Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] for [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | King Fahd of Saudi Arabia visited Baghdad at the end of March for the first visit by a Saudi monarch since Iraq 's Baathist revolution of 1968 . |
| 2 | In each of the last four games there 's been speculation that Lou Macari was taking charge of Stoke for the last time . |
| 3 | And yesterday it emerged that Britain 's inflation rate of 4.1pc had fallen below that of Germany for the first time in 25 years . |
| 4 | Butter is in the supermarkets of Timisoara for the first time since March last year . |
| 5 | Benazir Bhutto has been sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan for the second time after a decisive victory in the country 's parliament over her greatest rival , the Muslim League leader , Nawa Shariff . |
| 6 | LAST autumn , the Bank was back on television in most of Scotland for the first time in more than two years with a campaign of three commercials . |
| 7 | Here he 'd smelt the air of England for the first time , the crisp October air ; here he 'd fed first , drunk first ; first had cause for laughter , and later , for tears . |
| 8 | After all , the Jumbo , a handsome and imposing articulated unit designed by architect , engineer and critic Klaus Giovanni Koenig , will be seen on the streets of Milan for the next half-century . |
| 9 | CHINA : Amnesty International was publicly recognised by a senior government official in the People 's Republic of China for the first time last year , in connection with the commutation of the death sentence of Lobsang Tenzin , a Tibetan student accused of the murder of a Chinese policeman . |
| 10 | Making sense of God for a second time |
| 11 | John , to get to the point , we 've had a bus in Portsmouth plastered with G M B slo slogans , a talking point of Portsmouth for the last fortnight . |
| 12 | Hassan Gouled Aptidon was re-elected President of Djibouti for the fourth time . |
| 13 | Coun Richard Wastell , of Scarborough , was named as the mayor of Whitby for the third time . |
| 14 | The government confirmed on May 13 that it had landed a contingent of troops on the southern tip of Bougainville for the first time since 1990 , when it had withdrawn its forces from the island in the face of a protracted secessionist guerrilla war conducted by the Bougainville Revolutionary Army ( BRA ) . |
| 15 | On the day Khomeini flew in to Mehrabad Airport , she and Nader Nadirpur flew out of Teheran for the last time . |
| 16 | Elland Road stages the event between August 1–2 as the tournament moves out of London for the first time . |
| 17 | In 1939 , for instance , in an obituary of Ford for The Nineteenth Century and After , he had written of ‘ the stilted language that then passed for ‘ good English ’ in the arthritic milieu that held control of the respected British critical circles , Newbolt , the backwash of Lionel Johnson , Fred Manning , the Quarterlies and the rest of ‘ em ’ . |
| 18 | The Chanak crisis , which erupted in late September , drove Baldwin to the newsstands of Aix for the first time . |
| 19 | Since Hick 's elevation to the Test team we 've seen England share the most successful series against West Indies in the last nine , win a series against New Zealand for the first time in four attempts , win a Test match against Pakistan for the first time in 10 years , and , for good measure , reach the World Cup final . |
| 20 | His partnership of 322 with captain Javed Miandad set a new Pakistan record against England for the fourth wicket . |
| 21 | Blackburn boss Dalglish faced the nostalgia head-on as he prepared to lead out the opposition against Liverpool for the first time since his astonishing walk-out 20 months ago . |
| 22 | AUGUST 1991 , and Arsenal , my team the reigning champions , take the field against QPR for the first game of the new season . |
| 23 | After Dunfermline had failed to scored against Raith for the fourth time this season , manager Jocky Scott conceded the championship race to the Kirkcaldy side . |
| 24 | We have no regional offices , and do not appear in any local telephone books ; publicity material like the leaflets have HQ address on them and so many people making contact with CPRW for the first time , no matter where they live , come first to us . |
| 25 | The first day of term in the Foley household meant that Jack would put on a college scarf and head into UCD for the first time . |
| 26 | Ernst Richter was the latest recruit from the academy , having arrived the previous day , and he had been assigned to work with Mauer for the first month so that his temperament and personality could be assessed to ensure that later on he would be paired with the right partner . |
| 27 | He 's missing from the England team tomorrow of course but Gloucester will have a man playing for the Calcutta Cup … as skipper Ian Smith runs out with Scotland for the first time |
| 28 | Meese did in fact call while they were there , to set up an interview with North for the next day , Sunday : the interview in which he was to be confronted with the memorandum . |
| 29 | Benne Johannsen , manager of the Danish champions , travelled to Georgia with Linfield for the first leg and he 's not too keen on going back . |
| 30 | Now that they have achieved that ambition ahead of schedule , Stokes has the chance to take a team into Europe for the first time next season . |