Example sentences of "[verb] [n mass] for " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The Conservative government signed cheques with abandon in the run-up to the 1992 polls , and over the coming year will have to borrow £1,000 for every citizen . |
| 2 | In El Salvador , US grants are building barracks for demobilised FMLN guerrillas ; in Nicaragua , General Humberto Ortega , brother of the Sandinista ex-president , Daniel , recently aroused a storm by pinning the Sandinistas ' highest military medal on the chest of the US military attacheé . |
| 3 | Congress , having pooh-poohed Mr Bush 's first proposals as inadequate , appropriated $433m for Poland and Hungary in fiscal 1990 . |
| 4 | He 'd make $500,000 for every dollar the stock rises or $46m if the stock ever gets back to the $145 range . |
| 5 | Phil , from Paddington , West London , who has been a postman for 20 years , also wins £1,000 for his sorting office . |
| 6 | Using data for the period 1954–74 , Khalil and Hanna ( 1984 ) have demonstrated that since the scheme was initiated the dissolved salt content of the Nile at the head of the delta has increased by 29 per cent . |
| 7 | Using data for the Palaeozoic and Tertiary coals , it is found that the maximum rate of hydrocarbon generation for both coals occurs at a vitrinite reflectance of about 1% ( Figs. 10 and 11 ) . |
| 8 | Phillips analysed the relationship between the annual rate of change of money wage rates ( or the rate of wage inflation ) and the annual average unemployment percentage , using data for the UK from 1861 to 1957 . |
| 9 | Figure 12.2 illustrates a Phillips relationship using data for the UK between 1953 and 1967 . |
| 10 | Using data for concurrent five-minute periods , he found that for 14 , 15 , 16 and the morning of 19 October , there was a highly significant positive relationship between the volume of index arbitrage and the size of the mispricing . |
| 11 | Using data for the near and next-near futures contracts for the period from July 1984 to September 1986 , they found clear support that futures prices lead spot prices by one minute . |
| 12 | the variance of the natural logarithm of the daily price relatives computed using data for a number of days , that is , ( Anderson , 1985 ; Barnhill , Jordan and Seale , 1987 ; Cornell , 1981 ; Kenyon , Kling , Jordan , Seale and McCabe , 1987 ; Milonas , 1986b ) ; |
| 13 | Wiggins ( 1992 ) studied the performance of modified versions of the Parkinson and Garman and Klass estimators using data for S&P500 futures from 1982 to 1989 . |
| 14 | Using data for each of the individual futures contracts , Park and Sears used regression ( allowing for autocorrelation ) to fit the equation where V is the implicit variance and M : is the number of days to delivery . |
| 15 | These closures have to be seen in the context of changes in the number of children of primary school age ; this is illustrated in Figure 5.7 , using data for England . |
| 16 | These closures have to be seen in the context of changes in the number of children of secondary school age ; this is illustrated in Figure 5.11 , using data for England . |
| 17 | This is illustrated in Figure 5.12 , again using data for England . |
| 18 | Using data for a selection of metropolitan regions , the models will be tested for feasibility , accuracy and sensitivity . |
| 19 | Figure 4.11 ( cont. ) ( c ) As Figure 4.11(b) using data for Gross National Product . |
| 20 | The technique can be illustrated using data for polyisobutylene at several temperatures . |
| 21 | In order to avoid bias , we did two different meta-analyses , one using data for all patients in the trial , a second using data for the UK patients . |
| 22 | In order to avoid bias , we did two different meta-analyses , one using data for all patients in the trial , a second using data for the UK patients . |
| 23 | He was gathering data for a book about world metro systems , a task on which he had been engaged for years . |
| 24 | Information on crofting income is limited , but we were given data for two examples , which we were warned are not typical . |
| 25 | Rovers warned Aston Villa last night that they will want £1million for striker John Aldridge . |
| 26 | Indeed , Malingreau and Tucker ( 1988 ) report that there is evidence from remotely sensed data for the recolonisation by forest vegetation of some ranches in the Matto Grosso following the abandonment of farms that were never economically or ecologically viable ( see Fearnside 1984 ) . |
| 27 | The use of remotely sensed data for landscape classification in Wales |
| 28 | Figure 10.2 contains some paired data for all the regions of England and Wales , showing their morbidity and mortality rates . |
| 29 | A decade after we started to gather data for our research , the picture is still depressingly familiar . |
| 30 | The point of the interview is to make full and systematic use of this to gather data for research purposes . |