Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [vb pp] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The President is elected for four years , but members of the House of Representatives have to face election every two years , while a senator is elected for six years . |
| 2 | It was proposed that the president be elected for two years without the right to re-election . |
| 3 | The mix is baked for 20 minutes in moulds and served with a vegetable cream sauce , lentils , and sautéed mushrooms . |
| 4 | The Rate 1 indication is calibrated for one speed only , usually normal cruise . |
| 5 | Knife killer is jailed for ten years |
| 6 | An obstacle to Buchan 's transfer was that he would lose income from his Sunderland shop , and the deal was delayed for two months while ‘ under-the-counter ’ terms were agreed to compensate him for this loss . |
| 7 | An example of the first type is found in Morris ( Herbert ) Ltd v Saxelby [ 1916 ] 1 AC 688 where the defendant was bound for seven years after employment not to work in the UK or Ireland in the sale or manufacture of pulley blocks , hand overhead runways , electric overhead runways or hand overhead travelling cranes . |
| 8 | One soldier was trapped for 20 minutes because the impact of the crash forced the lorry door on to his body . |
| 9 | A MAN who forced a teenage couple to strip naked and then sexually assaulted them in a bank doorway was jailed for seven years yesterday , writes John Robertson . |
| 10 | AN alcoholic who admitted killing his five months pregnant girlfriend was jailed for five years today . |
| 11 | A man who planned to flood Britain with cocaine was jailed for 15 years yesterday and his assets of £1.5 million were confiscated . |
| 12 | Placental weight was recorded for 1320 men . |
| 13 | Basal gastric secretion was collected for 60 minutes , and bFGF was infused subcutaneously ( at a rate of 4ml/hour ) in various doses ranging from 1 to 100 µg/kg/hour with a peristaltic pump ; each dose was infused for 60 minutes in one day 's test . |
| 14 | A YOUNG handbag snatcher was jailed for five years yesterday as a judge signalled the fight back against street crime . |
| 15 | During each of the stages described above , 15 ml of effluent from the venous catheter was collected for five minutes after the start of infusion . |
| 16 | The next month the group declared a unilateral ceasefire and President 's rule was extended for six months [ see pp. 38101-02 ] . |
| 17 | A RAPIST who was captured after he left bare footprints at the scene of the crime was jailed for 14 years at Bristol Crown Court yesterday . |
| 18 | The fighting was caused for three reasons : different sides kept stealing cattle ; everybody was searching for new land ; and according to the Romans the Celts liked fighting . |
| 19 | The Amir , an absolute monarch , appoints the Cabinet and the 30-member Advisory Council ; the latter 's term was extended for four years in April 1990 . |
| 20 | Systemic blood was centrifuged for 10 minutes at 4°C and 460 g and plasma aliquoted using sterile individually wrapped transfer pipettes into sterile cryotubes ( three per blood sample ) ( Nunc 363401 , Intermed , Denmark ) . |
| 21 | And loyalists claim a second inmate was blinded for 48 hours after riot squad prison officers turned high-powered hose on his face . |
| 22 | Taking the smithy and forge together , work is found for 288 men and lads . |
| 23 | A MAN branded Britain 's worst motorist was jailed for six months yesterday after clocking up his 12th drink-driving offence . |
| 24 | The first session was arranged for 4 days later . |
| 25 | A CONVICTED sex attacker who kidnapped a six-year-old girl from a playground was jailed for two years yesterday after a top judge said the law forced him to disregard the man 's long criminal record . |
| 26 | The assay was done for 30 min in the presence of either 0.1μM free Ca 2+ and 0.9mM sodium deoxycholate ( + ) , or 10μM free Ca 2+ and 3.4mM sodium deoxycholate ( ++ ) . |
| 27 | A WINDOW cleaner was jailed for seven years yesterday for raping one of his customers . |
| 28 | The race around the fast but treacherous circuit was scheduled for 20 laps and was the first of eight races to count towards the European Formula Two Championship . |
| 29 | A CAREER diplomat was jailed for nine months yesterday for using United Kingdom High Commission bank accounts to profit from a currency black market . |
| 30 | THE FATHER of a former Miss Scotland beauty queen was jailed for 18 months yesterday after being convicted of conspiring to defraud an insurance company and setting fire to his partly-completed house in Argyll . |