Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [verb] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In May 1984 and in March 1985 Sihanouk called for a neutralised Kampuchea with an international peacekeeping force guaranteed by the superpowers , ASEAN , Vietnam or Australia/New Zealand . |
| 2 | Legislative power is held by a 72-member unicameral National Congress , similarly elected for a four-year term ( with 60 members elected on a provincial basis every two years and 12 members elected for a four-year term on a national basis ) . |
| 3 | I travelled extensively throughout the country for six months to prepare for a nationwide extension of the programme , which was funded by the European Community . |
| 4 | He spent almost 10 years looking for a Scottish hotel near a large population centre , but found nowhere suitable . |
| 5 | Under its 1949 Basic Law ( Constitution ) , the Federal Republic of Germany ( West Germany ) is a " democratic and social federal state " whose organs are ( i ) the Federal Diet ( Bundestag ) , the lower house of parliament , comprising 497 members elected for a four-year term by a mixed system of proportional representation and direct voting , and 22 members elected by the West Berlin House of Representatives ; ( ii ) the Federal Council ( Bundesrat ) , the upper house of parliament , comprising 41 members of the governments of the Republic 's 10 Länder ( states ) and four representatives appointed by the West Berlin Senate ; ( iii ) the Federal President ( Bundespräsident — currently Richard von Weizsäcker ) elected for a five-year term by the Federal Assembly ( Bundesversammlung ) comprising the members of the Bundestag and an equal number of delegates nominated by the Länder parliaments ; and ( iv ) the federal government ( Bundesregierung ) consisting of the Federal Chancellor ( Bundeskanzler — currently Helmut Kohl ) elected by the Bundestag on the proposal of the Federal President and his or her ministers . |
| 6 | The following day , on August 1st , the South African Under-15 schoolboys arrive for a four-week tour of England . |
| 7 | Six artists , drawn from the museum 's collection , will be shown in depth , dividing into three pairs chosen for a visual , rather than art historical , dialogue . |
| 8 | Marsh was dismissed with three minutes to go for a late challenge on Dimitr Radchenko , scorer of Spartak 's first goal , in their 2–0 success which made it 6–2 on aggregate . |
| 9 | On Feb. 21 Mazowiecki called for a Polish-German treaty guaranteeing the post 1945 Oder-Neisse border , to be negotiated between Poland and both German states . |
| 10 | Then , leading 12-4 , Hall took three points running for a convincing victory . |
| 11 | Eventually , leading 12-4 , Hall took three points running for a convincing victory . |
| 12 | At the Conference of Foreign Ministers of the Non-Aligned in February 1981 Iran pressed for a purist conception of non-alignment , which involved a rejection o£ all forms of dependency on the superpowers , an emphasis on self-reliance , and a purge of those who did not live up to this ideal . |
| 13 | Under the helm of Sydney Newman , the weekly productions scored in the top ten ratings chart for a staggering thirty-two out of thirty-seven weeks between Autumn 1959 and Summer 1960 , with audiences averaging upwards of 12 million . |
| 14 | The biggest march was in Quimper on the Brittany coast , where up to 10,000 people gathered for a silent protest which remained calm until the late afternoon when a handful of people began throwing stones and tear gas bombs . |
| 15 | These ten programs contend for a limited number of real and symbolic resources . |
| 16 | Legislative authority is vested in a bicameral National Congress , comprising the Chamber of Deputies ( consisting of 180 members elected for a five-year term ) and the Senate ( consisting of 60 members elected for a five-year term along with the former Presidents of constitutional governments who have the status of life senators ) . |
| 17 | The right hon. Gentleman seems to be saying that , as we would expect of the British police , when a serious allegation is made , the chief constable of one force arranges for a senior officer of another to investigate the allegations , and everything about that investigation is laid bare for the public to see . |
| 18 | Cute twenties curls dressed for a high gloss effect from NEO Hair Design , Manchester |
| 19 | The 1973 Constitution provides for a National Assembly made up of the Cabinet and 30 members elected by popular vote . |
| 20 | The 1973 Constitution provides for a National Assembly made up of the Cabinet and 30 members elected by popular vote . |
| 21 | ‘ There is a subtle way in which we are never given quite the full authority , never quite the full credit , never quite the full respect , ’ said one woman working for a big firm . |
| 22 | A further revolution that has not yet taken hold widely in Japan is that of networking personal computers and word processors , and one American working for a large Japanese company in Tokyo complained to Reuter of hours spent every day hunting down paper documents written on dedicated word processors and then stuffing them laboriously into facsimile machines — when an efficient personal computer network could save all the effort . |
| 23 | Legislative authority is vested in a bicameral National Congress , comprising the Chamber of Deputies ( consisting of 180 members elected for a five-year term ) and the Senate ( consisting of 60 members elected for a five-year term along with the former Presidents of constitutional governments who have the status of life senators ) . |
| 24 | Life must go on , and eight records makes for a tight fit in a 40-minute programme . |
| 25 | All four look set for a bright future . |
| 26 | Surrounded by snow and dressed in concert clothes , the two musicians played for a German television crew and a small audience of artists while Serb snipers perched only 150 yards away at the front line took pot shots . |
| 27 | The survivor in the haulage business is deemed to be the licence holder if within two months he notifies the licensing authority of the event and within four months applies for a new O licence . |
| 28 | Rather than rent a building , the company decided to build its own offices and then spent 18 months to two years looking for a suitable area . |
| 29 | It all seems to be about using one or two people to stand for a whole sensibility , but thereby creating the impression that they were somehow alone in the field . |
| 30 | In the 1983 general election , nearly 8 million people voted for a political ticket ( Liberal/Social Democratic Party Alliance ) for which their parents could not previously have voted . |