Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1972 Act provided for the principal councils ( i.e. the county councils and district councils ) to have a number of major functions . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The party ran only 148 candidates , of whom 136 were elected , a larger proportion than in recent elections , but far short of the 257 seats required for an overall majority in the 512-member House of Representatives . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | In 1872 Britain , caught up in the complacency of overseas empire , had only 12 students reading for the Natural Sciences Tripos at Cambridge , while Germany already had 11 technical universities . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He spent almost 10 years looking for a Scottish hotel near a large population centre , but found nowhere suitable . |
| 8 | PERU : Reports of ‘ disappearances ’ and extrajudicial executions have continued despite President Fujimori 's 1991 directive calling for the Armed Services and National Police to respect human rights . |
| 9 | He arrives in Massillon , Ohio , to discover the entire town of 30,000 people preparing for the big football game the next day . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The following day , on August 1st , the South African Under-15 schoolboys arrive for a four-week tour of England . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Whereas a comprehensive secondary school might offer some 30 subjects for all its pupils , and about a dozen subjects account for the great majority of A levels , the curriculum explodes in higher education , part of a post-school explosion even greater when one takes into account the vast number of technical and vocational courses that exist in non-advanced further education . |
| 15 | However , because they had been unemployed , they had not earned enough money in the previous three years to qualify for the mature student allowance , and so it was denied to them . |
| 16 | Some farmers were told that they could either settle at once for 60 per cent of what was due to them , or wait three years to fight for the full amount . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The three squads making for the northern caisson , including Bob Burtenshaw 's men who were not needed at the southern caisson , were less fortunate . |
| 19 | Then , leading 12-4 , Hall took three points running for a convincing victory . |
| 20 | Eventually , leading 12-4 , Hall took three points running for a convincing victory . |
| 21 | By a summons dated 16 January 1992 solicitors acting for the interim government of the Republic of Somalia applied , pursuant to R.S.C. , Ord. 15 , r. 6(2) , for the Republic of Somalia to be joined as plaintiff in substitution for Aleko Maritime Co . |
| 22 | Although the largest of the 11 suits called for the immediate repayment of $1,200 million , bankers were reported on March 13 to be viewing the move as a defensive and not as a provocative act . |
| 23 | It takes about 18 months to qualify for the short-term benefits like unemployment and sickness benefit . |
| 24 | His third round of 67 left them all for dead , and with 11 holes to go for the Open he was ten shots ahead of the field . |
| 25 | Hereford 's 5 month wait for an away win in the league came to an end at Spotland . |
| 26 | The British team of eighty-five athletes left for the European Championships in Stuttgart in optimistic mood . |
| 27 | When 20,000 people gathered for an illegal festival at Castlemorton Common in Worcestershire last May , they brought misery to thousands living nearby . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | But ten minutes sufficed for the blazing gun-fight , and for the affecting death scene with soaring strings . |
| 30 | 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 . |