Example sentences of "[n mass] [noun sg] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has received short shrift from the CEGB , having recently been moved to an out-of-the-way office at Barnwood , the central headquarters base for the board 's engineering development and design teams . |
| 2 | Secondly , a company 's articles could not require more than a 50% majority for the appointment or removal of directors , nor confer on holders of a particular class of shares an exclusive right to nominate directors . |
| 3 | DIXONS , the electrical retailing giant , looks certain to launch a vigorous campaign for a Monopolies Commission investigation of the £461million bid for the company by Kingfisher . |
| 4 | DIXONS , the electrical retailing giant , looks certain to launch a vigorous campaign for a Monopolies Commission investigation of the £461million bid for the company by Kingfisher . |
| 5 | That rise means Alliance has outstripped the FT-A Index for the fourth successive year , this time by nearly 5 per cent . |
| 6 | This formed an initial " persons ' data base for the selected location , to which further fields of information could easily be added . |
| 7 | GRAND METROPOLITAN , the international food and drinks group , has put in a £150m bid for the Whyte & Mackay spirits business being sold by leisure group Brent Walker . |
| 8 | The trustees of Carmel village hall , near Holywell , have been paying a nominal £1 rent for the last 21 years . |
| 9 | Art Balfe will transfer to XWH(N) , where he will work as HR superintendent for the North Slope in Prudhoe Bay , Alaska . |
| 10 | or , if you continue on your holiday , we will give you £20 compensation for the first 12 hours ' delay ; for each subsequent 12-hour delay we will give you a further £10 — up to a maximum of £60 per person in total . |
| 11 | We have therefore included in the cost of your holiday insurance protection : after a 12-hour delay at the start of your holiday , you have the right to cancel and get a full refund of all the money you have paid us , excluding insurance premiums — or , if you continue on your holiday , we will give you £20 compensation for the first 12- hours ' delay : for each subsequent 12-hour delay we will give you a further £10 — up to a maximum of £100 per person in total . |
| 12 | Each data record for the zone contains the vertical and horizontal coordinate for a single point ; the vertical coordinate is entered in columns 11–20 and the horizontal coordinate in columns 21–30 . |
| 13 | ‘ Here we have the cubicles for the walking wounded or minor cases , then the trolley area for the major cases , and then the resus. room for the crisis cases . |
| 14 | British Steel , which yesterday broke through the 100p barrier for the first time in almost two years , lost 3p today to 100p as investors became jittery that its recovery potential might not be as great as originally anticipated . |
| 15 | Data collection for the Infant School project is now complete , and the process of analysis and writing up is now under way . |
| 16 | The programme of research is focused around three topics : technical aspects of geographical information system ( GIS ) technology , a number of demonstrator projects as ‘ show-piece ’ GISs , and perhaps a pilot data library for the North of England . |
| 17 | He won a £20,000 prize for the invention just a few years before he died in 1776 at the age of 83 . |
| 18 | AR-WACC has decided to establish a computerised communication data bank for the Region . |
| 19 | Visualisation Data Explorer for the RS/6000 is $5,900 ; IBM also offers a 60-day free evaluation copy . |
| 20 | For example , some seven seconds of processor time are required to create the data structure for the entry ‘ eight ’ ( twice the time taken to retrieve the entry from the database ) . |
| 21 | Since the company made its appeal — and contrary to their current data sheet for the drug — Upjohn has recommended delaying Depo injections until the sixth week after childbirth . |
| 22 | A unit should be up and running in three to six months with sales of $1m forecast for the first year . |
| 23 | These include a 3% target for the overall ratio of Public Sector Borrowing ( PSBR ) to GDP , and a 60% target for the ratio of public debt to GDP . |
| 24 | The teenager was ordered to pay £54.34 compensation for the damage to the car . |
| 25 | I was very surprised when a bloke in 1990 was asking £250 ono for the same guitar . |
| 26 | This was on the basis of continued strong earnings growth throughout the recession , with Wolters Kluwer achieving a first half jump of 39% in after-tax earnings and forecasting a 20% rise for the whole of 1992 , and Elsevier predicting a rise of 16% for the full year . |
| 27 | Prices start from £354 return for the car and driver on the Dieppe to Frejus route with £82 for additional adults and £38 for children . |
| 28 | MCI Communications Corp has reported that first quarter net profits rose 7.1% at $151.0m after a $17m charge for the cost of early repayment of debt , on turnover that rose 11.8% to $2,810m ; net earnings per share were 10% ahead at $0.56 . |
| 29 | This month the £10 prize for the best letter goes to Richard Wallis from Twickenham |
| 30 | This month the £10 prize for the best letter goes to Pat Weatherley , wife of Outdoor Action Chief Gear Tester Dave Weatherley . |