Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was not ‘ cushion ’ the term which eventually became vogue for the extra help which was thrown over the poll tax time and again in a vain attempt to douse the flames of dissent . |
| 2 | Many hundreds of thousands of trade unionists were among those who became shareholders for the first time . |
| 3 | The legislation made provision for the compulsory purchase of 5,500,000 hectares of predominantly white-owned land earmarked for redistribution to black families . |
| 4 | In 1988 , amidst a great burst of publicity , one forestry company announced plans for the future management and improvement of a river they owned . |
| 5 | He also had a keen grasp of steam locomotive matters and was responsible for introducing suburban passenger locomotives in 1945 , in which year he also made proposals for the first LMS ( and British ) main-line diesel-electric locomotives , which were finally introduced under his successor H. G. Ivatt two years later . |
| 6 | We then laid plans for the next voyage . |
| 7 | Angie Bowie : I actually met David for the first time when he was with feathers at the Roundhouse and I was with the European head of Mercury Records , a gentleman called Lou Reisner . |
| 8 | He became mayor for the first time in October 1261 and was reappointed in October 1262 , years in which the king dominated London , having thrown off the restrictions imposed on him by the Provisions of Oxford in 1258 . |
| 9 | There was little to indicate what a busy area this was to become , with buoyed channels for the large tankers , and the storage tanks and quays of Sullom Voe tucked away neatly out of sight amongst the low hills . |
| 10 | He tried very hard not to cough like he 'd seen people cough in westerns when they tried whisky for the first time , and got away with just clearing his throat rather loudly ( he looked round at the curtains , afraid somebody might have heard ) . |
| 11 | The individual being insufficient for the expression of these values , they might be extended in vicarious forms such as footservants who had nothing to do but to display their own superfluity , or pets , which provided surfaces for the further display of luxury . |
| 12 | The Islamic fundamentalist Welfare Party ( RP-Refah Partisi — led by Necmettin Erbakan ) entered parliament for the first time , with 62 seats , on an agenda which included withdrawal from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) and renunciation of efforts towards EC membership . |
| 13 | More recently , for example , the DES provided funding for the National Curriculum Council ( NCC ) to procure five interactive discs supporting mathematics teaching in both primary and secondary schools . |
| 14 | BHUTAN : AI visited Bhutan for the first time in January at the invitation of King Jigme Wangchuck . |
| 15 | Nijinsky then went to Longchamp as a hot favourite for the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe , but there , under a less-than-brilliant ride from Piggott , he tasted defeat for the first time , beaten a head by Sassafras . |
| 16 | In studying Epicurus , Gassendi found confirmation for the embryonic idea of the Exercises , that sense-experience might give us something worthwhile and valuable even though it can not give us knowledge of necessary causes and of the natures of things . |
| 17 | Cathedral chapters and collegiate churches were full of their relatives and exclusive foundations such as Uzeste , Villan-draut or St Bertrand-de-Comminges provided subsistence for the younger sons of many families . |
| 18 | The Banbury-based design house built cars for the ill-fated Andrea Moda team in 1992 and it is believed Bravo F1 will purchase equipment from the defunct Italian outfit . |
| 19 | A year later Moore captained England for the first time , against Czechoslovakia . |
| 20 | They will also be showered with gifts like top-of-the-range Mercedes cars and luxury apartments if they can spring a World Cup upset and beat England for the first time . |
| 21 | We swopped experiences for the last time . |
| 22 | Saudi Arabia ( whose Petroleum Minister Shaikh Hisham Nazer did not attend the meeting himself , on grounds of " exhaustion " ) entered reservations for the opposite reason , to keep its options open for a possible increase in Saudi production above 8,000,000 bpd ( its allocation being 7,880,000 ) . |
| 23 | Revenues for Scholastic Corporation , the American parent company , rose 13% for the half year to $256.9m . |
| 24 | In November Nelson Mandela , deputy president of the African National Congress , visited Swaziland for the first time since his February release . |
| 25 | Given the comparative naiveté of popular and vernacular idioms , Schoenberg 's liberation of dissonance ( ‘ enlarging the boundaries of the permissible ’ , as Debussy put it ) posed difficulties for the average listener that remain a subject of controversy . |
| 26 | Brother Mark is no outsider to Continental markets , having done his MBA at Insead , the business school at Fontainebleu , which trained executives for the Single Market . |
| 27 | The Commissioners of Woods and Forests invited tenders for the one acre site , and it was sold to the Corporation of the City of London for around £29,000 . |
| 28 | In mid-November a United States congressional delegation visited China for the first time since the massacre . |
| 29 | To have released Meehan from seven years of wrongful imprisonment , recommended a free pardon for him , and then to have arrested and charged Waddell for the same crime would have required a greater degree of resolution than either of them possessed . |
| 30 | Meanwhile the BDA provided ammunition for the coming debates by the publication of another well produced report entitled BSL — Brilsin 's Fourth Language — The case for official recognition of British Sign Language . |