Example sentences of "[noun pl] for the [adj] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , it was pointed out to me that some teachers were making lesson notes for the first time in years ! |
| 2 | Earlier , as the government and ANC took steps at the weekend to prepare for South Africa 's first all-race elections , President FW de Klerk gave cabinet posts to non-whites for the first time in South Africa 's history and got rid of white ministers said to be reluctant to back his sweeping apartheid reforms . |
| 3 | In 1984 , queues formed outside privately-run hairdressers for the latest fashion in ‘ perms ’ . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , the reasons for the striking decline in infant mortality in this period remain rather mysterious . |
| 5 | It is a re-analysis of the reasons for the industrial revolution in Britain . |
| 6 | So far we have considered reasons for the general increase in local government expenditure over the years . |
| 7 | The reasons for the apparent change in relative incidence at different sites are poorly understood and there is controversy about whether the increase of cardia cancer represents an absolute increment or whether the apparent increase is related to a decreased incidence of antral tumours . |
| 8 | New York City IDUs accurately perceive themselves as vulnerable to TB , and correctly identify some of the major reasons for the recent resurgence in TB . |
| 9 | The Italians see many reasons for the sharp increase in numbers . |
| 10 | One of the reasons for the slow advance in understanding syphilis and gonorrhoea was the belief that the two conditions were simply different manifestations of the same disease . |
| 11 | It could be argued that one of the reasons for the social division in the area might be the fact that those in charge of the paraphernalia of research did in a sense predefine conflict in this way . |
| 12 | I retire to the toilets for the third time in the space of ten minutes . |
| 13 | CHILD star Macauley Culkin 's Home Alone 2 : Lost In New York has topped US box office takings for the third week in a row , earning Pounds 8 million . |
| 14 | Some of these activities related to institutional developments ( for example , on diversification ) , others to new ways of approaching familiar ground ( for example , on school experience ) , others to new approaches to the packaging of knowledge and its applications ( for example , a conference on communication studies held in 1978 ) , others to the representation of existing activities for the first time in higher education ( for example , in the creative and performing arts ) , and yet others on the mechanics of the CNAA 's own work in validating courses and seeking to assure standards ( for example , a conference on the role of external examiners held in October 1978 ) . |
| 15 | In the depth of the recession , with the motor industry suffering more than most , Rover is introducing night shifts for the first time in three years . |
| 16 | wants to see plans for the modified programme in early June , and a first draft is expected by mid-May . |
| 17 | Mr Rawlins announced his intention to leave Sturge at some time in the future towards the end of last year although he had no specific plans for the next step in his career . |
| 18 | The right of an employee inventor to claim statutory compensation from his employer has recently been asserted before the courts for the first time in a series of three reported cases emanating from the Comptroller of Patents and the Patents Court . |
| 19 | PETER Shreeves was sacked by Spurs for the second time in six years yesterday . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's remarkable that , in addition to playing 11 cities around the country , the educational programme played to over 5,000 kids and brought many of them to the main theatre in their local cities for the first time in their lives , on subsidised tickets . |
| 21 | A 2,500-seat auditorium with stage space for a 60-piece orchestra is being built within the palace courtyards for the 10-day festival in June . |
| 22 | Table 2.2 demonstrates changes over the seventeen years to 1987 : western Europe took over half our exports for the first time in recent history ; by 1987 , the EC alone took virtually half , and most other destinations , except for North America , had declined in relative importance . |
| 23 | Two weeks after the publication of proposals for the National Curriculum in September 1987 , the Times Educational Supplement invited 13 curriculum pundits to give their views . |
| 24 | His later declarations were filled with similar anger at the way in which Muhammad Reza was substituting Western values for the Islamic tradition in Iran . |
| 25 | At the Food Research Institute Dr David Southgate , who has made a special study of dietary fibre and whose research is the source of the scientific textbook fibre figures , has provided analytical values for the dietary fibre in a range of usefully fibre-rich canned and packaged foods , so that for the first time these products , which form such a major part of modern eating , can be realistically assessed and used for health value . |
| 26 | His mates had all scored and he inexplicably had n't , in spite of the money he 'd blown on all those lime-green cocktails for the bleached slag in the dress with all the red spangles . |
| 27 | Harry Dodson and his wife are well versed in the language of flowers , and have made wedding bouquets professionally for a good long time : they made the beautiful posies for the Victorian wedding in the forthcoming television series The Victorian Flower Garden . |
| 28 | If the women really are changing the parturition rules for the second time in ten years , it is probably more to keep the men on the hop than anything else — just as black people keep changing the name you are allowed to call them in order to keep whitey on his toes . |
| 29 | Corresponding times for the same band in second take only 0.5secs or so more , and even by using third they are barely lengthened by 1sec . |
| 30 | Sung looked up , meeting Bergson 's cold grey eyes for the first time in their interview , then looked down again , understanding perfectly . |