Example sentences of "[noun sg] for the [num ord] [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 This put the central management of the Course on a more secure footing for the important preparation for the second resubmission of the Course in 1983 — 84 .
2 WITH the two main floodlit tournaments in Junior Rugby just around the corner , many clubs are looking forward to the opportunity to sharpen their skills in preparation for the first batch of league matches .
3 It 's money for preparation for the next phase of building work which is to restore the Grand Stair and the rainwater system which has failed .
4 I 'm sure you already have too many papers to read , but since I have spare copies I have enclosed a background paper we received on a European coastal conservation strategy , and a commentary on the EC and the Ramsar Convention in preparation for the 5th conference of the contracting parties of the Convention .
5 This , of course , is a much more significant limitation on scope than exists in single-contract Conventions such as the Sales Convention , and in this respect the case for the second limb of application of the two latter Conventions is stronger .
6 Cypress Semiconductor Corp and its Ross Technology Inc subsidiary last week delivered their repost to Texas Instruments Inc 's superscalar Viking Sparc in the form of HyperSparc , a 64-bit microprocessor which they hope will compete with Texas ' part for the next generation of Sparc RISC system business .
7 The Volkskammer approved on July 22 a budget for the second half of 1990 .
8 On March 27 the Russian Supreme Soviet rejected the government 's draft budget for the second quarter of 1992 and ordered it to present a new version in April .
9 The budget for the first half of 1918 had been estimated at 17.6 milliard roubles expenditure , but revenue at only 2.8 milliard .
10 On Jan. 24 , the budget for the first quarter of 1992 , amounting to 420,500 million roubles , was adopted by the Supreme Soviet .
11 Debate began in the Sejm ( the lower house of parliament ) on Jan. 4 on the government 's provisional budget for the first quarter of 1992 , which included cuts planned by the previous administration of Jan Bielecki and continued reductions in state subsidies .
12 When a missionary report estimated how much it cost per capita to convert people to Christianity , and presented a budget for the next harvest of souls , then conversion had become a business venture .
13 Jarbas Passarinho , the federal justice minister and an outspoken opponent of the park , must now agree a budget for the next stage of Operation Free Jungle .
14 Little dabs of left brake counteracted the crosswind for the first couple of hundred yards , but above sixty knots the rudders became effective and she was easy to align just beside the centreline lights to spare us their jolting .
15 In practice , student occupancy for the last week of the Christmas and Easter terms averages 50 per cent , while that for the last two weeks of the summer term is 33 per cent .
16 New telephone numbers have been issued to all staff , but a few main enquiry numbers will be retained and calls on the old numbers will be transferred to the new building for the first couple of months .
17 The general enthusiasm for the fortieth anniversary of the structure of DNA should not blind us to a few blemishes on the otherwise fair face of molecular biology .
18 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 .
19 Much attention will focus on the inclusion in the census for the first time of the self reported limiting , longstanding sickness item .
20 Yeltsin and Bush had also agreed in principle that Russian cosmonauts should fly aboard a US space shuttle and conduct joint space walks with US astronauts in October 1993 , and agreed to ( i ) a possible rendezvous and docking mission between the Mir and the US space shuttle in 1994 or 1995 ; ( ii ) possible US participation in a Russian robot mission to Mars ; ( iii ) joint exchange visits by US and Russian aerospace companies to investigate joint ventures and procurement opportunities ; and ( iv ) US support for the first launch of a US-built satellite aboard a Russian Proton rocket .
21 Even when these insects adopt a very different existence for the first part of their lives , they do not change their form very radically .
22 In 1980 , a group of young musicians met in the University for the first rehearsal of what has since become one of the country 's leading brass ensembles .
23 Having assured himself that he was all alone , he climbed from his bed , entered his dressing-gown and took himself down to the kitchen for the first breakfast of the day .
24 If , when you have read the letter overleaf , you decide to accept responsibility for the first £50 of claims please fill in the boxes below .
25 I wish to accept responsibility for the first £50 of all claims under Section 1 — Buildings of the above policy ( other than claims arising from Subsidence , where special conditions apply , or Fire or Property Owners Liability ) .
26 At Birkbeck , Joyce passed the intermediate examination for his BA and then read English language and literature for the second part of his degree .
27 Similar acrobatics came into play for the last episode of the seven-part series , a forty-five-minute Christmas special in which Frank learns to fly .
28 instead the Church preferred to use the Annunciation for the first day of the year , and this led to the adoption of 25 March , nine months before Christmas , although this choice was by no means universal .
29 Seedcorn money for the first round of fieldwork ( in 1983 ) was provided by the Economic and Social Research Council and by the Nuffield Foundation .
30 It was arranged that I should have only a very small amount of money for the next couple of weeks That was the point : to pretend to be poverty-stricken , to see how we would manage .
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