Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [vb past] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mankind has a powerful desire to rationalise its actions ; and when people found themselves ten , twenty years after the First World War still paying housing subsidies , this desire to rationalise , and perhaps a natural sense of shame , forbade them to recognise that they were doing so merely out of unwillingness to recognise that 1914 prices and money values had gone for ever . |
| 2 | Intergraph Corp , Huntsville , Alabama has introduced a new Clipper C400 RISC-based desktop and two multiprocessing Intel Corp 80486-based servers geared to run for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT . |
| 3 | Opposition groups continued to call for Diouf 's resignation and the holding of fresh elections [ for 1988 legislative elections , which government opponents claimed had been rigged , see pp. 35812-13 ] . |
| 4 | Earlier reports on Sept. 7 and 10 had claimed that opposition groups had called for a popular revolt against Saddam Hussein , and had agreed on a plan for joint action , with plans for a government-in-exile composed of " various wings of the Iraqi opposition " . |
| 5 | Sufferers from Alzheimer 's disease were to be exempt from the tax — a concession which opposition parties had fought for . |
| 6 | In recent weeks , many opposition politicians had campaigned for guarantees of future immunity from prosecution on charges of corruption . |
| 7 | A small hospital built of wood and bamboo and thatched with palm leaves , with one ward for about ten beds , a labour room and a room for Avice , was built , and six village girls agreed to come for training . |
| 8 | Some of the guinea pigs stopped running for a week after a competitive marathon , while a second group jogged lightly for about 30 minutes every day the week after the race . |
| 9 | In addition to preparing for recruitment the development officers began to prepare for the training and employment of support workers . |
| 10 | Mr Lang also told the grand committee that figures due out this week , covering the year to December 1992 , would show marked improvements in the length of time National Health Service patients spent waiting for treatment ; a record number of patients and that the Government was on course to meet the guarantee that virtually no-one would have to wait more than 18 months for treatment . |
| 11 | Other seminar highlights included Managing for the Nineties , led by Sir John Harvey-Jones . |
| 12 | Until a few weeks ago skin patients had to go for their treatment to the old dermatology hospital in this old TB ward , while research was carried out in a couple of temporary buildings . |
| 13 | Spearheaded by the OOA ( Organization for Information about Nuclear Power ) , 800,000 newspapers were distributed and 170,000 petition signatures collected calling for a postponement of the decision . |
| 14 | Board of Trade officials had tried for nearly twenty years to change the policy of RPM . |
| 15 | Despite the absence of genomic sequence for coding segment 2 , the intron/exon boundaries indicated account for all of the nucleotides in this region of the three cDNA clones shown in a. c , GGFBPP1 encodes a truncated protein . |
| 16 | In spite of the size and complexity of the companies examined , which ranged up to 10 divisions and 40 businesses , but in one case had 27 divisions and 150 businesses , all the planning departments considered scanning for environmental information about every business unit to be important . |
| 17 | Birth rates began to decline for all social groups as a consequence of changing attitudes towards economic conditions and opportunities . |
| 18 | Rescue workers had battled for over an hour to revive them . |
| 19 | Rescue workers had battled for over an hour to revive them . |
| 20 | Whereas during the 1670s and 1680s the City Whigs had argued for an extension of democratic rights within the Corporation , they abandoned this position after the Glorious Revolution and instead became increasingly identified as defenders of the oligarchical forces within the City 's government . |
| 21 | Its member states had joined for diverse reasons , and of the regional states perhaps only Thailand took the Pact seriously . |
| 22 | Other member countries had pressed for an increase to help cover the cost of integrating east German agriculture into the common agricultural policy ( CAP ) . |
| 23 | After all , it was one of the aims of the quota legislation to foster an industry that could promote Britain just as American films promoted America and , with only ten British films a year grossing £100,000 at the local box office , the financiers backing British film companies began to push for expansion . |
| 24 | Leila felt bad about the way things had gone for Ari . |
| 25 | Some of the finance houses chose to apply for bank status ( under the Protection of Depositors Act ) and these finance houses would observe therefore the same reserve requirements as the other banks . |
| 26 | Holbrecht 's street plans had provided for the planning of living quarters , i.e. the planning of Baublocke and of the buildings in these blocks . |
| 27 | At the time , the property industry was concerned that high interest rates had persisted for too long — all of 12 months , in fact . |
| 28 | At the same time , welfare benefits were increased but this did produce complaints about ‘ idlers ’ and ‘ scroungers ’ , across-the-board welfare payments were becoming increasingly expensive and some Labour Party members began to press for more selective methods of eliminating poverty . |
| 29 | The amount of power ministers had seized for themselves over the development of young people was also worrying . |
| 30 | Because the market women became known for their opposition to the regime , the larger markets were heavily infiltrated by members of the security forces . |