Example sentences of "[that] [noun pl] [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And remember that times given for stages in guidebooks and on mountain path signposts are estimates for typical , more lightly equipped walkers . |
| 2 | Given the fact that schools selected for a Minor award were being encouraged to develop existing good practice , it is , perhaps , surprising that the formation of a permanent library committee , as in the case of the Major Project , was not made a prerequisite for their participation . |
| 3 | It seems logical to me that funds earmarked for those who die or can not keep premiums up , could well be used to swell terminal bonus pay-outs for others . |
| 4 | The meeting called for the immediate demobilisation of the contras and urged that funds approved for the Nicaraguan rebels be channelled through a commission they had established earlier . |
| 5 | ‘ Spinal Injuries in U.S. Rugby : 1970–90 ’ , was that many more catastrophic scrum injuries come from ‘ colliding ’ scrums ( 57 per cent ) than collapsed scrums ( 26 per cent ) , and that hookers accounted for 81 per cent of scrummaging injuries . |
| 6 | This means that homes sold for between £30,000 and £60,000 will no longer be liable for a tax levy of 1pc on the purchase price — a saving of up to £600 . |
| 7 | Last night Doisneau 's lawyer Julien Hay said he had proof that models posed for the picture . |
| 8 | The Mirror revealed last week that tax-payers paid for a luxury £3,000 bath installed in Diana 's private apartments at Kensington Palace . |
| 9 | A less-technical example would be the problems that comets posed for the ordered and full Aristotelian cosmos of interconnected crystalline spheres . |
| 10 | To forward their shared aims — see front page — Microsoft Corp will move its own Windows applications , starting with Excel , to NT-on-Alpha , and the twosome will ensure that applications written for NT will recompile for Alpha as well as Intel and MIPS platforms . |
| 11 | I t was a clasp knife , the sort that fishermen used for gutting fish . |
| 12 | By three to five years after surgery the actuarial survival rate exceeded that of a control population.This enhanced survival may reflect the fact that patients referred for surgery were highly selected , and an important limitation of these data is that the selection criteria were not explicit . |
| 13 | Both objectives require the application of higher level knowledge to identify inconsistencies at individual levels , so it is possible that techniques developed for recognition applications could contribute to the development of text understanding systems . |
| 14 | They also fear that exemptions granted for substances produced in small quantities could result in health and environmental risks . |
| 15 | It used to be the case that games written for an 8086 processor were unplayable on a 286 machine , so developers included special code in their programs which would slow the game down to make sure that , as far as possible , the game played at the same speed on every class of machine . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , keep in mind that results derived for stationary or uniformly moving bodies will not necessarily apply when the body is accelerated . |
| 17 | And , although Folly stared at the slip of pasteboard with the kind of intensity that fortune-tellers reserved for Tarot cards , she did n't know exactly what he had in mind … |
| 18 | Of greater moment , it was to precious substances that men turned for currency , since by definition these possessed the prime quality of acceptability . |
| 19 | Mrs J. Ramsay MacDonald believed that while a prohibition on married women 's work would cause distress in the short term , in the long run it would ensure that men provided for their families . |
| 20 | It was neither the sensible shopping-basket that men bought for their wives , nor the flashy jobs rich men bought for their mistresses . |
| 21 | Ernest Kombo , speaker of the transitional legislature , the Higher Council of the Republic ( CSR ) , warned on Sept. 14 , two days before the opening of the CSR 's session , that elections planned for the first half of 1992 might be postponed because a census of the electorate scheduled for mid-September had yet to take place . |
| 22 | The two sides also agreed that elections scheduled for the second half of September 1992 would be conducted on a basis of proportional representation and that the post-election regime would be " semi-presidential " , with the president serving a five-year mandate , renewable for three terms . |
| 23 | HOPES of an early start on a planned museum have been dashed with news that premises earmarked for the project will not be released before April . |
| 24 | The result was that ministers called for a radical reform in the OECD countries ' approach to economic activities , " to help ensure that the basic life support systems of Planet Earth are not endangered . " |
| 25 | The effect of the committee 's pronouncement is that documents prepared for the client and paid for by him ( drafts , deeds and documents , etc ) belong to the client . |
| 26 | Government advisers said the public element of the offer was four times subscribed , ensuring that shares allocated for foreign investors were ‘ clawed back ’ for private applicants , who will now be allocated virtually 30 per cent of the entire sale . |
| 27 | As the total number of filled vacancies for all ages was 652,306 , this means that juveniles accounted for about 20% of all those finding employment through the exchanges . |
| 28 | It simply can not be assumed that samples selected for their distinctiveness on one variable will vary randomly on others . |