Example sentences of "[n mass] [verb] for [det] " in BNC.

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1 The large amounts of data needed for such an analysis were obtained by means of a participant observation method which allowed the investigator to record speakers over a long period , returning to collect more data if specific gaps emerged in the course of the analysis ( cf. 3.1 ) .
2 However the data needed for this index , especially parity data on illegitimate births , are not routinely available , and its calculation demands a number of assumptions .
3 The bulk of the data used for this study were documentary in origin : letters from Polish peasants to relatives living in the United States , the archives of Polish newspapers , and the records and periodicals of Polish émigré organisations .
4 Much of the data used for these comparative analyses comes from surveys carried out in the community parts of Britain and France .
5 A machine-readable data set for each diet of elections , and for elections in each tier of local government over time , will be deposited with the ESRC Data Archive .
6 The series of papers which form the basic data set for this research ( the Rolfe papers , and Will 1985 ) , contained lists of theses arranged in a classified order .
7 There is also an organisation chart and you fill in the data form for this rather like a bullet chart in order to create a tree diagrams .
8 Shimazaki 's aircraft accounted for several ships in the harbour and in dry dock , one of the most spectacular explosions occurred at 0930hrs when fire reached the forward magazine of the destroyer Shaw .
9 The third principle is that ‘ personal data held for any purpose or purposes shall not be used or disclosed in any manner incompatible with that purpose or purposes ’ .
10 The fourth principle is that ‘ personal data held for any purpose or purposes shall be adequate , relevant and not excessive in relation to that purpose or those purposes ’ — and there is more to this than at first meets the eye .
11 The sixth principle , that ‘ personal data held for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes ’ , follows from its predecessors and places a heavy responsibility on data users to ensure that they regularly weed out data once it has served its purpose .
12 ‘ Personal data held for any purpose or purposes shall not be used or disclosed in any manner incompatible with that purpose or purposes ’
13 The need on the part of performance scoring models for ready access to detailed transaction and account balance trend data required for such a marketing strategy are already stored on the database , even if off-line , and in a form that makes them sufficiently easy to retrieve .
14 Were folk insured for that kind of thing then or
15 She comments that people seemed to feel that child care was an appropriate service for kin to perform for each other , but also that they should not be exploited .
16 Much of the next couple of hundred yards of river are fairly shallow and fast and would be good points to fish in the height of summer when fish look for these places for the extra oxygen available there .
17 Explaining that the parish precept had risen to 8 percent less than the 11–1/2 percent predicted for many other councils , David Clark , finance and general purposes chairman , was questioned by Col. John Dabson .
18 These statistics account for all discharges from all the Finnish hospitals after a stay in hospital for more than one day .
19 The business then bought a machine for £4,000 paying for this in cash , and at the same time bought a second machine on credit terms .
20 Not surprisingly , product sales account for most of the transaction applications , with sales of greeting cards , shoes , financial services , car accessories , furnishings and clothes being the among the most popular .
21 The skipper was preparing to take her out to a second rendezvous arranged for that night when the lookouts saw the grey canoe with a lone paddler .
22 Have a nice weekend , keep on taking the pills yeah well you know what it 's like y'know there 'll be so many people dying for this to fail well they do n't know what 's going on but but all they 'll get is one call interception which says I ca n't get through I ca n't get through , or I 've tried this number and it does n't work and blah you know usual thing but right I must keep on taking the Buffalo Bills .
23 It was also one of the main reasons for people returning for more training .
24 There 'll be a lot of people vying for those places as well .
25 After all , he was the chief scientist on board the boat , it was his $250,000 paying for this month-long expedition ( this research vessel cost $7000 a day to run ) , and he was getting a little nervous out there , all by himself , getting colder by the second and drifting away on a little piece of ice .
26 You , you go for a job and there 's two hundred people going for that one job .
27 He was a little surprised when she said no and even more so when she told him that he was wasting the doctor 's time — there were sick people waiting for these beds .
28 And as packing can take half the time of the total removal and even more in certain circumstances , most people opt for that .
29 We shall also reduce the number of hours required for people to qualify for that benefit .
30 People talk for all sorts of reasons — to express emotions , to ‘ let off steam ’ , to impress other people , to be the life and soul of the party to instruct and inform .
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