Example sentences of "in [adj] and [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roll another ball of icing , flatten slightly , cut in half and position for the feet . |
| 2 | Mrs Harris , who plays off a handicap of 12 , joined the club in 1964 and plays for the club team . |
| 3 | He embodied a complex amalgam of shrewd political judgement , raw business ‘ savvy ’ , and philanthropic inclinations ( he contributed to the Morrison Education Society for free education in Chinese and English for Chinese youths and he provided money for medical treatment for poor Chinese ) . |
| 4 | After the outbreak of war , his frequent warnings that the forces were seriously under-provided with personnel trained in key Asian languages went unheeded until Japan attacked , when the school was called upon to train many hundreds of young servicemen ( including some Americans ) in Chinese and Japanese for intelligence work in eastern theatres of war . |
| 5 | For children he published Parables in verse in 1768 and Hymns for the Amusement of Children in 1769 . |
| 6 | The Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam was founded by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian India in 1889 and stands for the revival of true Islam . |
| 7 | In the same sale the top price of £11,700 was given for a twelve-piece Ring 's Pattern set of table cutlery in an oak canteen which was made in Sheffield in 1931 and £950 for a George IV coffee pot of panelled baluster form decorated with acanthus leaf motifs made in London in 1825 , probably by Joseph Angell . |
| 8 | With the renewal of their charter in 1996 and plans for mass redundancies in the interests of efficiency already sketched out , the future shape of the Corporation was in the balance , alongside the polls . |
| 9 | To explain the nature of the Stranraer line , the initial grade up to the Pinmore tunnel is 1 in 54 and runs for about 4 miles . |
| 10 | There has been a small reduction in cigarette smoking , to 1,008 per capita ; military spending fell in 1990 and figures for 1991 were expected to show a further decline ; and significantly smaller quantities of ozone-depleting chemicals are being produced ; but , disturbingly , grain production has fallen while population continues to grow at record rates . |
| 11 | In June , an international conference of donors in New York promised aid worth $200,000,000 in 1990 and $150,000,000 for each of the two subsequent years of the country 's 1990-92 investment and development programme . |