Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] [noun] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The total number of people waiting for NHS treatment in the UK rose to more than one million in March 1990. 25% of inpatients wait for longer than a year for treatment . |
| 2 | About 20% of patients recruited for this study were cardiac arrest survivors . |
| 3 | You 'd do it if you were on a bank executive and you said well only five percent of people ask for independent advice , why do we bother with all that lot ? |
| 4 | About 15% of house-buyers opt for this report . |
| 5 | Windows 4GL 2.0 supports a range of databases at run-time , prices start at $1,000 with ships set for next month . |
| 6 | At the RS/6000 launch , Filip said that the workstation business was definitely profitable in the fourth quarter of 1992 , and in the current quarter has been growing faster than the 30% to 35% achieved for all of 1992 . |
| 7 | Chrzanowski ruled out inviting Jaruzelski to a Sejm meeting , but told the press that he might be summoned by a special committee , set up as a result of the resolution , to investigate ways of compensating people for wrongs inflicted for political reasons under martial law . |
| 8 | The good people of Maine opted for another candidate . |
| 9 | Right so , you know , there are those who would teach that Jesus he would die for our sins and he 's forgiven us sins , but only those who come to him , Jesus died for the sin of the whole world , for every man , woman , boy and girl that has ever lived or ever will live , he died for the sin of the whole world , not just for those even who lived after his death , that 's why it talks about in the Old Testament people like Abraham looking for that day , and so Jesus who in , when he died , because he 's eternal , so we 've got the problems with time , God has n't got problems with time , he 's eternal and so his sacrifice , the sacrifice of him on the cross was effective for Abraham as it is for you , it was as effective for David as it was for Paul otherwise Abraham would never of had his sins forgiven because what happened with all the sacrifice with all the little lambs that were killed and all the goats and all the rest they only acted as a covering for sin , did n't take them away , it covered them , what for , until the moment when Jesus would come and would take those sins away and so when you think of David 's sin , his adultery and his murder , how does he get forgiven for that because Jesus died from the cross and he takes upon himself David 's sin and he takes upon him Abraham 's sin and Noah 's sin and Adam 's sin , just as much as your sin and the person who will be born in ten years time their sin also , all our sins er as Gloria just read there from , from one John to two they were all of him he has died for every one , well that 's his humiliation , hurry along quickly now his exhortation , the period from Jesus 's resurrection onward is referred to as to the , as the state of exhortation , now what does that term mean , well as Jesus according to his divine nature has always been , he was always every where , now in his human nature , before , be , sorry it 's not , it 's not on that one , but before he , he came to earth , he was every where , he was God , he was , he was omnia present that means he was every where at the same time , but he takes upon himself he 's su , he 's , he 's human nature and he takes upon himself the limitations and when Jesus is walking down second avenue in , in Jerusalem he 's not in Nazareth that 's why there were times when people came to er , to , to , came rushing out because they heard that Jesus was passing by , see he was n't there resident with them , he passed by , now he 's gone back to heaven and where is he , he 's in heaven , he , er whereabouts , where do you think Jesus is now , that resurrected body that was glorified that has gone back to heaven , where do you think it is |
| 10 | The current clampdown on drinking and driving has allowed people without embarrassment to ask for soft drinks at functions and market forces have led to an influx of low-alcohol wines and beers . |
| 11 | Now the State has already got a problem because in the next century , it will have insufficient people at work to pay for old age pensions we already know Mr Portillo is doing a pension review and is looking about only targeting it to the needy at the bottom well that means a lot of people like you and me will miss out on State pensions . |
| 12 | Only $25,000 p.a. at present to care for great Renaissance garden |
| 13 | £2,500 in prizes offer for Friesian breeders |
| 14 | First performed in 1946 this series of concerts ran for 37 years , earning an entry in the Guinness Book of Records . |
| 15 | This was done very effectively in the late seventies in campaigns by Whitbread , who ran a series of ads asking for public comments on a number of propositions about the law affecting pubs and licensing ; and subsequently by the major banks , who ran a joint campaign partly designed to deter the threat of nationalization — a campaign which attracted many thousands of replies from the public . |
| 16 | A series of holes allows for different window sizes . |
| 17 | These seminars were part of a series of events designed for all those involved in general SVQs , including teachers , lecturers , trainers , centre co-ordinators , and verifiers . |
| 18 | The impact of a series of I 's in theme position is not the same as the impact of a series of verbs inflected for first person , such as ‘ saw-I ’ , ‘ took-I ’ , etc. , where it is difficult to discern a theme line as clearly as in the pronoun-plus-verb combination . |