Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] for the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As investors and the better-paid alike give thanks for their deliverance , that most essential and intangible ingredient for economic recovery — confidence — is suddenly present for the first time in three years . |
| 2 | I 've been so thirsty for the last hour , I could n't be bothered to go and find a drink . |
| 3 | This is a source that is of course only available for the twentieth century . |
| 4 | Like oriental flowers on fragile weaving stalks , the Rokkaku flock is impatiently ready for the next signal . |
| 5 | At the back of the room , solitary now , and perfectly prepared to be wholly bored for the next hour ( or was it two ? ) sat Mr Aldrich . |
| 6 | The system of cash planning introduced in 1982 remained fundamentally unchanged for the next decade , but see below . |
| 7 | When you 're giving feedback to people , yes , there were going to bad things about what they 've done , yes , there 's going to be good things , but if you can catch the bad things between two good things , even if the good things are just saying thank you , they 're going to go away with a bigger smile on their face , and probably feel more motivated for the next time they do that task . |
| 8 | This process puts the data model in a form more suitable for the next stage of the methodology . |
| 9 | Alpine days stay reasonably warm for the first half of the month . |
| 10 | It 's also important for the first time buyer . |
| 11 | He was collecting for over forty years and , as Miller was a regular recipient of Bartram 's shipments , it can be assumed that ‘ a large proportion of plants credited to Miller as introducer consisted of collections by Bartram and if this is true he was probably responsible for the first appearance in the gardens of England of between one hundred and fifty and two hundred plants ’ ( John Hendley Barnhart , ‘ Significance of John Bartram 's Work to Botanical and Horticultural Knowledge ’ , Bartonia Special Issue , 1931 ) . |
| 12 | Although the excavators have warned that these dates are only a broad indication of that of the complex and segmented line which is this phase of the Danevirke as a whole , they nevertheless believe that in a period of danger from Germany Harald rebuilt the central section , and was also responsible for the first phases of the flanking lines to east and west . |
| 13 | It is curious that it should have happened , that Michel came upon the scene the very instant she was really free for the first time in her life . |
| 14 | To his pleasant surprise he discovered that he was now able to think with an objective clarity which stemmed from the knowledge that he was now free for the first time in his life to speak his mind without fear or favour . |
| 15 | For Swindon it was shooting practice young Marcus Phillips on as sub for the first time nearly got a goal but it was Torquay who tookover towards the end … |
| 16 | In addition its PC-NFS Advanced Telnet software for terminal emulation is now available for the first time in 10- , 25- , 100- and 500-user packs with prices ranging from $1,600 to $49,500 . |
| 17 | Such essential measures as library expenditure per student , per capita computing costs , and many other management data , are now available for the first time in published form , so that universities can see at a glance how they measure up to similar institutions . |
| 18 | RIVER CROSSENS : Good fishery but often slow for the first week or so until fish located . |
| 19 | The lyrical approach — the rich tone , the singing through the note , the sustained legato , the controlled phrase-endings — is most apparent for the last line of each chorus . |
| 20 | A new room for the study of the 7,000-or-so drawings and 27,000 prints which make up the Courtauld collection will make these works widely available for the first time . |
| 21 | She felt triumphantly free for the first time in her life . |
| 22 | A sense of self-preservation cautioned her not to stick around , and before he could react she sprinted up to the house , feeling strangely exhilarated for the first time since she had left England . |
| 23 | Prost had come cheap — virtually free for the first year — and Niki had re-signed for a very large sum indeed . |
| 24 | One plant houses the company 's IBM mainframe computer — one of the biggest in the state — and a CAD ( computer-aided design ) department has been fully operational for the last year . |
| 25 | One plant houses the company 's IBM mainframe computer — one of the biggest in the state — and a CAD ( computer-aided design ) department has been fully operational for the last year . |
| 26 | The thin , pale sunshine gave little warmth , but it was a welcome extension of the autumn , and unusually fine for the last day of October . |
| 27 | We 're trying at the moment to get in non-conformist church records , or at least to get copies of them if the churches do n't want to let us have them , because they 're quite important for the nineteenth century history of East Sussex , and erm really any help that we can get from the general public who 've got old documents relating to their properties , minutes of any organisation that they 've been involved in , or that used to exist and that 's now collapsed , anything like that that can add to the history of the county we 're always very grateful to receive . |
| 28 | We 're trying at the moment to get in Nonconformist church records , or at least to get copies of them if the churches do n't want to let us have them , because they 're quite important for the nineteenth century history of East Sussex , and erm really any help that erm that we can get from the general public who 've got old documents relating to their properties , minutes of any organisations that they 've been involved in or that used to exist and that 's now collapsed , anything like that that can add to the history of the county , we 're always very grateful to receive . |
| 29 | On Oct. 15 the Mar Mikha'il-Galerie Sim'an and the Dar al-Wahsh-Alayh crossing points were re-opened , making the Beirut-Damascus highway fully passable for the first time since 1985 . |
| 30 | But when we have a prop proper set of gloves we ought to put the gloves and the goggles there ready for the next person to use . |