Example sentences of "[noun prp] [num] for the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of this awareness , it seems extraordinary that the candidate in Madrid favoured by Prim and his government was one who was bound to be unacceptable to Napoleon III for the simple reason that he was a son of King Louis-Philippe and so represented the Orléanist dynasty . |
| 2 | The Collective State Presidency , excluding the Slovene representative Janez Drnovsek , met on July 4 for the first time with Mesic as President [ see p. 38275 ] . |
| 3 | There is now a course at Brighton starting in January 1992 for the Intermediate Stage . |
| 4 | ISLANDERS in the tiny Pacific state of Palau vote in a referendum on February 6 for the seventh time on a deal with the United States which would give the US strategic military rights in the Western Pacific only 500 miles from the troubled Philippines . |
| 5 | Earlier , there had been fighting at Mannar on Aug. 1 as the LTTE attacked an advancing troop convoy ; naval artillery was used against rebel positions on Aug. 3 for the first time since the resumption of large-scale fighting on June 11 ; and a major clash took place on Aug. 4-5 , involving the repulsing of an unsuccessful rebel attack against the Jaffna fort . |
| 6 | Multiparty elections to a 23-member constituent commission were held on July 23-26 for the first time since the 1977 coup , when Sir James Mancham was overthrown by France-Albert René [ see pp. 28485-86 ] . |
| 7 | Membership would entail the release of detailed information on the Soviet economy , and observers saw the publication of Gosbank ( Soviet State Bank ) accounts on July 16 for the first time since 1936 as the beginnings of this . |
| 8 | Savimbi returned to Luanda on Sept. 27 for the first time since the start of the 16-year civil war . |
| 9 | A ( Soviet ) DRA proposal at the Geneva talks in February 1987 for the first time made public a time frame for Soviet withdrawal , eighteen months , with no conditions attached to the process of ‘ national reconciliation ’ in Afghanistan . |
| 10 | Experts from 118 signatory countries met in Geneva on Sept. 9-27 for the third review conference of the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention [ see p. 25237-39 ] . |
| 11 | The North Korean Premier , Yon Hyong Muk , met his Southern counterpart , Chung Won Shik , in Seoul , the South Korean capital , on May 6-7 for the seventh round of Premiers ' talks [ for sixth round see pp. 38766-67 ] . |
| 12 | With the prospects of breaking the stalemate fading , hopes rose following the announcement that the government and ANC representatives had held talks on July 28 for the first time since the ANC broke off contact on June 23 . |
| 13 | In 1955 also the idea of a Children 's Church on Sunday mornings was first suggested ( thought it did not start till November 1960 ) and in December 1955 for the first time there was a Christmas tree in church . |
| 14 | Representatives of Japan and North Korea met in Beijing on May 20 for the third round of the ongoing normalization talks . |
| 15 | His wife , Celia , 63 , will be travelling with him to London on February 19 for the formal investiture at the Grand Priory Church , St John 's Square , in Clerkenwell . |
| 16 | The House will recall my Adjournment debate of 22 January 1991 following the publication in December 1990 for the first time of the annual report by Her Majesty 's inspector of constabulary , Mr. Geoffrey Dear . |
| 17 | Representatives of West Berlin , which is not a constituent part of the Federal Republic , in both the Bundestag and Bundesrat have since May 1990 for the first time had full voting rights in both bodies . |
| 18 | THE MEN THEY COULD N'T HANG play a second show at London 's Mean Fiddler on November 30 for the last night of the venue 's tenth anniversary celebrations . |
| 19 | I continued feeding with Liquifry 1 moving up to Liquifry 2 for the last feed . |
| 20 | AN UNDERWATER SEARCH started on October 12 for the well-known aviator , Antoine de Saint-Exupery ( FP September p45 ) . |
| 21 | There are people here who believe they have an argument with Muller and his colleagues , an assembly of protest who claim to have formed on October 7 for the specific purpose of political disruption . |
| 22 | TENDERS were due to be in by October 10 for the latest round of Ministry of Defence disposals . |
| 23 | Ghana signed a communiqué with the transitional government of TOGO on Oct. 4 under which the two countries agreed to " promote close and mutually beneficial co-operation " ; land , sea and air borders were opened on Oct. 5 for the free movement of goods and persons . |
| 24 | Hekmatyar 's most powerful rival in the mujaheddin , the northern-based Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ahmad Shah Massud ( known as the " Lion of Panjsher " for his victories over Soviet troops in the Panjsher Valley — see p. 36396 ) , visited Islamabad , the Pakistan capital , on Oct. 13 for the first time for more than 10 years , to meet other mujaheddin leaders and senior Pakistani civilian and military officials , including the Pakistani President , Ghulam Ishaq Khan , the Army Chief of Staff , Gen. Mirza Aslam Beg , and the ISI chief , Maj.-Gen. |
| 25 | In Turkmenia Saparmurad Niyazov , Turkmen Communist Party ( CP ) first secretary and hitherto de facto president in his capacity as Chair of the Turkmen Supreme Soviet , was unopposed in a direct election on Oct. 27 for the new post of executive President ( who would also head the republic 's government ) , and polled 98.3 per cent of the vote . |
| 26 | The UN Security Council had reconvened on Feb. 13 for the first time since the outbreak of hostilities to review the progress of the conflict . |
| 27 | The igfet SC implementation constructed at King 's uses a chip designed at University College , and fabricated at Plessey III/V for the operational amplifier and capacitor parts of the circuit . |
| 28 | Senior officials from India and Pakistan met in New Delhi on Nov. 5-6 for the fifth round of talks on the Sir Creek border dispute relating to the demarcation of maritime boundaries in the Great Rann of Kutch [ see pp. 38153 ; 38533 ] . |
| 29 | Preliminary results in the elections held concurrently on Nov. 11 for the 100-seat Congress showed that the UCN had emerged as the strongest party with 41 seats , the PDCG second with 29 and the MAS third with 19 seats . |
| 30 | Iraqi authorities lifted the night-time curfew on Nov. 23 for the first time since the Aug. 2 invasion [ see pp. 37632-35 ] . |