Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [vb pp] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A EURO information bus arrives at Chester Castle car park today after being based for two days in Ellesmere Port . |
| 2 | Whether they will feel as enthusiastic after being deluged for three weeks with the results of the £30m-plus likely to be spent by the main parties is more questionable . |
| 3 | The emphasis on map and compass skills comes in the wake of a near disaster last August when a group of 14 children and their young leader were airlifted to safety after being lost for two days east of Dalwhinnie in the Highlands . |
| 4 | ‘ That is not easy because we have only a few days together after being split for 10 months . |
| 5 | Dai Walter Jones ( no relation ) was given a job at ‘ Laura Ashley ’ after being hospitalized for five years with a serious illness and with little prospect of finding employment elsewhere as he was approaching retirement age . |
| 6 | Humans become unconscious after being submerged for 3 hours in water at 15°C ( 60°F ) . |
| 7 | K. Doraiswamy , executive director of the Indian Oil Corporation , was freed on Aug. 20 after being held for 55 days by the Ikhwan-ul-Muslameen group . |
| 8 | A WOMAN escaped unharmed with her 11-month-old son yesterday after being held for 45 minutes by a knife-wielding kidnapper . |
| 9 | AN ELDERLY woman died after being left for 11 hours on a hospital trolley , an inquest was told yesterday . |
| 10 | A MAN was fighting for his life last night after being carried for 500 yards on the bonnet of a hit-and-run car . |
| 11 | A CAMERAMAN was plucked to safety yesterday after being trapped for two days inside an active volcano . |
| 12 | THREE 14-year-old Scouts were found yesterday after being trapped for 18 hours in torrential rain on a Lake District mountain . |
| 13 | Two survivors — both women — were cut free after being trapped for 20 minutes in the wreckage . |
| 14 | MARK JONES , Hull 's Welsh rugby league international forward , will miss the match against France in Perpignan on Sunday week after being suspended for six matches by the League disciplinary committee last night . |
| 15 | Wigan prop Kelvin Skerrett will miss the tie after being banned for five matches last night while Hull second row Steve McNamara received a four-match suspension . |
| 16 | However , an aid convoy and a French field hospital trying to reach Srebrenica remained blocked yesterday while trucks intended for the Muslim town of Zepa were ordered to return to Belgrade by the UN after being stalled for six days . |
| 17 | Possibly , then , the orang-utan has been excluded from the ground through competition with man , and has become arboreal , perhaps also as a result of being hunted for 30000 years by its competitor . |
| 18 | Agassi 's promotion despite being sidelined for eight weeks with tendonitis of the right wrist was expected with the Wimbledon seeding committee keen to officially acknowledge their reigning champion . |
| 19 | Cooke then spent a year at a commercial school at Neatishead before being apprenticed for five years to a wholesale draper in Norwich . |
| 20 | The amount was to be fixed for one year . |
| 21 | Coun. Ray Flowers , chairman of the county highways sub-committee , also welcomed the pedestrianisation scheme , which is to be monitored for 18 months . |
| 22 | High-density seating with many rows fixed in face-to-back mode , together with much more standing room , enabled trains which had previously been formed of three old DMU vehicles to be scheduled for two Sprinter vehicles . |
| 23 | May we have a change in our procedure for questioning the Leader of the House who last week announced the business for the following week even though he apparently knows that the election is to be called for 9 April and that the business will therefore be changed ? |
| 24 | On Oct. 22 , 1990 , he had been ordered to be detained for 60 days in a military camp for sending a letter to Menem warning him that unrest in the army could provoke a " military rebellion " . |
| 25 | A YOUTH who inflicted what a sheriff described yesterday as an appalling gaping face wound on a teenager he slashed was ordered to be detained for 15 months in a young offenders ' institution . |
| 26 | Winston Churchill , MP for Davyhulme , a leading Tory rebel , said : ‘ The report is that the White Paper says that 13 pits are going to be saved for two years and then have the chop . |
| 27 | No battleships were to be built for 10 years ; and the total tonnage of naval ships was to be based on a ratio of 5-5-3 for the USA , Great Britain and Japan , and 1.7 for each of the others . |
| 28 | At Angle in Pembrokeshire the first new slipway and boathouse to be built for 31 years is to be constructed . |
| 29 | Seeing it yesterday for the first time , she had reflected that great tact would have to be employed for two women to share quarters this size . |
| 30 | Because of the division of labour , work soon became the perpetual repetition of a simple task , or the minding of a machine ; such work often had to be done for fourteen hours a day , six days a week , and there were no special provisions for the women and very young children who were considered especially suitable for work in the textile industries . |