Example sentences of "for [art] [num ord] [noun sg] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Nominations had to be in by 11.30 a.m. on Monday 26 July [ 1965 ] for the first ballot to open twenty-four hours later .
2 TNT prize for the first team to reach ten goals in the competition .
3 They were also allowed for the first time to subsidize denominational primary schools .
4 The US-Soviet strategic arms reduction talks ( START — see p. 37223 ) resumed in Geneva on Jan. 22 with the signing of a new agreement allowing both sides for the first time to inspect each other 's nuclear warheads .
5 A clutch of companies involved in technology from the Soviet space programmes has been given permission for the first time to deal direct with foreigners .
6 The UK government is for the first time to publish environmental conditions attached to the granting of oil drilling licenses .
7 Sufficient data stretching back to the mid-sixteenth century have now been assembled to make it possible for the first time to study short-term as well as long-term characteristics of demographic behaviour at the micro level .
8 The Economic League report on The Present Trend of Communism in Britain alleged that " the Communist Party has made full use of the Left Book Club , enabling it for the first time to make effective contact with some 50,000 members of the middle class " .
9 It concerned only new developments and enabled local authorities for the first time to make town-planning schemes ‘ as respects any land which is in course of development or appears likely to be used for building purposes ’ .
10 According to Constanze , he received the news with painful resignation , saying that the situation would have enabled him for the first time to have sufficient leisure to write what he wanted , and to justify his growing reputation ; but instead only death awaited him .
11 Obviously the progress made in educational thinking just prior to 1973 , and in its interpretation , had been quite dramatic and the way was clear for the first time to develop long-term objectives for education .
12 Le Monde reported on April 26 that the government had decided to reverse previous government policy and for the first time to pay 6,200,000 marks to an Israeli foundation for holocaust survivors .
13 But Steve Lunn 's superb solo effort four minutes from time , the best goal of the match , brought Shilton out of his dugout for the first time to summon all hands on deck .
14 This alternative process made it possible for the first time to obtain 1- tert -alkyl , 1-cycloalkyl , 1-aryl , 1-heteroaryl and 1-aminoquinolone and azaquinolonecarboxylic acid derivatives by combined acylation and arylation ( aracylation ) of enamines and enhydrazines with o -halo-(het)aroyl halides .
15 The Estonian parliament agreed to postpone discussion of provisions of its election law amid disagreement over demands by Russians for a second chamber to represent local minorities .
16 The Estonian parliament agreed to postpone discussion of provisions of its election law amid disagreement over demands by Russians for a second chamber to represent local minorities .
17 When the Berlin Wall was built in 1961 and the first killings began , one might have expected these siren voices calling for a third way to fall silent .
18 Chola went for a third time to fetch some water from the river while Mina and Kāli set to work on the outside of the house .
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