Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is suggestive that during his reign military uniform became for the first time permissible dress at the Habsburg court . |
| 2 | In the course of twenty-five years of persistent pioneering work , he was responsible for novel design features , such as the duplex condenser ( 1924 ) , objective changer ( 1926 ) , and cone condenser ( 1930 ) , the last allowing for the first time ultraviolet , dark-ground photographs of viruses . |
| 3 | allowing for the first time storage-type unvented hot water systems , which are common in North America and on the Continent ( see Chapter 4 ) ; unvented sealed-type central heating systems are already allowed |
| 4 | The ‘ Santa Specials ’ are the first to be arranged for the British Rail main line in the area for quite some time , and a first for the North Warwickshire Line between Hall Green and the Shakespearean town of Stratford-upon-Avon . |
| 5 | The hon. Gentleman asked about the new director general designate 's previous work . |
| 6 | The 1900s were also to see for the first time deaf women beginning to acquire their own identity through achievement by their own talent although not one as yet played any prominent part in deaf organisations which remained the preserve of the deaf male . |
| 7 | The official definition of long-term unemployment is more than twelve months without work , although employment training , which is designed for the long term unemployed , requires entrants to have been on the register for more than six months . |
| 8 | The Scottish Consultative Council on the Curriculum ( SCCC ) has agreed to development education materials being included for the 5–14 year old curriculum — the plan is to match C.Aid materials for that contribution . |
| 9 | The 1989 annual report of the WHO , published on Sept. 25 , 1989 , contained for the first time comprehensive estimates of the overall incidence of disease in the world . |
| 10 | Because the clinical signs appear during the prepatent period faecal egg counts are of little value in diagnosis which is best made on grazing history , clinical signs , and is possible , a post-mortem examination . |
| 11 | It stood a clear 10ft above the other trees , like a flag on top of a fortress , its mushroom structure always pressing for the extra light due to its extra height . |
| 12 | He headed for the Seventh Day Adventist College , New Bold in Berkshire . |
| 13 | For me — who had consciously to struggle against the imagaic maelstrom implicit in the idea of retroscendence — to have to deploy my powers in this pedestrian manner seemed nothing less than absurd . |
| 14 | But the idea that English prisoners have allowed themselves to be coopted into the Irish Republican political cause is a remarkably implausible one . |
| 15 | Letters of thanks are to be sent to those residents and organisations who helped with the national Spring Clean day , when areas of the town were cleared of rubbish . |
| 16 | It was in that frame of mind that I moved into the Olympic year indoor season , saying , as I had been doing for a long time , ‘ In ‘ 88 , I 'll graduate ! ’ |
| 17 | The soldiers carried rocket-launchers as well as rifles or machine-guns and behind them , spaced along the dual carriageway high above the port , were lines of tanks . |
| 18 | Their brains are delicately tuned packages of miniaturized electronic wizardry , programmed with the elaborate software necessary to decode a world of echoes in real time . |
| 19 | Light aircraft fly into the nearby airport full of commuters who make sophisticated value judgements on the place . |
| 20 | The convention is sustained , but subtly mocked , in Twelfth Night , where Viola , bearing the suit of Orsino , waits until Maria leaves before launching into the higher style appropriate to romance ( I.v.167ff . ) . |
| 21 | The regions of application have been amalgamated with the National Curriculum cross-curricular themes . |
| 22 | To my mind it is clear from the terms of the third paragraph of the Crown Prosecution Service 's letter that it is accepted that the order restricts them , in any prosecution which they decide to initiate , to utilising material already obtained or other material obtained independently of that disclosed in the High Court civil proceedings . |
| 23 | Along with deposits near Hawaii , this is the only deposit that lies within the proposed 200-mile exclusive economic zone of the US . |
| 24 | If you want to include iron losses ( occurring in the magnetic core due to the periodically change flux ) as well , you should better consult a book having a bigger section on transformers . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , in the restless whirl of Disney expansion that is itself something akin to a rollercoaster ride , the six Euro Disney hotels , 4500 cast members , golf course and 30 separate attractions are all on schedule for the opening in April and 11 million visitors are expected in the first year alone . |
| 26 | The prospects of the party improved somewhat with the adoption at the 1937 conference of an ‘ Immediate Programme ’ of nationalisation for a single term of office : this included all the major measures of the post-war Labour government except for iron and steel , which in any case was not to be fundamentally reorganised before the Labour government left office in 1951 . |
| 27 | He charged the half-mile to the narrow exit lane at the eastern end of the Bay , wedged between the point and the beach , but got trapped in the surging rip current that dragged him towards Coffin Corner , the shipwrecking rocks at the west end of the Bay . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , it was reported in the Middle East Economic Digest of Sept. 28 that the Local Government Minister , Ali Hasan al-Majid , a cousin of President Saddam Hussein and formerly chief of security with special responsibility for the Kurds ( reported on Aug. 20 as in control of Kuwait 's security and administration — see p. 37635 ) , was named governor of Kuwait . |
| 29 | French military estimates , reported in the Middle East Economic Digest of Jan. 31 , set the total number of Iraqis killed in the Gulf war at 50,000 . |
| 30 | With trading in the first quarter similar to that of the second half of last year , the company is continuing to exercise tight control of the business . |