Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] for the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marcel , the first person narrator of the novel , meets the writer Bergotte for the first time . |
| 2 | Perhaps the honourable member should do a competitiveness survey and go somewhere else for his queue , I do n't know but what I can tell the honourable gentleman is that even though there were losses in the banking industry for the last year there have been strongly offsetting rises in insurance and business services . |
| 3 | AFTER 21 years service has covered his drawing board for the last time to take up the more leisurely pursuits of photography and walking in his retirement . |
| 4 | AFTER more than 31 years working for , electrical engineer has packed away his drawing board for the last time and started his retirement . |
| 5 | The move is the latest in a series of cost-cutting measures and will reduce the group 's investment exposure for the next generation of business jets . |
| 6 | Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt 's excellent book , The Bomber Command War Diaries tell us that on the night of 23/24 September Bomber Command for the first time concentrated its main bomber strength on one city — Berlin . |
| 7 | ‘ From a planning point of view it would not have been a major worry , although only the force staging the original tie could police the second replay because all the liaison work for the first match would have been done . |
| 8 | Erm , leisure services product , erm , project erm , closure , really that was an opportunity to erm , to close the loss making element of provision without cost , and in view of the erm , rather poor outlook for maintenance work for the next contract year , it seemed sensible for us to do that . |
| 9 | Minister of Science William Waldegrave , may have released the first major UK government White Paper on science and technology for over 10 years yesterday , but information technology professionals need n't hold their breath : while Waldegrave seems to think we should count ourselves lucky because we 've got our own research council for the first time , it would be more truthful to say we 've been stuffed into the miscellaneous section of the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council , along with the electronic , electrical and communications industries ; our body , together with the Particle Physics and Sciences Research Council , will replace the Science and Engineering Research Council ; as a result , we will benefit ‘ from the same building of bridges between research bodies and industry ’ as the rest of the reorganised bodies and should experience interaction at an earlier stage — on the Japanese and German model . |
| 10 | As the Secretary of State said , the tendering process for the fourth boat has started . |
| 11 | TWO players were sent off and four others booked as Antwerp , Belgium 's oldest club , reached the semi-finals of a European club competition for the first time . |
| 12 | And then , of course , only on the day after you took the car to the car wash for the first time in months . |
| 13 | I have seen queues of students , many of them learning English through ‘ self-study ’ forming outside the test centres in Beijing just in order to gain an entry form for the next sitting of the TOEFL examination . |
| 14 | The impasse was eventually broken after the Prime Minister invoked an arcane constitutional device to create more PCP Senators [ see p. 37705 ] , and used a closure motion for the first time within Canada 's upper chamber . |
| 15 | It was under Dick Graham that Palace won promotion to Division Two to leave the lower reaches of the Football League for the first time in 39 years . |
| 16 | Scott , revealing details of the 500-page bid document for the first time , insisted the big selling point was the proximity of the sports venues to the competitors ' village , which would be in a canalside setting in the heart of the city . |
| 17 | Now available by mail order for the first time ( call for a brochure ) , we have 30 Make-Up Removers worth £7.25 each to give away . |
| 18 | The term formative is fairly obvious for the beginning of a development process so , also , the term expansion for the next stage . |
| 19 | They gave him a bit of consultancy work for the first year , but after that he did n't know what he would do . |
| 20 | Moreover luck sometimes prevented the family conflicts of the Merovingians from getting out of hand : accident of survival meant that the kingdom was united in 558 , when Chlothar I was left as the only surviving son of Clovis , and was able to unite the regnum Francorum for the first time in forty-seven years . |
| 21 | Oxford have now won 16 of the last 17 races , and have taken the Beefeater Gin Trophy for the sixth year running . |
| 22 | Over the next few months the government will be deciding whether to freeze Child Benefit for the 4th year running . |
| 23 | The end of a 10-year drought : David Gower hits the winning runs and England have beaten Pakistan in a Test match for the first time since 1982 |
| 24 | The end of a 10-year drought : David Gower hits the winning runs and England have beaten Pakistan in a Test match for the first time since 1982 |
| 25 | Bottles of boiling water from the kitchen kept us warm at night and provided sterile drinking water for the next day . |
| 26 | ‘ We 'll discuss tackling that lot later , once the platoon commanders have given me their expected manpower availability for the next week … . ’ |
| 27 | I could be bathing the children , watching that Thomas the Tank Engine video for the 100th time … |
| 28 | He believes if Jones , Paul Moriarty and skipper Young tame the visitors ' more experienced forwards , Wales ' gifted backline can upset England on home soil for the first time since 1949 . |
| 29 | Later this month , it will announce an operating profit for the first quarter of 1992 , the second quarter running in which it has been profitable : the last quarter of 1991 produced a small profit of $80 million , although the year as a whole showed a $1.4 billion loss on turnover of $8.6 billion . |
| 30 | He made his debut for Palace on 27 October 1923 when Palace won 1–0 at Bradford City but he really came to the fore when an injury to Bob Greener left a vacancy in the half-back line for the 3rd Replay with Notts County at Villa Park , in Palace 's longest ever Cup-tie in February 1924 . |