for hoards of other periods . |