Example sentences of "[v-ing] [n mass] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In El Salvador , US grants are building barracks for demobilised FMLN guerrillas ; in Nicaragua , General Humberto Ortega , brother of the Sandinista ex-president , Daniel , recently aroused a storm by pinning the Sandinistas ' highest military medal on the chest of the US military attacheé . |
| 2 | Using data for the period 1954–74 , Khalil and Hanna ( 1984 ) have demonstrated that since the scheme was initiated the dissolved salt content of the Nile at the head of the delta has increased by 29 per cent . |
| 3 | Using data for the Palaeozoic and Tertiary coals , it is found that the maximum rate of hydrocarbon generation for both coals occurs at a vitrinite reflectance of about 1% ( Figs. 10 and 11 ) . |
| 4 | Phillips analysed the relationship between the annual rate of change of money wage rates ( or the rate of wage inflation ) and the annual average unemployment percentage , using data for the UK from 1861 to 1957 . |
| 5 | Figure 12.2 illustrates a Phillips relationship using data for the UK between 1953 and 1967 . |
| 6 | Using data for concurrent five-minute periods , he found that for 14 , 15 , 16 and the morning of 19 October , there was a highly significant positive relationship between the volume of index arbitrage and the size of the mispricing . |
| 7 | Using data for the near and next-near futures contracts for the period from July 1984 to September 1986 , they found clear support that futures prices lead spot prices by one minute . |
| 8 | the variance of the natural logarithm of the daily price relatives computed using data for a number of days , that is , ( Anderson , 1985 ; Barnhill , Jordan and Seale , 1987 ; Cornell , 1981 ; Kenyon , Kling , Jordan , Seale and McCabe , 1987 ; Milonas , 1986b ) ; |
| 9 | Wiggins ( 1992 ) studied the performance of modified versions of the Parkinson and Garman and Klass estimators using data for S&P500 futures from 1982 to 1989 . |
| 10 | Using data for each of the individual futures contracts , Park and Sears used regression ( allowing for autocorrelation ) to fit the equation where V is the implicit variance and M : is the number of days to delivery . |
| 11 | These closures have to be seen in the context of changes in the number of children of primary school age ; this is illustrated in Figure 5.7 , using data for England . |
| 12 | These closures have to be seen in the context of changes in the number of children of secondary school age ; this is illustrated in Figure 5.11 , using data for England . |
| 13 | This is illustrated in Figure 5.12 , again using data for England . |
| 14 | Using data for a selection of metropolitan regions , the models will be tested for feasibility , accuracy and sensitivity . |
| 15 | Figure 4.11 ( cont. ) ( c ) As Figure 4.11(b) using data for Gross National Product . |
| 16 | The technique can be illustrated using data for polyisobutylene at several temperatures . |
| 17 | In order to avoid bias , we did two different meta-analyses , one using data for all patients in the trial , a second using data for the UK patients . |
| 18 | In order to avoid bias , we did two different meta-analyses , one using data for all patients in the trial , a second using data for the UK patients . |
| 19 | He was gathering data for a book about world metro systems , a task on which he had been engaged for years . |
| 20 | Dredging data for ‘ significant ’ p values fits targets to holes . |
| 21 | After pledging £20,000 for wheelchair races , the region 's support increased to £95,000 after a substantial shortfall in the commercial sponsorship which now appears certain to be repeated this year unless additional major supporters can be found . |
| 22 | AUSTRALIAN Mutual Provident , the Australian insurance company bidding £1.1bn for Pearl Group , yesterday reiterated that its 605p per share cash offer was generous and fully valued the company . |
| 23 | John and Jenny have been keeping fish for nearly six years . |
| 24 | Old Fishfinger has been keeping fish for more than ninety years . |
| 25 | He claims to have been keeping fish for more than ninety years — and in some cases as little as ninety minutes . |
| 26 | A farmer who 's been banned from keeping livestock for fifteen years has denied breaking the court order . |
| 27 | Last year after a catalogue of neglect was uncovered on his Buckinghamshire farm he was banned from keeping livestock for fifteen years . |
| 28 | He says , ‘ My mind was much to the place as soon as it was described to me , because it was a full congregation … an ignorant , rude and revelling people for the greater part , who had need of preaching , and yet had among them a small company of converts , who were humble , godly and of good conversations , and not much hated by the rest , and therefore fitter to assist their teacher ; but above all , because they hardly ever had any lively , serious preaching among them . |
| 29 | YJ Lovell , which is currently bidding £137million for fellow builder Higgs & Hill says it is too soon to comment on current trading but its profits for the year to September 30 , rose from £24.4million to £33.3million . |
| 30 | YJ Lovell , which is currently bidding £137million for fellow builder Higgs & Hill says it is too soon to comment on current trading but its profits for the year to September 30 , rose from £24.4million to £33.3million . |