Example sentences of "[adj] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I assess the annual mileage as six thousand which then gives a total for running costs of five hundred and sixty eight pounds eighty pence . |
| 2 | All shafts , levels , adits , watercourses and works to be kept open or upstanding for present or future working , and to yield up these at the end of the term , with the bottoms clear of all dross and rubbish ; and the drifts , cross-cuts , sumps , pits , buddles , water-courses , dwelling houses , cabins , smelting houses , store houses , bingsteads , smithies , forges , workshops , etc . |
| 3 | These exposure drafts , which are still outstanding for comment , are : E 41 , Revenue Recognition ; E 42 , Construction Contracts ; E 43 , Property , Plant and Equipment ; E 44 , The Effects of Changes in Foreign Exchange Rates ; E 45 , Business Combinations ; and E 46 , Extraordinary Items , Fundamental Errors and Changes in Accounting Policies ( see also ACCOUNTANCY , July , p 95 , and September , p 106 ) . |
| 4 | The amount of credit outstanding for fuel is now approaching £1,000 million ; that is to say , for every £1 that consumers owe for other purchases they owe perhaps 10p for fuel . |
| 5 | Cuervo is the Spanish for crow , which is the Celtic bird sent in by the Gods on the eve of battle . |
| 6 | His account of the conflict , titled One Hundred Days , is to be translated into Spanish for publication in Argentina . |
| 7 | My mule was a 17-year-old snow-white gelding called Vaquero — Spanish for cowboy . |
| 8 | spell erm spell the word and things but erm write down the words in Spanish for ham or |
| 9 | You will hear from us again if you are short-listed for interview . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't know where my next penny is coming from , I really do n't , ’ she would breathe in her flat , light voice , as she sat hunched on the river bank , too hapless for despair , while our children played together among the drifting garbage at the water 's edge . |
| 11 | Next year he was due for promotion at the insurance office . |
| 12 | In 1938 , again due for promotion but medically unfit , he took an appointment as a second-grade staff officer in the War Office to research on any subject he chose . |
| 13 | And workmen were out repairing damage to the illuminations , due for switch-on at the end of the week . |
| 14 | Veteran actor Sir John did not have a suitable photograph of himself to adorn the cover of Backward Glances , the concluding volume of an autobiographical trilogy begun in 1939 and due for paperback publication in the New Year . |
| 15 | Under US anti-laws Ford was not due for clearance to buy more than $15m of Jaguar stock until 18 October . |
| 16 | With the first switch due for installation in Birmingham in August , there is to be a subsequent roll out in the other franchise areas in the following months . |
| 17 | There are currently two systems installed at the Lower Shakespeare Drift with a further six due for installation during the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 18 | BA has submitted a sealed bid for up to 35 per cent of the airline , due for privatisation . |
| 19 | James Whitaker works for the rival Mirror , and his book was due for serialisation in that paper . |
| 20 | A new HNC in mechatronics is due for validation this month , and will be available for delivery in session 1993–94 . |
| 21 | This HNC is due for validation this month , and will be available for session 1993–94 . |
| 22 | A starting point for this exercise was to look at the courses due for validation or review in 1993 . |
| 23 | Elizardo Sánchez Santa Cruz , President of the Cuban Commission of Human Rights and National Reconciliation ( CCDHRN ) , who was sentenced to two years ' imprisonment in 1989 for ‘ spreading false news with the aim of endangering the prestige or standing of the Cuban state ’ , is still serving his sentence in Agüica Prison : he is due for release in August 1991 . |
| 24 | They are not due for release until 1992 , and are among some 400 young men held in Greek prisons for their refusal on religious grounds to perform military service . |
| 25 | She relies heavily on tip-offs , in turn alerting county and metropolitan records offices about historic company records due for release by liquidators . |
| 26 | The beta-test version of Alpha is due for release at the end of 1990 , with the first commercial release in 1993 . |
| 27 | The stormy relationship with the label has once again been calmed and the band begin recording their fourth album , and a new single , due for release in 1985 , this week . |
| 28 | Another neglected master emerged on three LPs of Piano Sonatas by Harold Truscott , played , as in the Founds , by the indefatigable peter Jacobs ; they revealed a muscial thinker of a very high order who has been , and still is , cruelly ignored by the muscial establishment ( again , I understand that John Ogdon 's recording for Altarus of Truscott 's Tenth is due for release soon — and I would also make a plea for a re-issue of those other Sonatas on CD : they are contrapuntal masterpieces , sometimes witty , often beautiful , and they ought to be much more widely known ) . |
| 29 | Crystal Kingdom Dizzy is due for release in November . |
| 30 | Then there 's a live Metheny Group album in the can , which is due for release in the summer of ‘ 93 , and I 've just done another album with a really interesting young sax player called Gary Thomas . |