Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] for [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The defence thus utilized one side of the ambivalence — the love and high esteem felt for the father — to build a bulwark against the other — the hate and contempt of the father — in order to inhibit the aggressive egoism of males and make them all equally subject to a primal father-figure who for the first time now became fully internalized as a shared superego .
2 2 or 3 days at home in Oxfordshire is a luxury , even when he does get the chance to relax , he watches re-runs and readies himself for the next race .
3 In 1651 the Dutch republic forbade its diplomats to accept gifts from foreign governments ; and in 1692 regulations were issued in Sweden which for the first time specified the value of those to be given to foreign representatives on their departure .
4 Her heart sank as she remembered the phone call which for the first time began to make sense .
5 This year Farnborough also has a skate scene emerging from Farnborough itself for the first time since about 1981 .
6 Below me were Ribblehead and the viaduct , while to my right was Ingleborough which for the first time in days looked fresh and green instead of glowering and grey .
7 Shortly afterwards Metzinger published an article in the literary review Pan on the work of Picasso , Braque , Le Fauconnier and Delaunay in which he proclaimed a new type of painting which for the first time broke with hellenic traditions .
8 A consciousness of belonging to a coherent professional group was both expressed and strengthened by the appearance , from the mid-nineteenth century onwards , of guides and yearbooks which for the first time listed the diplomats and foreign office officials in the service of most of the European states .
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