Example sentences of "[noun] [n mass] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Feb. 13 up to 50,000 demonstrators outside the CP headquarters called for the deportation of Armenian refugees from Dushanbe ( the authorities insisted that fewer than 40 Armenians had arrived in the city , not thousands as rumoured , and that all had been housed with relatives ) , for the dismissal of the republic 's leadership , and for better job prospects and housing and environmental protection . |
| 2 | The painter Patrick Heron wrote for the New Statesman in London in the 1950s , and used this technique for writing about Braque , whom he compared with Picasso . |
| 3 | This result is in general agreement with the peak generation estimate of 1.2% reflectance determined from the rapid pyrolysis data published for a German coal by Jüntgen and Klein ( 1975 ) ( Figs. 12 and 13 ) . |
| 4 | At about 0500 on 18 October 1990 Ballycastle was under severe threat from rising flood water and Fire Brigade Headquarters asked for help in evacuating people stranded in the area . |
| 5 | Imagine a search aircraft looking for a dinghy in the middle of the ocean . |
| 6 | All the way home in the car Thérèse wept for her father . |
| 7 | When the puffer-fish escapes the jaws of the moray eel by inflating itself , we think , ‘ Perhaps I could do that when the moray eel comes for me ’ . |
| 8 | The emergency doctor was called , the doctor phoned for an ambulance , and for Alice to be taken to hospital , but when the ambulance staff tested for her blood pressure , it was so low they hardly got a reading . |
| 9 | Throughout the dispute , unpaid ambulance staff suspended for their action remained at their posts in order to provide emergency cover . |
| 10 | In the first year-on-year increase since last July , West European car sales rose for April by 8.4% to 1.3m , compared with April 1990 . |
| 11 | Thousands of commuters are facing delays and cancellations after British Rail maintenance staff voted for a series of twenty four hour strikes ; they 're protesting at B R's plans to close three maintenance depots . |
| 12 | There 's scores of Central South folk heading for Wales this weekend to ride and run in one of the great adventure races … its the annual Horse v Man V Mountain Bike challenge … local people have won the race for the last five years … and you can if the winning run or ride continues when we bring you the highlights on Monday … |
| 13 | They were desert folk waiting for the bus . |
| 14 | on appeal 11yr old boy 75% to blame for running across road without looking . |
| 15 | Then , the government says , there 'll be a level private and public sector and it wo n't matter that we sh someone we we which sector people go for . |
| 16 | It also points out that while the UK is enjoying something of an export boom the industry needs to stimulate home sales to allow for continued export investment . |
| 17 | CCG run staff catering for the Royal Bank of Scotland at four locations in Edinburgh , and it is a pleasure to be involved with an organisation that thinks of food as an essential ingredient of daily working life . |
| 18 | In a study of the Panamanian rain forest tree , Tetragastris panamensis ( Burseraceae ) , visited by a wide range of animals , it was found that three mammal species accounted for over 97% of the seeds removed from the tree , the howler monkey ( Allouatta palliata ) alone being responsible for 74% . |
| 19 | A Nigerian air force Hercules C-130 transport aircraft heading for Kaduna crashed on Sept. 26 soon after take-off from Lagos , the capital , killing all 163 passengers on board , many of them military personnel and their families . |
| 20 | In stark contrast , the transport aircraft needed for air mobility trickled out : the Britannia inter-theatre aircraft started coming into service in 1959 ; the Argosy intra-theatre aircraft in 1962 ; and the Belfast strategic freighter in 1964 . |
| 21 | Britain , the US and France warned Iraq yesterday of ‘ serious consequences ’ if it did not remove anti-aircraft missiles threatening UN aircraft searching for nuclear and chemical weapons . |
| 22 | The least was 2oz in a 9lb 1oz fish kept for eight hours . |
| 23 | Not surprisingly , product sales account for most of the transaction applications , with sales of greeting cards , shoes , financial services , car accessories , furnishings and clothes being the among the most popular . |
| 24 | Product sales accounted for around three quarters of its turnover last year . |
| 25 | As always with such radical experiments , business people feared for their prosperity , equating passing traffic with increased turnover . |
| 26 | This particular political failure of the post-war welfare policies , to provide equality and not just the opportunity for individual achievement , was set in its turn against the dislocation that my mother 's 1950s represent : welfarism in one country did not embody the desire people felt for the world that had shaped them . |
| 27 | Just ten years ago , diesel sales accounted for only 0.93pc with just 14,530 sales . |
| 28 | The Cluff series ran for 21 episodes and was extremely popular . |
| 29 | Most anglers who do not night fish settle for either evening or morning , rarely both . |
| 30 | Even things people take for granted we ca n't do . |