Example sentences of "new [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1280 , for example , ‘ the metes and bounds of the New Forest from the first time that it was afforested ’ were said to extend from the Test westwards to the Avon , and from the Solent northwards to the Wiltshire county boundary . |
| 2 | The journey from New Mexico to the eastern seaboard took around 4,000 years ; its acceptance as a staple , almost a thousand years longer . |
| 3 | The singular style evolved from church singing in New England in the past century . |
| 4 | A BRITISH tourist shot dead in New Orleans on the first day of her holiday may have died because her boyfriend refused a mugger 's demand for money . |
| 5 | Of 35 teams in New Zealand for the first Raid , all but five were French . |
| 6 | The summer of 1984 was a glorious one , the West Indian team was one of their strongest and had just beaten Australia 3–0 ; the England team , with some of the top players banned after going to South Africa , was one of their most ordinary and had just lost series to Pakistan and New Zealand for the first time , and it was all rather one-sided . |
| 7 | In March 1992 I returned to New Zealand for the first time in over a dozen years , to sample again what light aviation there has to offer visitors . |
| 8 | Since Hick 's elevation to the Test team we 've seen England share the most successful series against West Indies in the last nine , win a series against New Zealand for the first time in four attempts , win a Test match against Pakistan for the first time in 10 years , and , for good measure , reach the World Cup final . |
| 9 | Two rare kakapo chicks have been hatched in captivity in New Zealand for the first time . |
| 10 | Also beaten was Glen Wilson , second string for New Zealand at the last World Team Championship . |
| 11 | Patting the chair beside him , he told Daisy , ‘ If Perdita gets the scholarship , Sukey and I may well be going out to New Zealand at the same time to buy some ponies , so we can keep an eye on her . ’ |
| 12 | Tight forwards have been Jacques Fouroux 's obsession since France were shattered by New Zealand in the 1987 World Cup final . |
| 13 | Alan Ball admitted his men had it all to do after his men crashed to South Africa , the Australian wicket went for a duck as a defending champion slumped said we are going to have to do it the hard way now , we just did n't play very , we did n't get it together against New Zealand in the first match and today we were never in the picture , our brothers never really had a chance of any attempt of a hundred and seventy , but full credit to South Africa they are a rate , a better to side |
| 14 | OPENER Kevin Arnott hit 68 to lead a Zimbabwe fightback against New Zealand in the second Test in Harare . |
| 15 | The anecdotes themselves range from bizarre nostalgic gems , such as cricket writer J.L. Carr 's memory of a pre-war Yorkshire cinema where the manager would roam the aisles cracking a whip , to the riotously surreal , as with Alyson Stoneman-Hunter 's account of watching Westerns in New Zealand in the enthusiastic company of whooping Maori cowboys . |
| 16 | Los Angeles is set to take over from New York as the busiest port in the world . |
| 17 | On Oct. 8 Foreign Minister Nguyen Manh Cam , in New York for the 47th session of the UN General Assembly [ see p. 39120 ] , held talks with US Defence Secretary Dick Cheney and acting Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger . |
| 18 | THE St Petersburg National Opera ( the ‘ National ’ ) , Chaliapin 's company , is in New York for the first time . |
| 19 | The Kitchens are in New York for the first time , because last August , A&M America heard their just-completed second album and bought it on the spot . |
| 20 | The ride down Northern Boulevard from La Guardia airport to the Queensboro bridge may not be the best way to see New York for the first time although Maxim caught glimpses of its towers jolting towards them over the grey horizon . |
| 21 | But does anybody see New York for the first time these days ? |
| 22 | They may feel New York for the first time because its fast-dealing busyness is something the screen does n't catch and may smell it for the first time if they come in high summer but one of the great first sights of the world is gone for ever . |
| 23 | Speaking at a press conference at the UN in New York on the same day , Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Petrovsky gave the Soviet Union 's first public disclosure of its total foreign troop strength , putting the figure at 627,000 . |
| 24 | Once we were in New York at the same time and stayed in separate hotels . |
| 25 | Based on the novel by Hubert Selby Jr ( Subject of a celebrated prosecution in 1967 under the Obscene Publications Act ) , LAST EXIT is a tough , often harrowing film about life in a rough working class district of New York during the Korean War . |
| 26 | James Dean had just arrived there for his first major role , having been brought from New York by the famed director Elia Kazan to star in East of Eden . |
| 27 | MOLLY PICON , the diminutive Jewish-American actress who has died at Lancaster , Pennsylvania , aged 93 , was the leading exponent of Yiddish drama during its golden age in New York in the early part of the century ; an outstanding performer on the international variety stage between the World Wars ; and a notable legitimate player on Broadway and in London in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 28 | Chicago-born Mainbocher had been the first American to open a couture house in Paris — the trousseau and wedding dress of Wallis Simpson were celebrated triumphs — and , based in New York from the early war years , remained the chosen couturier of the stars of American society and stage . |