Example sentences of "but [verb] for the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he did not want to involve British troops and planes in action , but admitted for the first time that it was a possibility . |
| 2 | Bufi 's " government of national stability " was announced on June 12 , including PLA members but incorporating for the first time the DP as well as the Republican Party , the Social Democratic Party and the Agrarian Party ; nine members were non-party . |
| 3 | My philosophy is that if somebody beats you then he 's lucky ; that on the day , your best was n't good enough — but wait for the next time round . |
| 4 | And the most dangerous players in the world today are those athletic and financially secure ones who calculate risks with the astuteness of a bank manager , but go for the first prize , if possible , and the subsequent contracts , knowing that if the high-flying fairway wood does n't clear a ditch at Augusta , they can still enjoy a steak dinner tonight , thanks to a pitch and single putt ! |
| 5 | That will be the convenient and sensible course because what such a defendant is seeking is not so much to correct an error in the judge 's decision , for which appeals to this court are designed , but to have for the first time a hearing at which his evidence is considered . |
| 6 | To illustrate , we will reconsider the last example and assume that the individual did not close his position after five days but waited for the last trading day which was the following day . |
| 7 | Also in this category , but published for the first time in this volume , is the article Jackie And Just Seventeen which not only records changes in the content of girls ' magazines over the 80s ( since McRobbie 's original analysis of the late 70s , also included here ) but registers theoretical developments as well through its attention to the ways in which girls as readers both construct their own meanings and interact with the texts . |
| 8 | This was , in fact , still many months of fighting away , but with the loss of the northern territories , the die was all but cast for the Second Republic . |