Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By July 30 , 12 candidates had registered for the presidential elections due to be held simultaneously with legislative elections on September 29-30 . |
| 2 | The extension of the franchise to all adults created a situation in which political parties had to compete for the mass vote and so had to organise the electorate to support their candidates at the polls . |
| 3 | The contras ' new military commander , Israel Galeano ( who replaced Enrique Bermúdez , the organization 's nominal head , in early February ) , said , however , that the contras intended to wait for the formal handover of power before disbanding . |
| 4 | According to the 1990 report of the UN Economic Commission for Africa ( ECA ) , 100 million people , one-quarter of Africa 's population , were receiving less than 80 per cent of daily food needs , and per capita incomes had fallen for the 12th successive year . |
| 5 | A week later , when the workers had to vote for the new Committee , most of the women voted for Karen . |
| 6 | However , the Palace did deny a report that senior royal officials had admitted for the first time that the marriage was in difficulty . |
| 7 | There were still bits and pieces left to organize for the coming weekend , when she was hosting the first major social gathering of the new year . |
| 8 | Labourers began to scramble for the available employment ; unemployment increased ; while labourers still continued to anticipate marriage . |
| 9 | British Rail recently put fares up on the affected routes saying customers had to pay for the vast improvements they 'd made . |
| 10 | Only one of these studies attempted to control for the possible effects of changes in price volatility on volume , even though two of these studies ( and others ) found some evidence of a positive relationship between volatility and volume . |
| 11 | The inhabitants of the closes and the tenements had headed for the high ground , leaving the trams and turmoil behind for the mist , the heather , and a good brew-up in the but and ben . |
| 12 | In 1983 a hairy snail was discovered in the Thames marshes near Kew , where its ancestors had lived for the last 10,000 years . |
| 13 | The process of forming a government was slowed by numerous allegations that as many as 10 per cent of new deputies had worked for the former Ministry of State Security police ( " Stasi " ) as active informants . |
| 14 | Danish politicians and environmental groups had called for the permanent shutdown of the plant , not least because Sweden is already committed to phasing out nuclear power by 2010 . |
| 15 | Other seminar highlights included Managing for the Nineties , led by Sir John Harvey-Jones . |
| 16 | The House of Lords held that since the sellers had opted for the one shipment , albeit with separate documents , the contract was not severable . |
| 17 | Its close links with the English cathedrals had to wait for the Norman reorganization , which first made possible in England an absenteeism and pluralism on the German model . |