Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb past] for [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | British sport began for the first time to embrace commercialism , although the process was cautious and gradual . |
| 2 | The old man spoke for the first time . |
| 3 | From 1865 , however , the foreign office had for the first time a department concerned entirely with commercial affairs . |
| 4 | Washington 's key economic gauge faltered for a second month in September . |
| 5 | Despite a slump in the equity markets , the Japanese economy grew for a fourth consecutive year during 1990 . |
| 6 | MR Ladislav Adamec , the Czechoslovak Prime Minister , threatened to quit last night , as hard bargaining continued for a second day with the opposition over the shape of the new government . |
| 7 | On a wild and windy day , with gusts of rain driving into the side of the crematorium , an Anglican priest waited for the next funeral to commence . |
| 8 | Even the Ottoman empire began for the first time in its history to acquire some more or less clearly defined boundaries when , after the treaty of Carlowitz of 1699 , joint commissions were set up to demarcate its frontiers with Habsburg territory . |
| 9 | ‘ By the beginning of 1960 ’ , he wrote , ‘ it could no longer be denied that certain parts of London at night were dominated by a new spirit of insecurity ’ : ‘ juvenile delinquency had for the first time in Britain become elevated to the status of a national problem ’ . |
| 10 | MIA Farrow 's adopted daughter spoke for the first time yesterday of her ‘ wonderful ’ affair with Woody Allen . |
| 11 | America 's industrial production fell for the fourth successive month in January , by 0.4% , to give a 12-month decline of 0.9% . |
| 12 | It is suggestive that during his reign military uniform became for the first time permissible dress at the Habsburg court . |
| 13 | America 's four-jet airliner flew for the first time on July 15 , 1954 and immediately revolutionised the world of mass air travel . |