Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps she has n't heard about the little delay in the proceedings , caused by the contretemps with ben Issachar , and the stint in the tree . |
| 2 | Filled for the first time in twenty years , Lake Eyre became a rich source of food , attracting tens of thousands of birds whose closest usual breeding area is five hundred miles to the south . |
| 3 | Eight months earlier he made an abortive attempt for the title , then held by the Frenchman Franck Nicotra , only to be stopped for the first time in his professional career . |
| 4 | Jasbir Singh was stopped for the second time in two days driving his blue Ford Escort van . |
| 5 | This reluctance to take office is recalled during the annual mayor-making in the council chamber of the town hall . |
| 6 | Over the past decade , digestive enzyme activation by lysosomal hydrolases ( particularly cathepsin B ) has been implicated as the initial event in three forms of experimental pancreatitis . |
| 7 | The prizewinner was presented with a cup , which had been given for the first time in 1987 . |
| 8 | These data are given for the post-war period in Figure 2.1 . |
| 9 | IT IS revered as the last word in wonderful facts , loved by schoolchildren and eggheads alike . |
| 10 | The plates were developed for the first migration in a solvent saturated chamber consisting of chloroform/methanol/ammonium hydrate/water 184:105:7.5:7.5 vol and then dried in cold air . |
| 11 | Together with previous data showing a similar location for the small molecule binding sites in adrenergic receptors , these results suggest that there is a general transmembrane binding site for small molecules in G-protein-coupled receptors , and that non-peptide antagonists can be developed for the analogous domain in other peptide receptors . |
| 12 | The case against Therese Dunne ( 42 ) , a buyer with Dunnes Stores , was halted for the second time in three months yesterday because of the alleged interference . |
| 13 | It was reburied for the last time in 1973 after the number of visitors was found to be too high for the Cotswold village of Woodchester to cope with . |
| 14 | Strikes were legalized for the first time in Bulgaria 's history when on March 6 the National Assembly passed a bill on settling collective industrial disputes . |
| 15 | Now back at Jan Smuts Airport , X-Ray Foxtrot may well have flown for the second time in civvies by the time these words are read . |
| 16 | Flown for the first time in 1958 , the DHC-4 Caribou has seen extensive military service . |
| 17 | The first PC-5A assembled in India was flown for the first time in August 1941 and one report suggests that fifty were delivered to the Indian Air Force from 1942 , but this has not been confirmed . |
| 18 | The high level of technical ability of Roman engineers , together with the well-developed commercial economy , meant that major civil engineering schemes could also be undertaken for the first time in the landscape . |
| 19 | UNEMPLOYMENT in Britain has fallen for the first time in almost three years . |
| 20 | Surely she had n't almost fallen for the oldest trick in the book ! |
| 21 | Originally intended as the principal thoroughfare in the New Town designed by James Craig in 1765 , George Street was lined with not very distinguished buildings . |
| 22 | indeed , Mo Johnston , recalled for the first time in two months , was the only Everton player in the starting line-up who had managed a goal in front of the Goodison public . |
| 23 | Richmond have since sought help from Middlesex in pursuing the issue while Chilcott , dismissed for the fourth time in his career with Bath , awaits the result of tonight 's meeting of the Somerset Disciplinary Committee . |
| 24 | Okapi " 84 was the prototype system developed during the original project in 1983 and 1984 . |
| 25 | But the twists and turns of Currie 's political career are simply a graphic illustration of the fact the SDLP can not be regarded as the Labour Party in Northern Ireland . |
| 26 | Certainly the Devon , in the late eighteenth century , was described by William Marshall ( 1796 ) as being ‘ in size somewhat below the desirable point for the heavier works of husbandry ’ , making up for this deficiency with its agility and exertion so that it was regarded as the best worker in Britain . |
| 27 | Though the Constitution on Revelation at Vatican II has often been regarded as the major landmark in Catholic biblical studies , the real turning point had occurred with Divino Afflante Spiritu two decades earlier . |
| 28 | Kirtana was regarded as the poorest man in the village — but he was fiercely proud and once he had lost his land still refused to work on someone else 's . |
| 29 | The AS/400 is by a long way IBM Corp 's most successful current product line yet Chicago-based System Software Associates Inc , generally regarded as the largest player in the AS/400 applications market , seems to be less than confident about the future of the line . |
| 30 | Inconvertibility is generally regarded as the final stage in the development of the bank note or paper money . |