Example sentences of "[adj] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The figures which I have given , I hope , add up to a total for new accommodation of seventy one thousand , one hundred and fifty two pounds . |
| 2 | Thus , we can add the joint income of husband and wife to obtain a total for that unit , whatever we choose to call it , whereas we can not sensibly add their separate statuses to achieve a joint status for both of them unless we know a great deal more about how status is a distributive phenomenon and what its properties are . |
| 3 | The picture in Grampian region is even more pronounced with exports to the European Community accounting for 65% , and those to EFTA accounting for more than 10% of the total , giving a total for Western Europe of 75% . |
| 4 | However , the departmental system of budgeting contains no mechanism to identify those individual parts , nor any mechanism to bring them together to give a total for orthopaedic surgery . |
| 5 | PSBR near-twice total for 1991 |
| 6 | While smaller churches may be able to count every week , this may prove impractical for large churches , especially with more than one exit , without some fairly elaborate means of arriving at a total for each service . |
| 7 | So if in A one to A four , you got the numbers one hundred thousand , that 'll use sixteen bytes for the block , plus four times eight forty eight a total for this cells . |
| 8 | The more variable strata will therefore be more intensively sampled , leading to estimates of the population mean or total for this variable that are ‘ optimal ’ in the sense of having smallest possible variance . |
| 9 | 26 April : The Mail on Sunday comments on the calculation that the cosmos will remain habitable for 10 to the power of 76 years . |
| 10 | They had the wealth , the power , to change this place and make it habitable for those who wished it so , and yet they did nothing . |
| 11 | They 're a little bit frail for that . |
| 12 | The great man himself is now 95 and too frail for any involvement . |
| 13 | Read Cole , speculating on the possibility of a revival , after the Second World War , of Producer Co-operation : That is an authoritative pronouncement of the view , prevailing for many decades , of the Consumer 's Movement 's attitude towards Producer Co-operation : the rival doctrine , not quite anathema , but something very like . |
| 14 | Consider life expectancy , a measure indicating the number of years a newborn infant could typically be expected to live if patterns of mortality prevailing for all people in the year of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life . |
| 15 | But as the surplus rural housing was gradually soaked up by commuters and second home owners , and as housing which had once been a damning indictment of years of neglect and deprivation was restored and renovated , so relative scarcity began to increase prices above those prevailing for comparable suburban and even urban housing . |
| 16 | Bearing in mind prices prevailing for completed developments within the LDDC , developers and construction companies have gained enormous profits . |
| 17 | They needed no professional help with the evening 's drinking but arose magically clear-headed and eagle-eyed for each subsequent day 's golf . |
| 18 | ‘ For instance , there is at present an order outstanding for two dozen piranha fish . ’ |
| 19 | Most advances are supposed to be short-term but in practice many are outstanding for long periods . |
| 20 | Many of the debts sued for , all undefended , had been outstanding for three , four , five and six years , or even for a longer period . |
| 21 | The decision was a cruel blow for Manley , who was outstanding for most of the game , and the controversy continued after the final whistle . |
| 22 | ‘ He has been outstanding for several weeks now — and he 's got real pace , which you ca n't find these days , never mind buy it . |
| 23 | It is outstanding for thousands of wigeon , teal , mallards and brent geese , plus oystercatchers , dunlins , curlews and foraging groups of snow buntings . |
| 24 | ‘ A number of invitations have been outstanding for some time , and people just chose to take them up at this stage , ’ one said . |
| 25 | If rent remains outstanding for 21 days after the due date , forfeiture proceedings may be brought against a dilatory tenant by a strongwilled landlord . |
| 26 | Burying her face in Luke 's chest to hide her blushes , Perdita asked him if he knew the Spanish for Super Tampax , and if they could stop for some on the way . |
| 27 | The Catalan and Basque languages were compulsorily replaced by Castilian Spanish for all public purposes ( including speech outside the home , teaching , the press , literature and drama ) and the music , dancing and folk songs traditional in those regions were proscribed . |
| 28 | Chameleon , for example , has been available in English , German , Danish , Portuguese and Spanish for some time , and has recently added Czech and Polish language versions . |
| 29 | Jamie Delgado 's surname , roughly translated , is Spanish for slim . |
| 30 | It substituted Spanish for Austrian influence in southern Italy . |