Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] for the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though the Lions ' backs have the credentials and Winterbottom and Dean Richards have been in the heat of a Lions Test scrum , there are six forwards who will be experiencing a Lions Test for the first time . |
| 2 | Leonard , who plays more golf in the summer than bowls , partners Irish international senior skip and Lisnagarvey club mate Noel Graham in their bid to win the Irish pairs title for the first time since the brilliant Fisher and Ringland combination won it for the Lisburn club in 1970 . |
| 3 | Copies of the charter were being given out during the rush hour at Darlington but connections proved not to be the best with an hour wait for the next train south . |
| 4 | The net costs of Eagle Lodges appear for the first time in the income and expenditure account and are largely attributable to setting up costs as there was little income from occupancy during 1990 . |
| 5 | ICL HAILS VIKING — NEW SPARC MODELS SET FOR THE THIRD QUARTER , INTEL BOXES DUE IN JULY |
| 6 | Fittingly the local-born lad took the first spot kick which completed the first leg of what could see the city 's two clubs meet for the first time in the last four . |
| 7 | TORBREX Wanderers have done much to keep the Scottish Indoor League championship race open by beating fellow Dundonians Menzieshill for the first time in the league last month . |
| 8 | The arrivals and departures list for the next day should be typed and copies distributed to all departments . |
| 9 | History in the making at Barbados : West Indian and South African players and officials meet for the first time in a Test match . |
| 10 | Collections drop for the first time in a decade |
| 11 | A spokesman at IBM Corp 's East European headquarters in Vienna claimed that the company exceeded the internal sales targets set for the first quarter of 1993 , and succeeded in increasing its turnover in the region by around 30% when compared with the same period last year . |
| 12 | Gedge 's parents say the band live for the first time at Manchester 's salubrious Ritz Club . |
| 13 | Torrance , who has played in the last six Ryder Cup matches and badly wants to figure in the next at the Belfry in September , shot his 69 despite having a nose bleed for the first time in his life early in the morning , then again on the course . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , Northampton Town yesterday spent £70,000 — a record cash buy for the Third Division club — to buy the winger Bobby Barnes from Bournemouth . |
| 15 | One afternoon the following week , Mary was coming into the yard having been to hear the banns read for the last time , when she came upon a group of local women standing around gossiping about the wedding . |
| 16 | The introduction of bargaining and the capacity to negotiate collective agreements or ‘ convenios ’ , although still closely controlled , gave the company councils a genuine industrial relations function for the first time and encouraged the workers ' commissions ' strategy of working through the official system and putting forward candidates to company council elections . |
| 17 | Perhaps the most dramatic example of this is when people meet for the first time . |
| 18 | New Contemporary Show ‘ 92 , six newcomers exhibit for the first time ( until 23 Feb ) . |
| 19 | Chester-le-Street 's Lindsay Hardy , 15 , also won the girls race for the second year in succession , finishing 12th overall , and was surprised to beat Middlesbrough and Cleveland 's Kerry Matthew by over a minute and a half . |
| 20 | After being pegged at 4–4 following the first frame of the evening session , Hendry raised his game to collect the £40,000 first prize — and become Masters champion for the first time . |
| 21 | STEPHEN HENDRY was crowned the king of Wembley again last night as he won the Benson & Hedges Masters title for the fifth time . |
| 22 | STEPHEN HENDRY was crowned the king of Wembley again last night after winning the Benson & Hedges Masters title for the fifth time . |
| 23 | These results show for the first time to our knowledge , the interactions between calcium , phosphate , fatty acids , and bile acids along the intestine . |
| 24 | Doubt of this variety stems from a deficiency at the second level of understanding , the level at which Christian presuppositions enter for the first time . |
| 25 | Our findings reveal for the first time death rates of babies born before term who survive into late adult life , although duration of gestation was recorded for only half of the men . |
| 26 | Our findings demonstrate for the first time increased expression of ET-1 in the lungs of patients with CFA compared with the lungs of subjects without CFA . |
| 27 | DEC Mips-Ultrix , HP HP-UX , IBM AIX and Silicon Graphics Irix versions are due in January , with Solaris 2. x and DEC AXP-OSF/1 implementations set for the second quarter . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , folks , we may not have heard our favourite songbird sing for the last couple of weeks , but it 's certainly nice to know our very own Rory can still put on one hell of a floorshow ! ’ |
| 29 | PAKISTANI authorities have for the first time begun arresting farmers in the North West Frontier Province who have been found planting opium for next year 's harvest . |
| 30 | South African authorities have for the first time permitted Mr Nelson Mandela to talk by telephone with exiled leaders of the African National Congress from the prison where he is held near Cape Town . |