Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Commanded by Gen. Satish Nambiar of the Indian army , the force included contingents from 30 countries including for the first time Security Council permanent members France , Russia and the United Kingdom . |
| 2 | The 1972 Act provided for the principal councils ( i.e. the county councils and district councils ) to have a number of major functions . |
| 3 | The outbound time of 1 minute was increased by 30 seconds to allow for the 30 kt wind component . |
| 4 | There are some 30 seminars scheduled for the three days , including Unix communications , TCP/IP administration and the Hungarian experience of implementing client/server architectures . |
| 5 | In 1872 Britain , caught up in the complacency of overseas empire , had only 12 students reading for the Natural Sciences Tripos at Cambridge , while Germany already had 11 technical universities . |
| 6 | PERU : Reports of ‘ disappearances ’ and extrajudicial executions have continued despite President Fujimori 's 1991 directive calling for the Armed Services and National Police to respect human rights . |
| 7 | New Contemporary Show ‘ 92 , six newcomers exhibit for the first time ( until 23 Feb ) . |
| 8 | He arrives in Massillon , Ohio , to discover the entire town of 30,000 people preparing for the big football game the next day . |
| 9 | Whereas a comprehensive secondary school might offer some 30 subjects for all its pupils , and about a dozen subjects account for the great majority of A levels , the curriculum explodes in higher education , part of a post-school explosion even greater when one takes into account the vast number of technical and vocational courses that exist in non-advanced further education . |
| 10 | However , because they had been unemployed , they had not earned enough money in the previous three years to qualify for the mature student allowance , and so it was denied to them . |
| 11 | Some farmers were told that they could either settle at once for 60 per cent of what was due to them , or wait three years to fight for the full amount . |
| 12 | The three squads making for the northern caisson , including Bob Burtenshaw 's men who were not needed at the southern caisson , were less fortunate . |
| 13 | By a summons dated 16 January 1992 solicitors acting for the interim government of the Republic of Somalia applied , pursuant to R.S.C. , Ord. 15 , r. 6(2) , for the Republic of Somalia to be joined as plaintiff in substitution for Aleko Maritime Co . |
| 14 | Although the largest of the 11 suits called for the immediate repayment of $1,200 million , bankers were reported on March 13 to be viewing the move as a defensive and not as a provocative act . |
| 15 | It takes about 18 months to qualify for the short-term benefits like unemployment and sickness benefit . |
| 16 | His third round of 67 left them all for dead , and with 11 holes to go for the Open he was ten shots ahead of the field . |
| 17 | The British team of eighty-five athletes left for the European Championships in Stuttgart in optimistic mood . |
| 18 | To determine whether proliferative patterns in flat rectal mucosal samples can predict the recurrence of adenomatous colorectal polyps , after polypectomy , rectal mucosal specimens removed from the lesions obtained at endoscopy from 55 patients diagnosed for the first time as having adenomatous colorectal polyps . |
| 19 | Attracted by newspaper publicity ( the company did not bother to advertise ) 3000 people applied for the 20 jobs that were available . |
| 20 | But ten minutes sufficed for the blazing gun-fight , and for the affecting death scene with soaring strings . |
| 21 | And yet an remarkable 50 people applied for the recent job at Wigan Athletic a team relegated to the Third Division last season and with five of their best players out of contract . |
| 22 | 10,000 souls weep for the young . |
| 23 | An attendance rate of 90% , however , does not mean that 10% of pupils are absent : the missing 10% could come from a small minority of pupils with lengthy absences — the same ten pupils absent for the whole week — or from a higher percentage of pupils with brief absences — fifty pupils absent for one day over the course of the week . |
| 24 | This compares with data rates of at least 384 kbs needed for the conventional videoconferencing systems using special leased line and satellite facilities . |
| 25 | On 16 November 1987 solicitors acting for the first defendant wrote saying that he hoped to sell the property , and the proceedings were adjourned generally . |
| 26 | It talks about one budget covering for the two centres and it also talks about two heads of centres which is more practicable and more rational than any other s situation that would have been if the merger decision would have stayed . |
| 27 | She also spent nine months working for the Sino-British Trade Council organising and accompanying Chinese commercial delegations visiting the UK . |
| 28 | Using the 100-inch telescope on Mount Wilson , in 1923 Hubble identified for the first time a cepheid variable star in a spiral ‘ nebula ’ ( M 31 in Andromeda ) , and proceeded in the next few years to make similar discoveries in several other such ‘ nebulae ’ . |
| 29 | The French government has cancelled plans for the building of two of five dams planned for the upper Loire valley . |
| 30 | The description of the five wounds prepares for the fifth unit , which fuses memory of the outrage of the historical Passion story with its sacramental meaning , as the bread of heaven is , in effect , rubbished on the Cross . |