Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ostenecrosis was mentioned for the first time when the patient was seen by an orthopaedic surgeon with new radiographs ( see Figs 1 and 3 ) 30 months after the first bowel symptoms . |
| 2 | That is strange , for the boat was moored for the last night and the river was calm . |
| 3 | Fighting was reported for the first time in the east Bosnian towns of Visegrad and Foca , near the Serbian border . |
| 4 | PRIME Ministerial blood was drawn for the first time in the election campaign yesterday when Mr Major was hit by an egg thrown from close range . |
| 5 | The horse was racing for the first time for Epsom trainer Roger Ingram having previously run in Ireland for Joanna Morgan . |
| 6 | But then the scene was set for the first of Darlington 's structural engineering companies to install a series of iron bridges on the rapidly expanding rail networks . |
| 7 | Stoddard Templeton 's latest range was unveiled for the first time at the Brighton Carpet Exhibition in February . |
| 8 | The allocation of ore was settled for the next two years in America 's favour , but the compensating exchange of information was far less liberal than the British negotiators had hoped . |
| 9 | We were told that even if inward migration was to stop for the next ten years , 45,000 new houses would still be needed to cater for the predicted natural growth of 49,000 people , plus the trend towards smaller households . |
| 10 | WELSH RUGBY was united for the first time in the last few stormy months when the 203 member clubs of the Welsh Rugby Union decided to sever playing links with South Africa last night . |
| 11 | Eventually , after years of effort , the mill was run for the first time in 1977 . |
| 12 | In France the post of Secretary of State for War was given for the first time to a soldier ( the Maréchal de Belle-Isle ) in 1758 ; and in the second half of the century there was a slow but steady tendency for the most important officials concerned , the intendants d'armées and the contrôleurs des guerres , to be military men . |
| 13 | In 1981 , however , this fundamental right was challenged for the second time in another case to make legal history . |
| 14 | On Nov. 5 the cordoba was devalued for the 43rd time since Chamorro took office in April , the rate moving from US$1.00=1,540,000 cordobas to $1.00=1,610,000 cordobas . |
| 15 | A night sitter was booked for the first night , with a home care aide to go in several times the following day . |
| 16 | Saxton was talking for the first time since being sent home from Barcelona for taking the drug Clenbuterol . |
| 17 | Rowledge First School is usually used as the polling station for Bucks Horn Oak voters , but the venue was changed for the first time this year to the Forestry Commission 's offices in Christmas Tree Yard . |
| 18 | A follow-up CSCE meeting was scheduled for the first week of September . |
| 19 | The annual meeting was attended for the first time by a Soviet delegation led by Viktor Gerashchenko in anticipation of full Soviet membership of the Fund and the Bank . |
| 20 | The next meeting was set for the 23rd April but three days later disaster struck the party whilst they were viewing the God 's Gift Copper Mine . |
| 21 | Jaq imagined arcane astromantic calculations and perversions of Tarot divination — conducted by Carnelian , the Tarot-sneak ? — before this planet was chosen for the first emergence of the entity . |
| 22 | One patient developed a transitory respiratory arrest and the procedure was deferred for the next 48 hours . |
| 23 | The emergency service was used for the first time on 17th . |
| 24 | The event was held for the first time at the new Purdysburn Hospital Equestrian Centre outside Belfast . |
| 25 | More important , in 1762 recruitment was made for the first time a direct concern of the government , taking it out of the hands of the regimental officers who had hitherto controlled it . |
| 26 | The first flight was scheduled for the last week in January , and as luck would have it there was a wild prairie blizzard blowing across western Canada at just the wrong time . |
| 27 | Trouble , it seemed , was still in bed ; trouble was recuperating for the next engagement . |
| 28 | The game was set for the second goal-less draw at the ground in four days , when Andy Melville scored following a free kick . |
| 29 | In 1944 , under the impetus of a wave of strikes in the mines , the British Trotskyist movement was united for the first time as the Revolutionary Communist Party , anticipating the imminent collapse of capitalism in the West and Stalinism in Russia . |
| 30 | After the attempt various constitutional clauses were suspended and press and television censorship was imposed for the first time in over 30 years to exclude media coverage of coup leader Chávez Frías . |