Example sentences of "[n mass] [verb] [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report added that it had cost Iran between $30,000,000 and $40,000,000 to provide services for the refugees . |
| 2 | However , Mitterrand denied on Jan. 20 that there was any geographical limitation on French commitment to the allied force and on Jan. 24 French aircraft bombed Iraq for the first time . |
| 3 | Tomorrow the journey continues ; as the aircraft unloads hope for the hungry . |
| 4 | Of those universities who also support Ph D research in Scottish geology , Edinburgh 's students and staff have consulted 100 of the theses in data set C. For the major universities researching in the field , the numbers of thesis borrowers from particular universities are in proportion ( ratio nearly 1:1 ) to the numbers of Ph D theses produced in these universities . |
| 5 | ‘ They are much smaller than I expected ’ is the usual remark from people seeing puffins for the first time . |
| 6 | The article described some of the technical problems for Kodak as their staff produced prints for the TV show . |
| 7 | Even that incomplete list of achievements takes on special significance when people encounter Nadia for the first time and learn how a genetic abnormality meant she was born with only one finger on each hand . |
| 8 | These matters of a more technical constitutional nature are perhaps not immediately obvious to the man in the street , nor even to politicians ; yet it is incredible that there should still be people advocating federalism for the EC given the abysmal record of other multinational federations . |
| 9 | I have already suggested that in speech we normally plan at the point of utterance and that is evidenced in those typical features of speech which appear so surprising and , indeed , shocking to people inspecting transcripts for the first time . |
| 10 | Well offer the , offer the forty people reduced tickets for the barn dance . |
| 11 | Many younger old people run clubs for the elderly and help organize meals services . |
| 12 | This additional assessment in general SVQs will also be used as the means to identify merit for the group award . |
| 13 | The shares are the recovery play in the sector , with the guarantee of future spares sales providing reassurance for the faint-hearted . |
| 14 | A new leaflet aimed at young people starting work for the first time has been produced by the Inland Revenue . |
| 15 | I find newspaper bingo even more repulsive than the cinema-hall type , because it encourages people to read newspapers for the wrong reason . |
| 16 | If you have a few people taking orders for the same goods , you must be sure that one does n't commit the firm to a big shipment when another has just sold the last of the stock . |
| 17 | On the extreme Right , disparate reactionary groups formed the violently loyalist , nationalist and anti-Semitic Union of the Russian People to rally support for the Tsar . |
| 18 | Mrs Froggatt organised bring and buy sales to raise cash for the organisation , but after she 'd sent off a check for more than three hundred pounds she heard nothing more . |
| 19 | The Bible , then , must be true or false like a newspaper report ; few people had room for the truths of poetry or of fiction in their religion . |
| 20 | Because people buy products for the benefits they confer , successful salespeople relate product features to consumer benefits ; product features are the means by which benefits are derived . |
| 21 | San Jose , California , Microfield Graphics Inc will roll out the X8 colour graphics controller , its graphics processing controller for the technical and manufacturing markets , for X-Windows and Microsoft Windows systems . |
| 22 | The contaminated sediment , containing the highest degree of pollution found in widespread sediment tests around Shetland , is not far from one of the most important herring spawning grounds for the North Sea . |