Example sentences of "for the [num] [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for the 500 million yen in illicit political donations which he acknowledged having received from Watanabe , he claimed not to remember to whom it was distributed , and suggested that his secretary , Masahisa Haibara , who had directly received the money from Watanabe , should be questioned on the matter . |
| 2 | It was reported on Sept. 17 that the Federation of European Stock Exchanges had agreed to initiate a shared electronic market information service for the 200-300 largest companies in the new EC equity market , but no firm timetable was set for the move . |
| 3 | MARCH quarter results for the six gold mines in the Gold Fields of South Africa stable , are down marginally on the preceding quarter . |
| 4 | Now I do n't think that 's right , fair or democratic and if we 've shied away from it for years handling this issue and now we 're in the position where this house has total responsibility for the thirty thousand citizens in total of Gibralt it 's not the electorate , the total population , thirty thousand and we continued to deny them vote yet they are citizens of the European union under our own legislation and accepted as such by the European parliament and it is wholly wrong Mr Deputy Speaker that the boundaries that we 're discussing in this bill were not drawn so that and it could easily have been done , that we could have incorporated the twenty odd thousand European union citizens of Gibraltar who do wish to be part of Spain and wo n't be for fifty years or more until it 's been a democracy that long , but to give them the right to vote . |
| 5 | Elections were held on the same day for the 216 elective seats in the ( enlarged ) National Assembly , with voters choosing between two candidates in most constituencies ; eight candidates were returned unopposed , among them six serving Cabinet ministers . |
| 6 | By-elections for the five remaining seats in the 128-member National Assembly were held on Oct. 11 [ see pp. 39071 ; 39117 ; for details of general election held in late August and early September ] . |
| 7 | Not surprisingly , Ontos ' chief technical officer , Timothy Andrews , claims his company 's technology is at the top of pile of object contenders , but he admits that there is room enough for the five main players in a market that is worth some $100m-$150m-a-year in his estimation . |
| 8 | SOUTH AFRICA 's preparations for the two one-day internationals in Trinidad this weekend were disrupted when the Queen 's Park Oval 's net wickets were ruled unfit . |
| 9 | John had made a few 1st Division appearances with Charlton , but undoubtedly the climax of his career came when he captained Palace to promotion to that premier division of world soccer at the end of 1968–69 — and then maintained his high level of performance by helping to keep the Palace in the top flight for the two remaining seasons in which he stayed with the club . |
| 10 | The pressure will really be turned on if her position as the sole candidate for the two tonner slot in the British AC team is contested by Don Wood , who , it is rumoured , may charter Juno IV . |
| 11 | However , when the two letters to be matched were presented simultaneously , rather than successively , the pattern of results differed for the two visual fields in such a way as to suggest that the right hemisphere was still using a visually-based strategy while the left hemisphere was using an acoustically based strategy . |
| 12 | There was mixed luck for the two relegated sides in the Third Division . |
| 13 | Clarke looks sure to play in the final two Tests on the blind-side of the scrum and his promotion is a huge letdown for the two original selections in that position , Mike Teague and Mick Galwey . |
| 14 | The Major would call at Dollingston School and ask for the two biggest boys in class . |
| 15 | Is n't it strange that we are taught about many things which may never come to pass and yet most of us are not prepared for the one inevitable occurrence in our lives ? |
| 16 | Although I can not go into too much detail , I would like to look at players between the ages of 15 to 17 , as they will hold the key to the future , but I do n't think too many of them would be ready in time for the 1995 European championships in Dublin . |
| 17 | Having been commissioned to write an opera buffa for the 1774–75 carnival season in Munich , Mozart , again accompanied by his father , set off in order to complete the composition , La finta giardiniera . |
| 18 | As many observed at the time , the question could have similarly been asked nearly fifty years earlier with regard to the relative lack of support for the 1926 General Strike in the same county : as Sunley ( 1990 ) describes the two geographies , they have ‘ striking parallels ’ . |
| 19 | President Hissène Habré had decided that his ruling National Union for Independence and Revolution ( UNIR ) party would not run a formal campaign , and the 436 candidates for the 123 elective seats in the new National Assembly ( which replaced the National Consultative Council — CNC — whose 30 members had been appointed ) ran as individuals . |
| 20 | The first five items here had to be held over to make space for the 1990 Social List in the March issue … |
| 21 | In this sale of French furniture eighteenth and nineteenth-century work is set off by pieces especially created by François Linke for the 1900 International Exhibition in Paris . |