Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] for the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The day began at 10 am for rehearsals for the next production but if this proved unsuccessful , it was taken off and the new production rushed on . |
| 2 | Casting around for precedents for the next move forward , he seized on Michelet 's improvisatory style , which he said put him in mind of the rough sketches of a painter . |
| 3 | Under a new law , proposed during the fifth session of the eighth National Assembly ( which convened in Hanoi on June 20-30 , 1989 ) , non-CPV members were allowed to stand as candidates for the first time . |
| 4 | Both Major and Hurd were then immediately nominated as candidates for the second round , while Heseltine was also renominated . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , IBM Corp shares plunged $5.50 to $72.50 on the day the company reported a stunning net loss after charges for the third quarter of $2,778m last week and scepticism rose over the prompt promise in the analysts ' call after the announcement that the dividend is safe . |
| 6 | The first meeting will be an opportunity for those interested in teacher research to meet , to formally establish the group and create a programme of activities for the next year . |
| 7 | Of birds for the first time ever heard , |
| 8 | In December 1989 the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) , following the visit of an IMF delegation , decided to delay disbursement of funds for the second phase of the structural adjustment programme agreed with Equatorial Guinea in December 1988 [ see p. 36923 ] . |
| 9 | and at the end of the national hunt racing season … celebrations for Gloucestershire 's top stables … trainer David Nicholson reached a century of winners for the first time and champion jockey Richard Dunwoody finished with 173 … a record year for them both |
| 10 | Resolved that this meeting concurs in Apinion [ sic ] with the said Committee — that it will be necessary to carry on the Business of this Institution as perfectly as possible , that there should be two Professors appointed & that as soon as the proposed plan for the College is executed , which , from the Encouragement already given , 't is hoped will be speedily accomplished — The members will avail themselves of the Offer made by the Committee and refer the Merits of Candidates for the second professorship to their investigation . |
| 11 | The panel of judges for the first award included Eleanor Bron , the actress and writer ; Penelope Lively , the novelist and a past winner of the Booker Prize ; and John Mortimer , QC , the novelist and playwright and chairman of the Royal Society of Literature . |
| 12 | She also looked great — out of dungarees for the first time and into a becomingly simple black dress . |
| 13 | There was a certain rapprochement though , as Mary came down with her things in the back-pack Rufus had lent her and wearing jeans and a pair of sandals for the first time for days . |
| 14 | The seminars , which will be held in Dundee and Glasgow , will focus on the second phase of general SVQs , though they may also include workshops for centres wanting to pilot the first batch of awards for the first time . |
| 15 | Given an allowable candidate word which is known to be able to start a compound or commonly used phrase , if the next part of the compound occurs in the list of alternatives for the next word position ( and so on until the end of the compound ) , then it is likely that the alternatives that make the compound are the correct choices . |
| 16 | The facts behind the selection of poems for the first volume may prove elusive . |
| 17 | He was appointed to the state 's Superior Court in 1978 , to its Supreme Court in 1983 , and to the federal Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in 1990 . |
| 18 | The 1990 decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Damodar Bulk Carriers Ltd. v. People 's Insurance Company of China makes the effect of this distinction eminently clear . |
| 19 | In March 1985 , the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit addressed these issues in Re Anschuetz & Co . |
| 20 | The Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit , reconsidering Re Anschuetz on remand from the Supreme Court in the light of Aérospatiale , declined to re-interpret the Aérospatiale decision as requiring first resort to the Convention or as sanctioning the use of Blackmun J. 's tripartite analysis . |
| 21 | The US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit on Sept. 22 struck down a Louisiana statute which prohibited abortion in most instances and which provided draconian penalties for doctors who performed illegal abortions . |
| 22 | On July 8 the Russian President Boris Yeltsin had announced at a press conference in Munich after talks with leaders of the Group of Seven ( G-7 ) industrialized countries [ see p. 38990 ] that Russia had made a political decision to withdraw an estimated 130,000 troops from the Baltic states , and that an agreement " on a schedule for the withdrawal of troops for the second half of this year and for 1993 " would be signed " soon " . |
| 23 | Their most pressing concern was the seven-year-old Iran-Iraq war , and the Palestine question was pushed to the bottom of the list of priorities for the first time in the history of the Arab League . |
| 24 | She sobs loudly in his arms , relieved of the company of strangers for the first time . |
| 25 | But it wo n't be that much because I 've been out of things for the last year and before that I had shut my eyes anyway . |
| 26 | Under the Government 's fund-holding initiative , doctors have control over their own spending on behalf of patients for the first time . |
| 27 | You 'll need to buy £20 worth of materials for the second project . |
| 28 | The colonisation of new land , and its demarcation into private estates , created thousands of miles of boundaries for the first time . |
| 29 | He was able to provide information on age , sex , and growth of whales for the first time without killing , touching , marking , or molesting a single animal . |
| 30 | The Reform Act of 1832 laid the foundations of electoral democracy by tidying up the system — for instance , getting rid of ‘ rotten boroughs ’ , small or almost non-existent places that could return MPs — and setting up a register of voters for the first time . |