Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French Senator-Minister for the High Police controlled a web of espionage as efficient as that of the Hapsburgs , and if anything even more ruthless . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Marshall took 10 for 92 in that match but arrived at Old Trafford for the third Test reportedly with a rib injury . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | BGS drilled 18 boreholes west of the Outer Hebrides for the shallow drilling programme described above ( see Systematic offshore surveys ) . |
| 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 | JOHN CALE , avant-garde elder statesman and Velvet Underground founder member , whose live panto , guitar and vocals album ‘ Fragments Of A Rain Season ’ is out now on Hannibal Records , plays in his native Wales for the first time in almost a decade as part of his autumn tour , visiting . |
| 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 | As pesticide concentrations in the environment fall , birds of prey are returning to areas of eastern England for the first time in decades . |
| 10 | The younger people had abandoned rain-swept , wind-swept Mayo for the bright lights of London and Dublin . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Centre back Chris Whyte slipped and top goalscorer Fritz Walter expertly chipped over the advancing Lukic for the 63rd-minute opening strike . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The SCDC Arts in Schools Project , although spoken of by the one LEA in the sample which was a participant in terms of gratitude for the support the Project 's staff had given , was criticized by staff in the other LEAs for the limited help it had given to them . |
| 16 | Thus , to the primary objective : the production of a new OED for the twenty-first century ; we must add a second objective : the electronic handling and delivery of the information contained in and added to the OED , so that the latter is able to be altered in response to changes in the language . |
| 17 | Prominently displayed in the ad was the statement , ‘ People buy the New Yorker for the damndest reasons . |
| 18 | The fittings provided on most cylinders are 1in male BSP for the boiler connections and 1in ( or ¾in ) female BSP for the cold inlet and hot outlet . |