Example sentences of "[adj] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Footnote for Davidson Room Team : – total for our books and records was £4179.81 . |
| 2 | The royal commission on awards to inventors awarded him £12,000 in 1948 for his work on the bridge . |
| 3 | It looked too frail for his hand . |
| 4 | He finished last of the Europeans , two behind David Feherty , who had a 70 for his best round of the tournament . |
| 5 | She would create something special , something outstanding for her . |
| 6 | To Paul Dubrulle , a thirty-four-year-old French Jesuit serving as an infantry sergeant at Verdun , whose journals are outstanding for their un-embellished realism , it seemed as follows : |
| 7 | The Gazebo has an excellent menu and the elegant Pompadour Restaurant is outstanding for its haute cuisine . |
| 8 | Obviously Wordsworth 's performance in his studies at school must have been outstanding for him to have started off at Cambridge with such a lead , and it is hardly surprising that in the college examination in 1787 he was placed in the first class . |
| 9 | His voyage was outstanding for his persistence and seamanship and in 1833 he was awarded the royal premium of the Royal Geographical Society . |
| 10 | No special LIFESPAN privileges are required to use this option , but you will only be able to respond to task mail which is outstanding for you . |
| 11 | A cheque for the amount outstanding for our services arrived yesterday . |
| 12 | I thought it might be loud for her , there between close walls , but it was her wish . |
| 13 | People appeared to be very small , and their voices were too loud for their size . |
| 14 | Nos. 34E and 55E were due for their annual inspection , servicing and relicensing , which took place on 15 and 27 July respectively . |
| 15 | Strangely enough , his announcement came just the day before Sir Richard Body 's press conference on his Pig Husbandry Bill , due for its second reading on 25 January . |
| 16 | Mr Clarke yesterday showed no sign of giving ground on the reforms set out in the National Health Service and Community Care Bill , due for its second reading in the Commons today . |
| 17 | It 's due for its MOT test . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , pressure groups are variously encouraging retailers to open on a Sunday or urging local authorities to prosecute the law breakers , and labour MP Ray Powell 's Private Member 's Bill ( supported by the Keep Sunday Special Campaign ) is due for its second reading on 22nd January . |
| 19 | It relates to the Education ( Schools ) Bill which is due for its Second Reading next Tuesday . |
| 20 | Fit a new timing belt drive as it is about due for one , set accurately and the problem will hopefully disappear . |
| 21 | We 're about due for one — I might bring you in on it . ’ |
| 22 | Now in pursuance of the premisses the said lords spirituall and temporall and commons in Parlyament assembled for the ratifying confirming and establishing the said declaration and the articles clauses matters and things therein contained by the force of a law made in due for me by authority of Parlyament doe pray that it may be declared and enacted that all and singular the rights and liberties asserted and claimed in the said declaration are the true auntient and indubitable rights and liberties of the people of this king dome and soe shall be esteemed allowed adjudged deemed and taken to be and that all and every the particulars aforesaid shall be firmly and strictly hold en and observed as they are expressed in the said declaration . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm due for my ride . ’ |
| 24 | Well when , the week before I 'm due for my period I 'm really really nasty , in |
| 25 | your due to , you know , you , you were due for your hip replacement . |
| 26 | ‘ And there is also ’ , the clerk said , ‘ two hundred and seventy-nine dollars owing for your calls , señor . ’ |
| 27 | He 's a bit too vulgar for me . ’ |
| 28 | This is based upon the proposition that some people require lesser levels of care than that provided in the care setting in which they are located , and that it is more cost-effective for them to be supported in a less dependent setting ( Challis , 1992c ) . |
| 29 | We 're talking just under two hundred in Denmark and just under three hundred in Norway it may be cost-effective for us to do it ourselves with initial distribution from Stansted and maybe a local person doing any new distributions but I think in all honesty it will be as cheap for us |
| 30 | For its part , Scottish Nuclear has also embarked on a programme to reduce the cost of electricity it produces for the Scottish power companies from 3.2p per unit last year to a target level of 2.5p to ensure the operation remains financially strong and profitable for whatever the future might hold . |