Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun prp] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As pesticide concentrations in the environment fall , birds of prey are returning to areas of eastern England for the first time in decades . |
| 2 | Now we 're off to America and the desert of southern California for the first of a four part series featuring the RAF 's parachute display team — the Falcons . |
| 3 | The idea of reproducing the unique taste , character and creamy head of Draught Guinness for the take-home market had been around for many years . |
| 4 | Talented scrum-half Robert Du Preez has left the Blue Bulls of Northern Transvaal for the greener pastures of Natal , the first shot in a heated close-season transfer market . |
| 5 | Every one of the European allies by whose side she had fought against Nazi Germany for the previous two years was now defeated and occupied . |
| 6 | ‘ My whinge is being charged 10 for being overdrawn with National Giro for the first time ever and by only 3.11 — and even though they were in possession of cheques for 36.53 which they knew would be honoured . ’ |
| 7 | When Bukharin , in his speech to the Sixth Congress , emphasised that the Latin American Communist parties ‘ had an important role to play in the development of national and agrarian revolutions ’ , Brazilian delegate Fernando Lacerna somewhat tartly pointed out that a Communist movement had existed in Latin America since 1920 but it was only in 1928 that ’ the Communist International [ had ] shown its interest in Latin America for the first time ’ ( La Correspondance Internationale ( organ of the Communist International ) , 1928 , in Alba : 1964 , p. 188 ) . |
| 8 | Kohl , in eastern Germany for the first time since the December 1990 general election , was jeered and pelted with eggs by several hundred protesters on April 7 in Erfurt ( where enthusiastic crowds of over 100,000 had greeted him on his last visit in February 1990 — see p. 37260 ) . |
| 9 | The advance was a direct snub for America , which hours earlier had criticised Serbian paramilitaries and the regime in neighbouring Serbia for the escalating conflict in Bosnia . |
| 10 | The 1992 , Europe and Trade campaign , beginning in September 1992 , will have an emphasis on Latin America for the first four months and then for the remainder of the year will focus on Europe and Trade in the global context . |
| 11 | There will be a benefit preview on 2 April for the National Down 's Syndrome Society , tickets $15 . |
| 12 | Robson is now even more determined to assist United in the overriding ambition of bringing the League title to Old Trafford for the first time in 25 years . |
| 13 | Jochen and Elke warn Fabian not to go out on the streets on 7 October for the 40th anniversary of the formation of East Germany , and for God 's sake not to demonstrate . |
| 14 | and send their thanks to all QTs for the lovely chard and flowers to celebrate their Silver Wedding . |
| 15 | — undertaking annual declarations on long-range SLCMs for the next five years with each side limiting its SLCMs to 880 . |
| 16 | In the Hague , the International Court of Justice said it would sit on 1 April for the first public hearing in a war crimes case Bosnia has brought against Serbia and Montenegro . |
| 17 | FIG. 4 Total ozone ( Dobson Units , including an estimated tropospheric component ) on 14 April for the corresponding model simulations a-d shown in Fig. 1 . |
| 18 | These will only be resolved in the course of an internal struggle , which will eventually produce governments neither more nor less enlightened than , for instance , those which have ruled over western Europe for the last five hundred years . |
| 19 | Marshall took 10 for 92 in that match but arrived at Old Trafford for the third Test reportedly with a rib injury . |
| 20 | DEC has filled the critical post of head of worldwide sales and marketing , naming Edward Lucente , once an IBM bright light and a top guy at Northern Telecom for the last two years , completing its new executive roster . |
| 21 | It would have been storybook stuff had he returned to win the British Seniors ' Open at Lytham or defend his Forte PGA Seniors ' Open title at Royal Dublin for the third successive year . |
| 22 | He did not leave London until 25 August , and he was back in Paris by 18 September for the only attempt which he ever made , as head of government , to negotiate direct with a foreign statesman . |