Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [vb pp] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | However , the Palace did deny a report that senior royal officials had admitted for the first time that the marriage was in difficulty . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In 1983 a hairy snail was discovered in the Thames marshes near Kew , where its ancestors had lived for the last 10,000 years . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The House of Lords held that since the sellers had opted for the one shipment , albeit with separate documents , the contract was not severable . |