Example sentences of "in [num] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This makes sense to the degree that one of the legal authorities whom Coke most often cites is Bracton ( Henry de Bracton , De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae ) , who dies in 1268 , having flourished under Henry III of England and during the minority of Henry 's son , the future Edward I. Moreover Edward and Eleanor spent the winter of 1270–71 in Sicily , en route to the Holy Land , and returned there in 1272 for Edward to learn that , his father having died , he was king of England . |
| 2 | Having been sacked from Ulm in 1934 for excess of talent , he survived in Aachen only until 1942 . |
| 3 | Stolen in 1933 , it was taken to Prague in 1934 for restoration after its recovery . |
| 4 | On grounds of style and also of known associations , several works can be attributed to Orchard : the Harcourt aisle ( c .1470 ) of Stanton Harcourt church and ‘ Pope 's Tower ’ there ; the church of South Leigh , a chapelry of Stanton ; and an aisle of the church in Waterstock built in 1500–1 for Thomas Danvers , lord of the manor and one of Waynflete 's agents . |
| 5 | The vestry of the City church of St Peter-le-Poore , Broad Street , also had this in mind and , as a result , officials were charging an additional £50 in 1838 for iron coffins deposited in their vaults over and above the standard fee of £1 15s. 2d. as against the extra £20 asked for a lead shell — with all fees double for non-parishioners . |
| 6 | He came to Madeira in 1838 for health reasons and in 1841 married the daughter of Robert Wallas , a wine-shipper and steam-driven flourmill owner . |
| 7 | The head of the Palestine Survey Commission during the British Mandate Period , engineer James Hays , presented a multi-purpose concept in 1943 for water management in Palestine . |
| 8 | The focal point is the château of Auvers-sur-Oise , built in the Italianate manner in 1635 for Zannoby Liony , banker to Maria de' Medici and her court , and later transformed into a French-style residence . |
| 9 | Feynman became well known in 1948 for work on the quantum theory of light . |
| 10 | Purchased in 1948 for £10 , Southampton 45 was the first of many trams to be bought by enthusiasts for preservation . |
| 11 | Bawsinch Nature Reserve was bought in 1971 for £1,000 by the Scottish Wildlife Trust to provide a buffer zone for Duddingston Bird Sanctuary and provide additional habitats . |
| 12 | The Treasury gave permission in 1971 for work to commence and the building operation started in the autumn . |
| 13 | Returned ‘ without any seeking or soliciting ’ on his part to Richard Cromwell 's Parliament in 1659 for Castle Rising , again on a double return , he was allowed to sit but was inactive until the election was overturned a few days before the dissolution in April . |
| 14 | After a lengthy loan spell at Leeds in which he failed to break into the first team , he signed for Shrewsbury in 1986 for £25,000 . |
| 15 | Shipwreck treasure ( in particular porcelain ) has proved a strong seller at auction over the past few years , witness the Nanking cargo of 150,000 pieces sold in 1986 for £10.1 million . |
| 16 | An example of his speciality of playing companies involved in take-over battles against each other was his false claims to Guinness and Argyll , bidding in 1986 for Distillers , that each was bugging the other 's executives . |
| 17 | John and Angie Clifford bought their house in Poole in 1986 for £30,000 with a £25,000 mortgage . |
| 18 | Tootal bought Sandhurst in 1986 for £21.7m , and sold it in July for a mere £4.38m . |
| 19 | In 1793 he was appointed surveyor to the Mint , but was dismissed in 1794 for inattention to duty . |
| 20 | From ten match reports in 1882 there were twenty-five in 1886 for Association football . |
| 21 | His plan for Bearwood ( Fig. 21 ) , executed in 1865–74 for John Walter , chief proprietor of The Times , and included in The Gentleman 's House , is an expression of what Mark Girouard describes as the Victorian ‘ genius for analysis and definition ’ , a genius which led them to classify everything from insects through households to societies . |
| 22 | In the creation of some ad hominem mevleviyets it is possible to discern the hand of favouritism : for example , in the creation of a mevleviyet in 959/1552 for Molla " Abd Allah b . |
| 23 | The commode was a relatively recent Patiño purchase , having been acquired at the Deane F. Johnson sale at Christie 's , New York in 1980 for $240,000 ( £133,300 ) . |
| 24 | The pride of Russia 's manuscript collection , it was legally acquired in 1933 for £100,000 by the British Museum . |
| 25 | Built in 1825 for William IV , it is just down the road from Buckingham Palace and , as our pictures reveal , Charles will live in the luxury he has become accustomed to at Kensington Palace and Highgrove . |
| 26 | The Somerville Drama Committee has donated the profits from its performances in 1988–90 for books on drama . |
| 27 | Its stone balcony was carved by Hans Spiess of Frankfurt in 1493 for Vladislav Jagiello , son of the king of Poland who became king of Bohemia in 1471 , and then king of Hungary in 1490 . |
| 28 | With a Royal Charter , and parliamentary approval , he left in 1728 for America . |
| 29 | We eventually sold it in 1972 for £35 and bought an ancient wood-trimmed Morris Traveller , but no car as been as dear to us as Curtis . |
| 30 | The ten Pantograph cars 167–176 were introduced in 129 for service between Talbot Road Station and Fleetwood . |