Example sentences of "[num] [adj] [noun pl] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There they were in 1934 hatching plans for invading Russia but allowing one of their army chiefs — ‘ a typical monocled , duel-scarred , square-headed general of the High Command ’ — to reveal the lot to an RAF veteran over lunch at a plush Berlin restaurant . |
| 2 | One of the six proposed tests for confirming brain-stem death is that ‘ No respiratory movements occur when the patient is disconnected from the mechanical ventilator for long enough to ensure that the arterial carbon dioxide tension rises above the threshold for stimulating respiration . ’ |
| 3 | So we have three possible points for defining the beginning of the Edwardian Era . |
| 4 | Breitenstein ( 1980 : 193 ) gives three different senses for have in its use with the bare infinitive : ( a ) I 'll have him clear up this mess ( an instruction ) ( b ) I wo n't have you say that ( a strong wish ) ( c ) I never had such a thing happen to me ( an experience ) |
| 5 | It is now clear that the courts have developed three different tests for determining the question of reasonableness . |
| 6 | There are three standard methods for representing signed numbers , as shown in Figure 2.1 . |
| 7 | SINCE Barclays Bank has just won an award for being model employers despite laying off hundreds of workers , I suppose the Government deserves three gold medals for allowing Cammell Laird to close . |
| 8 | From our discussions we understand that in reviewing the European market you have three major criteria for selecting companies and organisations with which you would choose to work together , namely : |
| 9 | Logically there are three alternative objectives for controlling traffic in any specific zone . |
| 10 | There are at least three good reasons for choosing to study a subject at college : |
| 11 | There are probably three good reasons for playing a stroke with two hands on the racket : |
| 12 | Since then financial markets concluded they have three good reasons for betting on a devaluation of the pound against the DM . |
| 13 | There are three main reasons for taking care of an elderly person . |
| 14 | In inspection there are basically three main reasons for inspecting work : |
| 15 | One study , based on sixty-six Third World firms ( and the evidence from other studies ) , found three main reasons for setting up joint ventures : host-government pressure , the need for the partner 's skills and the need for other attributes or assets . |
| 16 | The next witnesses , on behalf of the CEGB , said that there were three main reasons for going for a PWR . |
| 17 | There are three main reasons for retaining records : organisational needs , fulfilment of statutory requirements , and for the provision of evidence in case of dispute . |
| 18 | Other than luck — winning the football pools or coming into a legacy — there are three main possibilities for providing you with extra money : your home , work and investment skill . |
| 19 | The three main outlets for reselling are auctions , specialist shops , private individuals or dealers . |
| 20 | she 's won the trophy and ninety nine thousand odd pounds for winning the race , so she 's , careful of that , there 's all the rest there |
| 21 | There are 5 broad reasons for buying options : |
| 22 | The final chapter describes 57 actual procedures for preparing and using various oxidation reagents , and the emphasis is very much on the synthetic usefulness of the reactions rather than on their mechanisms . |
| 23 | The International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) , in a report on Jan. 17 summarizing the activities of the ninth UN nuclear inspection team which visited Iraq on Jan. 12-14 , said that Iraq had acquired from Germany large quantities of components used to produce several thousand high-speed centrifuges for enriching weapons-grade uranium . |
| 24 | These five different strategies for analysing liberal democratic policies are not all mutually inconsistent . |
| 25 | 5.2.4 Suggested strategies for minimizing linear dislocation |
| 26 | 1102 Operational procedures for selling |
| 27 | Many will be familiar with Graham Gibbs ' Twenty Terrible Reasons for Lecturing or Donald Bligh 's What 's the Use of Lectures ? ( see Suggestions for further reading at the end of this chapter ) and most will have been intellectually persuaded that they ought to give fewer , better lectures and devote their remaining teaching energies to small-group learning — i.e. tutorials and seminars . |
| 28 | If this proves to be the true picture then we have two possible strategies for selecting a suitable exposure automatically and then carrying out measurements . |
| 29 | Early discussions centred on two possible devices for solving the basic problem of measuring plant growth non-intrusively . |
| 30 | There are two possible explanations for reproducing the harpsichord part of the Concerts without the two parts for accompanying instruments ( in the original they were engraved in score ) . |