Example sentences of "of [noun pl] for [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first meeting will be an opportunity for those interested in teacher research to meet , to formally establish the group and create a programme of activities for the next year . |
| 2 | Of birds for the first time ever heard , |
| 3 | In December 1989 the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) , following the visit of an IMF delegation , decided to delay disbursement of funds for the second phase of the structural adjustment programme agreed with Equatorial Guinea in December 1988 [ see p. 36923 ] . |
| 4 | and at the end of the national hunt racing season … celebrations for Gloucestershire 's top stables … trainer David Nicholson reached a century of winners for the first time and champion jockey Richard Dunwoody finished with 173 … a record year for them both |
| 5 | Resolved that this meeting concurs in Apinion [ sic ] with the said Committee — that it will be necessary to carry on the Business of this Institution as perfectly as possible , that there should be two Professors appointed & that as soon as the proposed plan for the College is executed , which , from the Encouragement already given , 't is hoped will be speedily accomplished — The members will avail themselves of the Offer made by the Committee and refer the Merits of Candidates for the second professorship to their investigation . |
| 6 | The panel of judges for the first award included Eleanor Bron , the actress and writer ; Penelope Lively , the novelist and a past winner of the Booker Prize ; and John Mortimer , QC , the novelist and playwright and chairman of the Royal Society of Literature . |
| 7 | She also looked great — out of dungarees for the first time and into a becomingly simple black dress . |
| 8 | There was a certain rapprochement though , as Mary came down with her things in the back-pack Rufus had lent her and wearing jeans and a pair of sandals for the first time for days . |
| 9 | We 've got a lot of buyers for a first sale and it 's all good quality holly and mistletoe this year . |
| 10 | The seminars , which will be held in Dundee and Glasgow , will focus on the second phase of general SVQs , though they may also include workshops for centres wanting to pilot the first batch of awards for the first time . |
| 11 | Given an allowable candidate word which is known to be able to start a compound or commonly used phrase , if the next part of the compound occurs in the list of alternatives for the next word position ( and so on until the end of the compound ) , then it is likely that the alternatives that make the compound are the correct choices . |
| 12 | The facts behind the selection of poems for the first volume may prove elusive . |
| 13 | He was appointed to the state 's Superior Court in 1978 , to its Supreme Court in 1983 , and to the federal Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in 1990 . |
| 14 | The 1990 decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Damodar Bulk Carriers Ltd. v. People 's Insurance Company of China makes the effect of this distinction eminently clear . |
| 15 | In March 1985 , the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit addressed these issues in Re Anschuetz & Co . |
| 16 | The Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit , reconsidering Re Anschuetz on remand from the Supreme Court in the light of Aérospatiale , declined to re-interpret the Aérospatiale decision as requiring first resort to the Convention or as sanctioning the use of Blackmun J. 's tripartite analysis . |
| 17 | The US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit on Sept. 22 struck down a Louisiana statute which prohibited abortion in most instances and which provided draconian penalties for doctors who performed illegal abortions . |
| 18 | On July 8 the Russian President Boris Yeltsin had announced at a press conference in Munich after talks with leaders of the Group of Seven ( G-7 ) industrialized countries [ see p. 38990 ] that Russia had made a political decision to withdraw an estimated 130,000 troops from the Baltic states , and that an agreement " on a schedule for the withdrawal of troops for the second half of this year and for 1993 " would be signed " soon " . |
| 19 | Their most pressing concern was the seven-year-old Iran-Iraq war , and the Palestine question was pushed to the bottom of the list of priorities for the first time in the history of the Arab League . |
| 20 | The quality council is monitoring the progress of all the teams and considering the subjects and composition of teams for the next series of projects . |
| 21 | She sobs loudly in his arms , relieved of the company of strangers for the first time . |
| 22 | But it wo n't be that much because I 've been out of things for the last year and before that I had shut my eyes anyway . |
| 23 | Under the Government 's fund-holding initiative , doctors have control over their own spending on behalf of patients for the first time . |
| 24 | You 'll need to buy £20 worth of materials for the second project . |
| 25 | The colonisation of new land , and its demarcation into private estates , created thousands of miles of boundaries for the first time . |
| 26 | He was able to provide information on age , sex , and growth of whales for the first time without killing , touching , marking , or molesting a single animal . |
| 27 | The Reform Act of 1832 laid the foundations of electoral democracy by tidying up the system — for instance , getting rid of ‘ rotten boroughs ’ , small or almost non-existent places that could return MPs — and setting up a register of voters for the first time . |
| 28 | Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu , EC Commission President Jacques Delors and Ruud Lubbers , the Netherlands Prime Minister who held the presidency of the EC Council of Ministers for the second half of 1991 , held their first formal EC-Japanese summit in The Hague on July 18 immediately after the London G-7 summit [ see pp. 38321-22 ] . |
| 29 | Late on Sept. 20 UK Prime Minister John Major ( whose country held the presidency of the EC Council of Ministers for the second half of 1992 ) announced that he would call an emergency summit to discuss ratification of the Treaty and to " deal with the particular problems in the foreign exchange markets in recent days , that have revealed shortcomings in the exchange rate mechanism system " . |
| 30 | John Major , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom , which held the presidency of the EC Council of Ministers for the second half of 1992 , declared that Edinburgh would " be remembered as the summit that put the Community back together " . |