Example sentences of "[v-ing] for [art] [num ord] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CHRISTO VAN RENSBURG , one of the world 's leading doubles players , went on court at the Albert Hall yesterday believing he would be competing for the last time in the official season-ending doubles championship . |
| 2 | CHRISTO VAN RENSBURG , one of the world 's leading doubles players , went on court at the Albert Hall yesterday believing he would be competing for the last time in the official season-ending doubles championship . |
| 3 | It can link HLCA payments ( including for the first time in the UK , for dairy cows ) to agreed stocking levels on a hectarage ( not headage ) basis . |
| 4 | Though phrasing is sympathetic , and Masur allows a natural easing for the third theme in the first movement , this is not among warmer readings of this much recorded work . |
| 5 | The Literary Lionisers , having commanded their maids and valets , if they had them , to unpack , or if they had not , scurried through this tedious task themselves , were gathering for the first event of the week , the promenade around Dickens 's Broadstairs . |
| 6 | Apologizing for the first time for some of those tactics , he expressed regret over the " naked cruelty " of certain remarks directed at Dukakis . |
| 7 | A critic walking for the first time into a gallery may describe a colour in a picture as blue ; it will have been the scrupulous task of a conservator to have established that the particular colour in question was Prussian blue , and thus can not date before the eighteenth century . |
| 8 | He hopes to be challenging for the first team by Christmas . |
| 9 | Second time around was more impressive with the Swilers overwhelmed 61–7 as outside-half Gareth Rees provided four tries and eight conversions before returning for a second season of club rugby in France . |
| 10 | Skinner continued in that appointment at Munsterlager and Catterick , before returning for a third tour in Northern Ireland , during which he was again mentioned in despatches . |
| 11 | And the whole market — dominated by six firms including Argos and Great Universal Stores — is shrinking for the first time in years . |
| 12 | Bidding for the second lot of the sale , a thirteenth-century oak cathedral chest with iron strapwork from Durham , tripled the high estimate to reach FFr1.1 million ( £114,300 ; $198,900 ) , establishing a world record for English oak furniture . |
| 13 | Nesting for the first time in the delta since the 16th century , the flamingos had flown up the coast from the southern province of Malaga after finding their traditional nesting ground in the Fuente de Piedra lake had dried up after a prolonged drought . |
| 14 | The deal took place at a public inquiry in 1981 , when the owner , Wedgwood , was applying for a second time for consent to demolish . |
| 15 | Well , what is a man to do , deprived at a stroke of his habitual daily employment for forty years and living for the first time with his widowed younger sister who is always surveying him for signs of disorder , be they physical , emotional or sartorial , and nagging him about unpunctuality for meals . |
| 16 | The fact was that Algy had been living for the last year with a working-class architect called Len in a basement flat in Maida Vale . |
| 17 | Soviet military inspectors , acting for the first time under the CFE Treaty , completed inspections of French and UK military sites ( the latter in Germany ) on Sept. 20 and 21 [ for Soviet inspections under INF treaty see p. 38217 ] . |
| 18 | They 're hoping retired people , or those looking for a second home in the country will stump up the cash . |
| 19 | Many bright ideas — and failed ideas looking for a second lease on life — are being put forward as ways of converting weapon-grade plutonium into a form too awkward for the weapon-minded to bother with . |
| 20 | The unions said that they were looking for the second week in January to begin an all-out stoppage . |
| 21 | The Marines swarmed into the tunnel like bubbles disappearing down a plughole , Mortimer at their head , eyes bright , looking for the first sign of the opposition . |
| 22 | Hitch asked , looking for the first sign of their quarry . |
| 23 | Tubby was sitting up straight , shoulders back , head raised , looking for the first time in his visit like the confident soldier he had been . |
| 24 | In the '60s Scottish football was awash with stories of ‘ scouts ’ — the often unpaid enthusiasts who scoured the pitches of school-boy Scotland looking for the next generation of international talent . |
| 25 | While waiting , she gazed solemnly at the sinister Bridge of Sighs a few yards away and thought of the prisoners who 'd gazed out of its thickly grilled windows , looking for the last time on the beauties of Venice before they were incarcerated — or executed for causing the displeasure of powerful nobles . |
| 26 | The agenda for the Environment Committee , meeting for the first time since 1985 , included a comprehensive review of environmental policymaking in the past three decades . |
| 27 | ‘ My name 's Stirling , ’ he said , almost as though we were meeting for the first time outside his Club in London . |
| 28 | Meeting for the first time in Bonn in January ( see Nature 361 , 576 ; 1993 ) , the councils are trying to make EC-supported international research programmes more efficient and have scheduled a meeting in London in October to discuss the issue . |
| 29 | Meeting for the first time in private on Nov. 4 the Premier , Gen. Hau Pei-tsun , and legislators from the opposition Democratic Progressive Party ( DPP ) , agreed to ease political confrontation in the Legislative Yuan or parliament , the scene of considerable violence in recent months [ or DPP filibustering attempts in legislature see p. 38531 ] . |
| 30 | A Creative and Performing Arts Panel , meeting for the first time in February of that year , became a Board , and from the outset was looking at proposals such as that from Middlesex Polytechnic for a BA and BA(Hons) in Performance Arts , an ambitious proposal which was greeted with reservations but encouragement , as was a proposal for such a degree in Creative Arts at Trent Polytechnic . |