Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] for the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same Irish track plays host tomorrow to the Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup and though there are no FitzGerald raiders this time , Yorkshire is again holding the ace hand with Jodami , second favourite for the next month 's Cheltenham Gold Cup . |
| 2 | John Sewell has a unique claim to a place in any gallery of Palace heroes , because he was the popular and talented skipper of the team which took our club into the 1st Division for the first time in its history , back in 1969 . |
| 3 | At the end of each season , the bottom three clubs in the First Division are relegated to the Second Division for the next season . |
| 4 | Newman , a decision in which the misappropriation theory was adopted by the Second Circuit for the first time , the court held that Newman had stolen information from his employer and had thereby breached his fiduciary duties to his employer and his employer 's clients . |
| 5 | The global trend , however , improved steadily throughout last year , the UK market making a £7 million profit in the fourth quarter for the second quarter in a row . |
| 6 | Another was the last goal he scored for us , on 30 September 1967 when , in front of a record crowd for a League fixture of 30,006 , Terry struck the only goal of the match against QPR , to put the Palace on top of the 2nd Division for the first time in our history . |
| 7 | certainly has earned his few quid tonight , about to take this goal kick , we 're inside the final minute of what has been a very good first half for the third division side , one goal each . |
| 8 | Northampton got to the fifth round for the first time after beating Bristol City ( finalists in 1909 ) and then Darlington , in a replay at home . |
| 9 | Natalia Zvereva was defeated in the first round for the seventh time this year when the American Marianne Werdel beat the eighth seed from the Soviet Union 6-2 , 6-3 in the Chicago tournament . |
| 10 | Yesterday he left out of the second Test against the West Indies his second humiliation of the winter after being 12th man for the first Test . |
| 11 | KEVIN DEARDEN saved a second-half penalty to earn Birmingham a 2–1 victory over Bolton which lifted them back to the top of the Third Division for the first time since November . |
| 12 | North-East football joined in the celebrations with Newcastle United victorious at Leicester City ending any lingering doubts they might drop into the Third Division for the first time in their illustrious history . |
| 13 | FORMER England goalkeeper Peter Shilton was sent off last night for the first time in his long career . |
| 14 | What came was a sort of double-image — the boy I had known up to yesterday , young , grubby , entertaining , kind , lively , with his impish , monkey-plainness ; and the face I had seen last night for the first time , a face wiped clean of everything but rapture and tenderness and astonishment , a different face , a face to love and find beautiful . |
| 15 | CELTIC savoured victory over Hibs at Parkhead last night for the first time since Liam Brady took over as manager , thanks to a couple of well-taken goals from Andy Payton . |
| 16 | CELTIC savoured victory over Hibs at Parkhead last night for the first time since Liam Brady took over as manager , thanks to a couple of well-taken goals from Andy Payton . |
| 17 | THE dinosaur film epic Jurassic Park looks like being a runaway success judging by the reaction of audiences who packed cinemas in New York last night for the first showing of the film . |
| 18 | I 'm going skiing next month for the first time . |
| 19 | The yield to maturity on the active-issues index of Donaldson , Lufkin & Jenrette , a Wall Street brokerage , fell below 19% last month for the first time since September . |
| 20 | Unadjusted unemployment , which topped three million last month for the first time since 1987 , fell by 19,451 to 3,042,614 — 10.8 per cent of the workforce . |
| 21 | Government statistics showed the number of people without work fell last month for the first time in more than two years |
| 22 | They 'd have the ten o'clock feed and then it , it 'd sleep through till , till the six o'clock the next morning for the next morning feed . |
| 23 | TV 's Gerry Kelly returns next week for the fifth season of his chat and entertainment show , Kelly . |
| 24 | The Building Society secretary from Bladon in Oxfordshire had a good start to the tournament , reaching the third round for the first time . |
| 25 | The Building Society secretary from Bladon in Oxfordshire had a good start to the tournament , reaching the third round for the first time . |
| 26 | With the bursting of the bubble , land prices fell last year for the first time in 17 years . |
| 27 | Last year for the first time there were European dressage titles in two categories : Werth won the conventional Special , while Rothenberger took the freestyle . |
| 28 | IBM , which announced a major restructuring after plunging into the red last year for the first time in its history , made an after-tax profit of $595m in the three months ending March . |
| 29 | The under-21s are more even highly-fancied to retain the national title , which they won last year for the first time by beating Nottinghamshire in the final . |
| 30 | Rural living standards in most areas had improved significantly in the 1980s , but last year for the first time they fell back . |