Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nine players in that side appeared for the first team later . |
| 2 | Pawson has pointed out that in building the canals , British engineers had for the first time " to grapple with large scale civil engineering problems " . |
| 3 | British sport began for the first time to embrace commercialism , although the process was cautious and gradual . |
| 4 | The Bishop who was now an ageing man resided for the most of his time at Halling , and Trottescliffe . |
| 5 | The old man spoke for the first time . |
| 6 | In the following year another problem arose for the British ; the Red Sea cable to India had failed . |
| 7 | An announcement by Argentina 's President Carlos Menem rescinding a planned threefold hike in the duties on paper imported for book production was greeted with delight by hundreds of publishers and other book professionals from all over Latin America gathered for the official opening ceremony of the 19th Buenos Aires International Book Fair on 16th April . |
| 8 | The old Bishop waited for the little murmur of sympathetic approval that ran through the ranks , and they listened just as sympathetically as he rambled on into the usual pious platitudes that ended his eulogy . |
| 9 | From 1865 , however , the foreign office had for the first time a department concerned entirely with commercial affairs . |
| 10 | Entire neighbourhoods headed for the unexpected one-way potlatch . |
| 11 | Relations deteriorated further in late March as hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Kurdish refugees headed for the Iranian border . |
| 12 | Just as this same lively and turbulent natural process did for the ancient Egyptians . |
| 13 | These statements spoke for the whole Unionist party in their vigorous tone , in the denial that Unionists were responsible for the state of things , and in the laying of blame on the Nationalists . |
| 14 | Cordless power-tools are doing for woodworkers what Fast Food did for the High Street over a decade ago . |
| 15 | At the start of NEP many of these papers collapsed for the same reasons that affected others . |
| 16 | The mixture fizzed like mad , you swallowed the concoction and with little delay sprinted for the nearest lavatory , hoping that your speed would be faster than the deadly powder . |
| 17 | On a wild and windy day , with gusts of rain driving into the side of the crematorium , an Anglican priest waited for the next funeral to commence . |
| 18 | Even the Ottoman empire began for the first time in its history to acquire some more or less clearly defined boundaries when , after the treaty of Carlowitz of 1699 , joint commissions were set up to demarcate its frontiers with Habsburg territory . |
| 19 | But ten minutes sufficed for the blazing gun-fight , and for the affecting death scene with soaring strings . |
| 20 | Lévi-Strauss saw structuralism as playing the same role for the social sciences as nuclear physics had for the physical sciences . |
| 21 | ‘ By the beginning of 1960 ’ , he wrote , ‘ it could no longer be denied that certain parts of London at night were dominated by a new spirit of insecurity ’ : ‘ juvenile delinquency had for the first time in Britain become elevated to the status of a national problem ’ . |
| 22 | It also endorsed the hostility which many of those radicals felt for the orthodox left . |
| 23 | In my case , the first and most important candle stood for the dark forest . |
| 24 | Using the 100-inch telescope on Mount Wilson , in 1923 Hubble identified for the first time a cepheid variable star in a spiral ‘ nebula ’ ( M 31 in Andromeda ) , and proceeded in the next few years to make similar discoveries in several other such ‘ nebulae ’ . |
| 25 | MIA Farrow 's adopted daughter spoke for the first time yesterday of her ‘ wonderful ’ affair with Woody Allen . |
| 26 | Ironically , given the state of collapse of communism across Eastern Europe and the avowed reformist intentions of the BCP , when Lukanov 's proposals for the composition of his government were approved by the National Assembly on Feb. 8 Bulgaria acquired for the first time in its history an all-communist government . |
| 27 | America 's industrial production fell for the fourth successive month in January , by 0.4% , to give a 12-month decline of 0.9% . |
| 28 | It is suggestive that during his reign military uniform became for the first time permissible dress at the Habsburg court . |
| 29 | A total of 553 candidates stood for the 120 seats in the Assembly . |
| 30 | During an official visit to France in December 1989 Kaysone confirmed for the first time the death of the former King of Laos , Savang Vatthana . |