Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] for [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Special Discount is being continued on the same basis ( see page 2 ) and for those policies which qualify for the first time the increase is offset by approximately 6% . |
| 2 | The Front comprised political and religious organizations and parties based in Iraq and Jordan , including the Moslem Brotherhood , which agreed for the first time to co-operate without preconditions with nationalist and non-religious groups . |
| 3 | The Company 's hint was taken , and on 6th July the Charity Commissioners approved the new Board , which met for the first time twelve days later and agreed to advertise for a Headmaster who — after all the fuss and contrary to what may have been expected — was required to be an Anglican clergyman ! |
| 4 | The committee , which meets for the first time next Tuesday , is expected to end its deliberations in January . |
| 5 | Which marks for the last test give a final average of fourteen marks for So the one test is gon na give him that is n't it ? |
| 6 | The causes of this are not entirely clear , but were probably a combination of the increasing costs of warfare ( as the empire came under severe pressure from the barbarians across the Rhine and Danube , and from the Persians in the east ) and of the exhaustion of the Roman mines in Spain , which seem for the first two centuries AD to have provided an important contribution to the difference between Rome 's income ( taxes ) and expenditure ( especially on war ) . |
| 7 | The other two mammal species which bred for the first time were a pair of Geoffroy 's marmoset which had one youngster , and the cheetah female , Angie , who produced four cubs . |
| 8 | Gareth Rees , co-ordinator of the Norwich Union Coastwatch programme at Farnborough College , said : ‘ Despite increased government legislation and political rhetoric , we are faced with results which indicate for the fourth year running a deterioration in the state of our coastline . |
| 9 | That year Nestlé — which accounts for a tenth of the Swiss stockmarket — opened its register to overseas investors , and a number of other companies have followed suit . |
| 10 | In America , which accounts for a third of all luxury purchases , shares of Tiffany & Co. , an upper-crust jeweller and a weathervane of the industry , fell on news of disappointing sales . |
| 11 | Nonetheless , George Albert Smith 's name stands as the inventor of a colour process which was viable , which was shown worldwide , and which presented for the first time on the screen a photographically produced colour picture . |
| 12 | The issue of the transformation to political pluralism was regarded as the main obstacle to progress in the peace talks between the government and the Mozambique National Resistance ( Renamo or MNR ) , which resumed for a second round in Rome on Aug. 14 . |
| 13 | The Secret Committee on the Peasant Question , which convened for the first time on 3 January 1857 , consisted entirely of Nicholaevan grandees . |
| 14 | A group of Irrawaddy dolphins , which appeared for the first time in Laos last year , are in danger of dying out as a result of the increasing use of gill nets by local fishermen . |
| 15 | This venture laid the foundations for the Hull Arctic whaling trade , which prospered for the next sixty years . |
| 16 | Figure 2 shows the undulator for this new facility , which lasted for the first time in January 1992 . |
| 17 | This publication , and the Directory of Mines and Quarries , on which work for the next edition continued , provide prime sources of basic data for the United Kingdom minerals industry . |
| 18 | That level of investment , currently running at £1 billion a year , will be sustained by the Government over the public expenditure planning period which runs for the next three years and , I am quite confident , will run over the next 10 years . |
| 19 | I 'm sure the win will do wonders for the team 's confidence , but let's see what happens for the next 5 games at least before we make rash predictions . |
| 20 | I was my own boss for a start — the man I worked for left after about seven months , and the man who took over did n't know anything about it : I knew more about the job than he did , so I had to tell him what to do for the first six months … in fact he tried to get the job upgraded anyway . |
| 21 | Our connection for the prison camp did not leave until 11 o'clock and the Feldwebel was wondering what to do for the next two hours when the air raid siren blew . |