Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [noun] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a news conference Dr Mawhinney then publicly thanked staff at the 12 NHS hospitals caring for 21 Bosnian patients . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The competition was tough with 304 UK projects competing for the honours . |
| 4 | A group representing families of the British victims marked the anniversary by handing in a petition to 10 Downing Street calling for a public inquiry . |
| 5 | In the early 1780s Birmingham experts working for him solved the problem of making hard cold-rolled copper bolts , and this patented invention in turn solved the problem of galvanic action in copper-sheathed ships which were iron-fastened . |
| 6 | Like attempts to reduce barriers to world trade , a defence GATT would seek to reduce the barriers to a company from one NATO country bidding for a defence contract in another . |
| 7 | In April the Smolensk Party advised the Roslavl' cell that contributions to the Famine were tailing off in the Roslavl' area , so two new directives were issued : first , to collect another famine tax , with every twenty town-workers or employees supporting one hungry child , and every five peasant households contributing for one hungry adult ; second , to hold agitational meetings in all trade-union branches and at village skhod meetings . |
| 8 | The existing populatin served by the works excluding Harthill is 115,000 and about 202,750 population equivalent allowing for industry . |
| 9 | Lot forty two Lot forty two is the er large selection of auction catalogues and we 've got a sample showing , there we are works of art for you twenty pounds for them at twenty pounds anyone want them for twenty pounds sample showing for twenty pounds , anyone want them for twenty , thank you sir , twenty pounds I 've got in the centre and I shall sell at twenty if there 's no further bid at twenty pounds , any more ? |
| 10 | The House has already passed an amendment to the 1994 Defence Bill calling for talks with the UK on cancelling the project and for halting all civilian as well as military plutonium production . |
| 11 | Sometimes we have emerged after a four hour session praying for revival to gulp down the night air with such joy and satisfaction as can only come when we know we have been with God . |
| 12 | In a separate development , BR yesterday contacted the four rail unions asking for urgent talks on a review of pay and working practices in its signalling and telecommunications division . |
| 13 | Now we all know because we 're print buyers to a larger or greater degree but they 're clients they over-estimate they add about twenty five per cent more on than they need and you have to send them back to sharpen their pencils several times before you 've seen the estimate , they of course know that all print buyers are idiots who keep forgetting all the important things and do n't give them half the information they need like the weight of paper or the fact that there 's to be a pocket at the back so , I think if we got the man I think if we maybe started off with H M S O the print buyer which is more akin to what we are and say well you know these are the problems I 've got I 'm sitting with a six million pound budget buying for the whole of the government of Scotland and I have problems and these are the problems that I have , then we get to the wee man from who says now wait a minute boys I get the rubbish that you send out , that was the message and let's make it funny but slightly aggressive let's highlight the real problems because that 's what it 's about , we 're not here for a nice night we 're here to learn |
| 14 | And we 've got this hundred watt thing running for twenty seconds , so oh say for oh fifty be sixty , for a minute , sixty seconds . |
| 15 | Five hundred NHS patients waiting for plastic surgery are to be treated at private hospitals , as part of a Government initiative to cut waiting lists . |
| 16 | In 61 education nurseries catering for children with special needs surveyed by the Department of Education and Science ( 1983 ) less than one-third were working to a statement of intent about the curriculum . |
| 17 | On May 2 the office of the Pacific Islands news service , Pacnews , was ordered to close and two West Germans working for an associated training programme were expelled from Fiji [ see also p. 36700 ] . |
| 18 | Obviously , Mr Gustafson has not been doing his homework , otherwise he would know that there are 48 UN resolutions calling for the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Cyprus , and the restoration of its territorial integrity and sovereignty . |