Example sentences of "of [noun sg] for the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One national newspaper is offering a bottle of champagne for the first reader who can give more information about Norma 's former boyfriend . |
| 2 | A time capsule containing personal messages of hope for the next generation will be buried during closing ceremonies . |
| 3 | of marking-tape for the next upright . |
| 4 | Brundle was out of luck for the second race running . |
| 5 | For those unemployed and with a family , the added worry of responsibility for the next generation must be bewildering . |
| 6 | Even the bookmakers lost faith in the world champion who began the event without the status of favourite for the first time in three years . |
| 7 | On top of that there could be time spent tutoring individual pupils with special needs before they had time to think of preparation for the next day . |
| 8 | It was arranged that I should have only a very small amount of money for the next couple of weeks That was the point : to pretend to be poverty-stricken , to see how we would manage . |
| 9 | After a good night 's sleep in the spacious suites , they should be in an excellent frame of mind for the next day 's play . |
| 10 | For example , you can form a curve in a stalk by positioning it in the required shape and then securing it with tiny pieces of tape for the first couple of days of pressing . |
| 11 | Whether jury after retirement should be allowed to hear tape recording of interview for the first time — practice |
| 12 | We all intend to continue the same sort of programme for the next couple of years and I have said I would like to call in next term and on a periodic basis until our responsibility ceases . |
| 13 | Diana Lanchester did n't catch up with Artemis and her stepmother until Lord Deverill and his huntsmen cast their hounds into a field of kale for the first draw . |
| 14 | It was not until 1966 that the transcontinental standard-gauge line was completed , thereby connecting Sydney to Perth without break of gauge for the first time . |
| 15 | From the Lamb it is on and up again to the Shoulder of Mutton for the last pint , and then the long pull up to the finish at the Dog and Gun . |
| 16 | It was during this period that the boroughs of Bethnal Green , Stepney , Mile End and Poplar witnessed a net loss of population for the first time . |
| 17 | of GDP for the second half of 1991 — that is a high level . |
| 18 | When they left home yesterday , they were full of confidence for the second leg of their play off campaign . |
| 19 | A MANCHESTER United starlet of the 1980s is plotting the downfall of Prescot for the second time in seven days . |
| 20 | COLIN Montgomerie experienced the torture chamber of Baltusrol for the first time yesterday and insisted the time had come for Europe to demolish America 's stranglehold on the U.S. Open . |
| 21 | After weeks of private anguish followed by questionable closed-door lobbying of the leading minds of the Royal College of Science , Darwin found himself forced to go public on the issue of evolution for the first time , when both their papers were read at the Linnean Society of London on that momentous July evening of 1858 . |
| 22 | If an overweight man in his fifties who is a heavy smoker , has a family history of heart disease and is working in a stressful job were to decide to ‘ get fit ’ and invite a colleague for a game of squash for the first time in twenty years , he would be doing just about the best he could to give himself a heart attack . |
| 23 | Anyone seeing such works of sculpture for the first time can not fail to note the harmonious line described through the perfectly proportioned bodies of the men and women portrayed . |
| 24 | A little company in Golden , Colorado has been working on its own version of Unix for the last year and half , this one called Usix . |
| 25 | I made a lot of friends and was introduced to the wonders of television for the first time . |
| 26 | For , when one experiences a piece of furniture for the first time , it is usually through those top two or three microns of surface coating . |
| 27 | ‘ She is now out of plaster for the first time in ten years and can get into a bath , ’ she said . |
| 28 | DIANA stayed out of sight for the third day running on her Scottish holiday at Balmoral yesterday . |
| 29 | DIANA stayed out of sight for the third day running on her Scottish holiday at Balmoral yesterday . |
| 30 | But as the Labour parliamentary front bench scents the thaw , and surveys the possibility of government for the first time in a decade , the party pressures running in favour of detente are increasing . |