Example sentences of "[verb] for the [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Such is the force of tradition that when the newly instituted Parliament of Northern Ireland met for the first time in 1921 , its first act was to claim these ‘ undoubted and ancient privileges ’ . |
| 2 | Earlier , the new Conflict Prevention Centre of the CSCE met for the first time in Vienna on July 1-2 , as requested by Austria , and called for an immediate ceasefire and the return of the JNA to barracks , but failed to reach the necessary unanimity on sending a CSCE observer mission . |
| 3 | Khrushchev , who was preoccupied with trying to promote a policy of peaceful coexistence with the United States ( Khrushchev and Eisenhower met at Camp David in September 1959 ) whilst at the same time seeking to contain the emerging Sino-Soviet rift , had little thought to spare for the bearded revolutionaries in far-off Cuba . |
| 4 | We were to wait for the oyster-fishing season in the Bay of Cancale without giving the boats notice and stop them as they sailed past Barfleur Head … |
| 5 | Mr Chirac seems to want to wait for the presidential election in 1995 . |
| 6 | These should more than compensate for the natural decline in other more mature fields . |
| 7 | The European Commission , which is responsible for formulating the proposal in line with the views of the council of ministers , was criticized for the repeated delays in the adoption of the third Framework programme and hopes to stick to the intricate timetable for approval of the new programme , which must be accepted at three levels . |
| 8 | Filled for the first time in twenty years , Lake Eyre became a rich source of food , attracting tens of thousands of birds whose closest usual breeding area is five hundred miles to the south . |
| 9 | CHRISTO VAN RENSBURG , one of the world 's leading doubles players , went on court at the Albert Hall yesterday believing he would be competing for the last time in the official season-ending doubles championship . |
| 10 | CHRISTO VAN RENSBURG , one of the world 's leading doubles players , went on court at the Albert Hall yesterday believing he would be competing for the last time in the official season-ending doubles championship . |
| 11 | Eight months earlier he made an abortive attempt for the title , then held by the Frenchman Franck Nicotra , only to be stopped for the first time in his professional career . |
| 12 | Jasbir Singh was stopped for the second time in two days driving his blue Ford Escort van . |
| 13 | I encountered an old lady of a more awkward sort while canvassing for the Tory candidate in Crosby — a by-election subsequently won for the SDP by Shirley Williams . |
| 14 | Let's , let's just put it here , A minus B times A minus B. Now it 's tempting to go for the easier ones in it as you did , so we 'll do the A squared , okay that 's no problem . |
| 15 | The engineering brief was to achieve a 10 per cent gain in performance over the already rapid Turbo R , implying a top speed target of well over 150mph and 0–60mph acceleration in just over six seconds — a tough task , even allowing for the aerodynamic gains in the switch to the coupe shape , in a vehicle weighing at least two-and-a-half tons . |
| 16 | Taylor said : ‘ Even allowing for the big advances in modern medicine , I 've always been a big believer in waiting for an operation to be complete before making any assessment . |
| 17 | Moreover , even today allowing for the enormous growth in monopoly , or oligopoly , in the advanced capitalist countries , the national economies have not yet reached that condition of ‘ rationality ’ or planning in production that Bukharin assumed had been already achieved . |
| 18 | For many years I consulted for the American GE in Schenectady and the thing that struck me there was the way that when they wanted to attack a particular area they could mount an army of people on it , all of whom were pretty good . ’ |
| 19 | The prizewinner was presented with a cup , which had been given for the first time in 1987 . |
| 20 | In the early numbers there are such diverse items as an account of a tea given for the Baptist children in Port Ellen and the news that Lord Rosebery had succeeded Mr Gladstone as Prime Minister . |
| 21 | In the early numbers there are such diverse items as an account of a tea given for the Baptist children in Port Ellen and the news that Lord Rosebery had succeeded Mr Gladstone as Prime Minister . |
| 22 | These data are given for the post-war period in Figure 2.1 . |
| 23 | The total number of accidents and the calculated average traffic flow at a junction are given for the 40 junctions in Table 3.2 . |
| 24 | The plates were developed for the first migration in a solvent saturated chamber consisting of chloroform/methanol/ammonium hydrate/water 184:105:7.5:7.5 vol and then dried in cold air . |
| 25 | Together with previous data showing a similar location for the small molecule binding sites in adrenergic receptors , these results suggest that there is a general transmembrane binding site for small molecules in G-protein-coupled receptors , and that non-peptide antagonists can be developed for the analogous domain in other peptide receptors . |
| 26 | The case against Therese Dunne ( 42 ) , a buyer with Dunnes Stores , was halted for the second time in three months yesterday because of the alleged interference . |
| 27 | It was reburied for the last time in 1973 after the number of visitors was found to be too high for the Cotswold village of Woodchester to cope with . |
| 28 | It can link HLCA payments ( including for the first time in the UK , for dairy cows ) to agreed stocking levels on a hectarage ( not headage ) basis . |
| 29 | When Eva had gone and I lay for the first time in the same house as Charlie and Eva and my father , I thought about the difference between the interesting people and the nice people . |
| 30 | Though phrasing is sympathetic , and Masur allows a natural easing for the third theme in the first movement , this is not among warmer readings of this much recorded work . |