Example sentences of "[verb] for a [adj] term " in BNC.
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| 1 | Legislative power is vested in a unicameral National Assembly which sits for a five-year term and consists of six appointed senators and 15 popularly elected representatives . |
| 2 | erm many people came to Kuwait to work for a short term and after a while they realised it 's fine so they continued to stay there for a long time , and that is the haven that we were talking about . |
| 3 | Says Phil Keer : ‘ I think me and most of my friends are looking for a long term relationship . |
| 4 | Anyway I went to see Foxy at lunchtime and erm and he said that erm er and I mentioned it to him and I said you know do n't go up to Sal and say Jess is feeling like erm you know , feeling that he 's , feeling really jealous because er if , if Sal is trying to get back that will just like please him , you know , if he is trying , if that 's the whole aim of the whole , you know , the operation then , then he 'll just feel pleased and it will also embarrass Jessica and she does n't want and if , and if it 's not , if it was nothing , you know , she 'll feel embarrassed so please do n't say anything and he said no no I 'll just make some subtle , subtle comment and he went up to , he told me that he went up to Sal and he goes erm and he says how 's everything going with Jessica and Sal goes yeah it 's good and , and he go erm cos er Phil erm cos Foxy goes oh cos it 's , it 's going really well with me and Catriona , it 's going really well I 'm really enjoying it , what about you , you know , and Sal goes yeah , it 's really good and Foxy goes erm you know is it , is it a long term thing then , you looking for a long term thing do you think and Sal goes yeah , what about you and Foxy goes yeah yeah definitely yeah , you know , cos he was doing it subtly so I came back and I said to Jess you know really , an and Foxy said there was nothing strange about , it was no f you know it was definitely to fe s f erm Sal was er you know being truthful , there was not like erm yeah well yeah you know and trying to get off the subject , it was n't it was completely , yeah , it 's brilliant , going really well , really enjoying it and it 's gon na be long term sort of thing . |
| 5 | If the draftsman wishes to create a lease for a period that can not be made certain at the time of the demise the only way is to express it as being granted for a fixed term subject to a power to break at the expiry of the period . |
| 6 | Of the students in my time , one has since become an archbishop , John Aung Hla ; another , John Maung Pe became the first bishop of Akyab , and another who came for a short term of study and an even shorter curacy was John Richardson , the saintly schoolteacher , catechist , priest and bishop in turn of Car Nicobar , where under his influence the whole of the island population , including witch doctors , became Christian . |
| 7 | Usually , these deals can be negotiated for a short term . |
| 8 | These may be production workers but they may also be senior people ; managers hired for a fixed term and technologists and others used as consultants . |
| 9 | He was due to be inaugurated for a five-year term on Feb. 7 , 1991 , the fifth anniversary of the overthrow of the Duvalier regime . |
| 10 | Fiji 's executive President was to be appointed for a five-year term by the Great Council of Chiefs , which would also nominate 24 Melanesians to the 34-member Senate . |
| 11 | The Egyptian Foreign Affairs Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Ahmed Esmat Abdel Meguid , 68 , was appointed for a five-year term as Secretary-General of the Arab League on May 14 . |
| 12 | It was unthinkable to pledge his word to stay for a fixed term when he might not be able to keep it . |
| 13 | The President also serves for a four-year term ; if no presidential candidate gains a majority of the vote under direct elections , then the President is elected by the Congress . |
| 14 | Legislative power is vested in a single-chamber National Assembly of 175 members , also elected for a five-year term . |
| 15 | Legislative power is vested in the 180-member National Assembly , also elected for a five-year term . |
| 16 | And an Oxford student has been found hanged at her home just a few days before she was due to return for a new term . |
| 17 | Under the FSM 's electoral system the 14-member Congress was composed of 10 senators , each elected for a two-year term , and four at-large senators — one each elected for a four-year term from the four states , Chuuk ( formerly known as Truk ) , Kosrae , Pohnpei and Yap . |
| 18 | The North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) Assembly , comprising legislators from 16 member countries , elected Loïc Bouvard of France as president on Nov. 19 ; Bouvard , 63 , the first Frenchman to hold the post in 33 years , was elected for a two-year term to succeed Charles Rose , a member of the US Congress . |
| 19 | Under the provisions of the 1982 Constitution executive power is exercised by a President elected for a four-year term by a simple majority of votes . |
| 20 | The 1949 Constitution established Costa Rica as a democratic state with an executive President directly elected for a four-year term . |
| 21 | Legislative power is held by a unicameral Legislative Assembly similarly elected for a four-year term . |
| 22 | Legislative power is held by a 72-member unicameral National Congress , similarly elected for a four-year term ( with 60 members elected on a provincial basis every two years and 12 members elected for a four-year term on a national basis ) . |
| 23 | Legislative power is held by a 72-member unicameral National Congress , similarly elected for a four-year term ( with 60 members elected on a provincial basis every two years and 12 members elected for a four-year term on a national basis ) . |
| 24 | There is an executive President and a Congress consisting of a 114-member Senate and a 199-member House of Representatives , the President and Congress being directly elected for a four-year term . |
| 25 | Legislative authority is held by the bicameral Congress , comprising a 27-member Senate and a 130-member Chamber of Deputies , both elected for a four-year term by universal adult suffrage . |
| 26 | The 1980 Constitution , which was put into effect in March 1981 [ see pp. 30619-20 ; 30931 ] , provided for the re-establishment , effective 1989 , of the bi-cameral National Congress , consisting of a Senate of 38 elected and nine appointed members , all of whom were to serve an eight-year term , and a Chamber of Deputies whose 120 members were to be directly elected for a four-year term . |
| 27 | The Kingdom of Norway is a parliamentary monarchy ; executive power is vested formally in the king ( currently Olav V ) and effectively in the Prime Minister and the Council of State ( Cabinet ) ; legislative power is vested in the 165-member Parliament ( Storting ) elected for a four-year term . |
| 28 | Elected for a six-year term by universal suffrage ( or by a 301-member electoral college in case no candidate obtains an absolute majority ) , the President appoints a Cabinet under a Prime Minister , which must enjoy the confidence of the 200-member parliament ( Eduskunta ) , elected for a four-year term . |
| 29 | The unicameral 300-member Chamber of Deputies is elected for a four-year term by universal adult suffrage under a system of reinforced proportional representation . |
| 30 | The Kingdom of Thailand ( formerly Siam ) is a constitutional monarchy with a bicameral parliament consisting of a 261-member Senate appointed by the monarch , currently King Bhumipol Adulyadej , on the recommendation of the Prime Minister , and a 347-member House of Representatives elected for a four-year term by universal adult suffrage . |