Example sentences of "[vb past] their [noun pl] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | During November the three largest parties announced their candidates for the presidential elections scheduled for April 26 , 1992 , to elect a successor to Kurt Waldheim , who had in June 1991 declined to stand for a second term [ see p. 38298 ] . |
| 2 | They shared their responsibilities for the smooth running of Zone I with the enthusiasm of those bound by a loveless marriage . |
| 3 | He asked their Lordships for the forthcoming Proof before the Sheriff to be heard away from Orkney in mainland Scotland . |
| 4 | Youngsters aged between 14 and 18 made their bids for the title of Cleveland 's Young Consumer of the Year at Middlesbrough town hall last night . |
| 5 | Christies International , one of the world 's leading art auctioneers , yesterday revealed their profits for the last six months had been hammered by £1 million down to £2,112,000 . |
| 6 | The Expenditure Committee returned to this field in 1978 , and reiterated their recommendations for the appointment of planning assessors and for a review of the planning system . |
| 7 | This year , as the locos dropped their fires for the last time , the cash bag totalled more than £1243.72 . |
| 8 | Clerical staff at Oxford Polytechnic vacated their desks for the picket line . |
| 9 | Merrill Lynch 's 1985 survey of relocation policies found that 96 per cent of the ‘ 303 Times Top 1000 companies ’ interviewed compensated their employees for the costs of living in temporary accommodation , with 78 per cent compensating for hotel and/or rented accommodation for a fixed period , generally for up to three months . |
| 10 | Other unions were equally alarmed by the potential scale of the problem , which was just emerging as schools received their budgets for the new financial year . |
| 11 | Yesterday , Darlington and South West Durham health authorities unveiled their plans for the new Patient 's Charter at a press conference in Darlington . |
| 12 | The Security Council debate had been preceded by a series of statements by and an exchange of letters between de Klerk and Mandela in which each stated their terms for the resumption of constitutional talks . |
| 13 | And a couple of young clerks , that 's where they bred their clerks for the future use sort of thing you know . |
| 14 | He was short and deeply unpopular with everyone because he had cheated them out of their money when he collected their taxes for the Roman army . |
| 15 | While directors like Ken Russell and Nic Roeg carried on along their own idiosyncratic paths , and many of the directors who had flourished in the 1960s packed their bags for the trip to LA , there were no indications that those left behind had begun to face up to the economic realities of British film production , or what would have to be done to patch up the damage done to the craft of filmmaking , more particularly screenwriting , during the dead times of the 1950s and into the 1960s . |
| 16 | Most Bangladeshi mothers breastfed their babies for the first few weeks , switching to either combination or bottle feeding after this period . |
| 17 | On 25th May , while the German army raced ruthlessly across Belgium and the inhabitants of England watched their skies for the first signs of airborne invasion , the scientists in the Oxford Pathology Department performed a crucial experiment . |
| 18 | The majority of those who were working lost their jobs for the reasons already detailed above . |
| 19 | At the last , Marion and Elizabeth brought their babies for the old man to bless . |
| 20 | Karl-Heinz Kretschmer resigned as the ( CDU ) deputy Minister President of Brandenburg following accusations that he too had been involved with the Stasi , and two PDS deputies in the Saxony-Anhalt parliament , Gunter Scholz and Rolf Funda , resigned their seats for the same reason on the recommendation of the party . |
| 21 | ENGLAND 'S Colts emulated their seniors for the first time in three seasons at the Parc de Pugh in Brecon by toppling the Welsh Youth in no uncertain fashion . |
| 22 | MINISTERS also published their plans for the ‘ cabling of Britain ’ last week . |
| 23 | 28th August 1930 was a sad day , as the islanders closed their doors for the last time . |
| 24 | However , on Oct. 24 Democrats in the House appeared willing to compromise when they abandoned their demands for the inclusion of surtax , in favour of phasing out personal tax exemptions for those with incomes in excess of $100,000 . |