Example sentences of "[vb past] for [art] [num ord] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | US Secretary of State James Baker and Israel 's ambassador to the USA Zalman Shoval met for a third round of talks in Washington on Feb. 21 but failed to arrange a compromise agreement on the terms of Israel 's request for loan guarantees worth US$10,000 million to be used for the absorption of new Jewish immigrants . |
| 2 | Scientists working on the jet fusion project at Culham in south Oxfordshire have been protesting today in a bid to influence leading figures in the project as they met for the second day of their full Council Meeting . |
| 3 | On Wednesday 13 February , we met for the second time with pensions as the agenda item . |
| 4 | They met for the first time at the weekend as their two-week-old girls were swopped and handed back to the right mothers . |
| 5 | They met for the first time at the Liverpool Adult Deaf and Dumb Society in Princes Avenue on the 25 April 1890 . |
| 6 | It met for the first time on 25 February 1986 and includes representatives from the Departments of Transport , Environment , Employment , and Trade and Industry ; Kent County Council ; the district councils of ; elected members of Kent local authorities and Parliamentary constituencies ; Eurotunnel ; Transmanche Link ; and British Rail . |
| 7 | They all met for the first time on the show . |
| 8 | They met for the first time on May 13th 1794 , a date which had been specified in the statute . |
| 9 | Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir , in January [ see p. 38710 ] was formed on Feb. 13 under the chairmanship of Col. Mohammed al-Amin Khalifah ; it met for the first time on Feb. 24 in the building which formerly housed the National Assembly — the elected parliament overthrown by Bashir in June 1989 [ see p. 36728 ] . |
| 10 | His remarks , in a Daily Telegraph interview , triggered protests from right-wing Tory MPs and pitched the Cabinet into more controversy as it met for the first time since the summer break . |
| 11 | His remarks , in a Daily Telegraph interview , triggered protests from right-wing Tory MPs and pitched the Cabinet into more controversy as it met for the first time since the summer break . |
| 12 | Such is the force of tradition that when the newly instituted Parliament of Northern Ireland met for the first time in 1921 , its first act was to claim these ‘ undoubted and ancient privileges ’ . |
| 13 | Earlier , the new Conflict Prevention Centre of the CSCE met for the first time in Vienna on July 1-2 , as requested by Austria , and called for an immediate ceasefire and the return of the JNA to barracks , but failed to reach the necessary unanimity on sending a CSCE observer mission . |
| 14 | But as she sipped the hot , reviving brew , she realised for the first time since buying the house just how very quiet it was — eerily quiet . |
| 15 | He seemed embarrassed and stammered for the first time in his English . |
| 16 | Freud moved from Vienna in 1938 , when the Nazis took over , and lived for the last year of his life in London . |
| 17 | She asked for a second helping of spinach . |
| 18 | after the failure of the first implant , asked for the fourth embryo to be thawed and implanted . |
| 19 | Indeed it was historic , in that it provided for the first time for the elimination of an entire class of nuclear arms — land-based missiles of intermediate and shorter range . |
| 20 | Among those taking up the challenge was Haslemere architect Alan Coombes , who entered for the 15th time with his 1914 three-and-a-half horsepower three-speed , 4,500cc Douglas . |
| 21 | Worried managers made the decision after the computer crashed for the second time in 10 days . |
| 22 | The Central Statistical Office said outstanding credit in February rose for the first time in six months . |
| 23 | The first stage of Felix lased for the first time in August 1991 , and the second stage will be operational this summer . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , former Tottenham player Gary Lineker 's Japanese adventure got underway when he trained for the first time with his Grampus Eight teammates at Nagoya yesterday . |
| 25 | Manager Graeme Souness had Steve Nicol and Rob Jones back in training yesterday , while Jan Molby trained for the first time after his ankle injury . |
| 26 | The statutory recognition of auditors ' resignation occurred for the first time in the Companies Act 1976 , prior to which resignation would have constituted a de facto breach of contract . |
| 27 | In conclusion , I 'd like to warn Ben that the Plage route at Buoux is n't his project , but one which was undertaken and tried for the first time by Le Menestrel , and that he has no particular rights over it . |
| 28 | He was arrested and tried for the first time in April 1916 . |
| 29 | Middlesbrough 's new style pairings , tried for the first time against Sheffield last week , gave greater strength in depth , and Knott has named an unchanged team . |
| 30 | Tess generously tried for the last time to interest Angel in the other dairymaids . |