Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [verb] for [adj] hour " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is set to tackle Mr Lamont 's criticisms head on and reject his claim that policies are presented for 36 hours of good publicity . |
| 2 | He is set to tackle Mr Lamont 's criticisms head on and reject his claim that policies are presented for 36 hours of good publicity . |
| 3 | Both carriageways were closed for eight hours causing huge tailbacks . |
| 4 | Before the study , which was always performed in the morning , all subjects were starved for eight hours , avoided all medicines known to affect the gastrointestinal tract for at least 12 hours , and refrained from smoking for at least 24 hours . |
| 5 | Animals were fasted for 15 hours before the operation . |
| 6 | The animals were fasted for 24 hours and then their abdomen was opened and the stomach exposed under light ether anaesthesia . |
| 7 | Before operation , the rats were fasted for 18 hours with free access to water and then anaesthetised with pentobarbital ( 60 mg/kg , intraperitoneally ) . |
| 8 | Plates were incubated for one hour at room temperature and then overnight at 4°C . |
| 9 | To find out whether cytokine treatment would modulate ICAM-1 expression in HT-29 and CaCo-2 cells , each of the cell lines was incubated for 24 hours in the absence or presence of IFN-γ ( 100 U/ml ) , IL-1Β ( 100 U/ml ) , or TNF-α ( 10 ng/ ml ) . |
| 10 | LONDON was plunged into chaos last night when two of its busiest rail stations were closed for three hours by a bomb scare . |
| 11 | Complete urine collections were made for 5 hours ( 8 am-1 pm ) into a bottle containing 1 ml thiomersal ( 10% w/v ) as a preservative for L-rhamnose . |
| 12 | Biotinylated anti-mouse IgG and Streptavidin were applied for three hours or 30 minutes , respectively , whereas the subclass specific goat anti-mouse IgG conjugates were applied for 12 hours . |
| 13 | Their bodies were left for several hours to serve as an example of the fate awaiting people who oppose the regime . |
| 14 | The vials were cultured for two hours at 37°C in a shaking water bath ( Grant Instruments , Cambridge , UK ) set at 120 oscillations per minute . |
| 15 | A Dublin drinker As two Gulf newspapers were banned for 24 hours for advertising a Beaujolais wine festival , the United Arab Emirates used bulldozers to crush 9,000 bottles of confiscated whisky and 1,500 cans of beer into the desert sands . |
| 16 | They state that ‘ A reasonable target [ for CPE ] can be expressed as an average of 150 points year on year — with three points being recorded for each hour of structured CPE and one point for each hour of unstructured activity … members for whom CPE is compulsory should aim to achieve at least 40% of their CPE … through structured activities … |
| 17 | A reasonable target can be expressed as an average of 150 points year on year — with three points being recorded for each hour of structured CPE and one point for each hour of unstructured activity . |
| 18 | The two men were held for several hours by more than 100 students who occupied the Ministry of Education in protest at the non-payments of grants and university registration procedures . |
| 19 | Rehydrated tissue sections were incubated for one hour at room temperature with each of the monoclonal antibodies at the following dilutions : anti-cytochrome P450 1A , 1/20 dilution in TBS of a 50% ammonium sulphate precipitate of hybridoma culture supernatant , and anti-cytochrome P450 3A as undiluted hybridoma culture supernatant . |
| 20 | All public services were suspended for four hours at the beginning of each shift . |
| 21 | Collected samples were pooled for each hour . |
| 22 | A Metropolitan Police study conducted during a three-month period in 1979 found that 0.4 per cent of detainees were held for seventy-two hours or more . |
| 23 | Cells were left for 18-36 hours post-transfection to allow growth to resume , then diluted and the antibiotic phleomycin ( Cayla , France ) added , usually at a concentration of 1.0 µg ml -1 ( the ble gene confers resistance to the bleomycin family of antibiotics , with phleomycin the most effective against eukaryotic cells ( 17 ) ) . |
| 24 | The cells were incubated for 14 hours in a humidified atmosphere with 5% CO 2 in air at 37°C . |
| 25 | Equivalent numbers of HT-29 cells were incubated for 48 hours with 3 mM DNJ or DMJ or left untreated . |