Example sentences of "[adj] for [adj] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is outstanding for thousands of wigeon , teal , mallards and brent geese , plus oystercatchers , dunlins , curlews and foraging groups of snow buntings . |
| 2 | ‘ It would have been possible for one of w to have poisoned his food , perhaps . |
| 3 | Asleep for hundreds of years . |
| 4 | Asleep for hundreds of years . |
| 5 | Lack of rainfall means that they have survived intact for hundreds of years , though they are now being threatened by tourists . |
| 6 | The shares stand at 65p against a high for 1989 of 127p . |
| 7 | Dock empty for much of case |
| 8 | That produced a form of waste that was hot , highly toxic , radioactive ; that will remain dangerous for hundreds of years and that no-one has yet thought of a way of disposing of ? |
| 9 | On the day you read this letter 74,000 acres of natural tropical rainforest , untouched for thousands of years , will be cleared in this way . |
| 10 | Now you can achieve a similar effect in your home ; Putnams is importing paints from Turkey of a type used in the Mediterranean for thousands of years . |
| 11 | One of the oldest fodder herbs know , fenugreek has been used to feed cattle round the countries bordering the Mediterranean for thousands of years . |
| 12 | It has remained virtually unchanged for hundreds of years . |
| 13 | It is also an exotic and exciting world of different sights , sounds and scents which has remained unchanged for hundreds of years . |
| 14 | It is a small fishing village built on the side of a cliff with one narrow cobbled street running from the clifftop to the harbour , each side crammed with idyllic stone cottages , unchanged for hundreds of years . |
| 15 | An Elderslie councillor , Bobby Stevenson , added : ‘ The plan is ill-considered for dozens of reasons . |
| 16 | I mean if they 'd been trodden , downtrodden for thousands of years , I mean the whole power of the landlords is in the , the councils in the erm townships everywhere . |
| 17 | Have they been downtrodden for thousands of years or was it more recent ? |
| 18 | The life of the farming families here has been harsh for hundreds of years but this harshness has been intensified by the laws on land inheritance and land revenue introduced by the British , which have already been described . |
| 19 | ‘ Every project has to be considered on its own merits but when it comes to safety there are certain common denominators — that 's why there are so many do 's and don'ts in place — to protect us , ’ explains regional health and safety advisor , John Fegan who , together with colleague David Scott is responsible for all of Wimpey 's Contracting and Homes sites in Scotland . |
| 20 | Clever , witty and articulate , he came from the intellectual elite which McCarthy so effectively attacked as responsible for many of America 's problems . |
| 21 | Master Henry of Canterbury , responsible for many of Edward II 's diplomatic memoranda , had also studied law at Paris , and his professional judgement upon Anglo-French affairs was invaluable . |
| 22 | He was responsible for 12 of Ireland 's 17 points , comprised of two penalties and two drop goals . |
| 23 | Equally , while the procedure which produced the Enham texts may have been similar to those responsible for some of Æthelstan 's codes and I Edmund , the promulgation of archiepiscopal admonitions as royal decrees is also reminiscent of those issued by Henry II after the synod of Dortmund in 1005 . |
| 24 | This is all logical enough given Fforde 's conviction that collectivism comes from ‘ areas other than the British Conservative party ’ , but Fforde seems to forget that the Conservatives were in power for fifty-five of the 100 years from the dawn of collectivism to the edge of Thatcherism , and must , therefore , have been at least partly responsible for some of Keith Joseph 's ‘ detritus ’ . |
| 25 | Marvin Heiferman 's phrase " Landscape-as-Real-Estate " is apt for much of Lewis Baltz 's trilogy . |
| 26 | NATIONAL Vocational Qualifications ( NVQs ) designed to introduce standards-based working practices throughout all areas of industry and commerce are set to be available for thousands of Group employees . |
| 27 | There are some steamy bed scene , which may be too hot for most of Kylie 's young fans to see , but it could turn a whole new audience on to her charms . |
| 28 | This was disappointing for some of RAFAMACS customers . |
| 29 | While the topography has remained basically unaltered for millions of years , the ecology has gradually changed . |
| 30 | just as the ermine changes it coat for winter ; just as the seed can lie dormant for thousands of years ; just as the bacteria and the rotifers can live in their desiccated time capsules for perhaps longer than we can ever envisage , awaiting a change of outer circumstances for the tiny living specks of dust to take on another form — just so , perhaps , may the living forms we know so well have secrets tucked away within them that only the rolling of the aeons can reveal . |