Example sentences of "for the [adj] [noun sg] [subord] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he noticed an open gate and beyond it a side door which he approached ; here he was told that his tickets were only good for the front door while the side doors were reserved for members . |
| 2 | He says the world must examine the future for the Middle East when the Gulf crisis is over . |
| 3 | GERMANY 'S ruling and opposition parties , reeling from the largest electoral success for the far Right since the Second World War , called yesterday for urgent joint talks to prevent further haemorrhaging of their support . |
| 4 | Five target fish were nominated for the second day as the anglers struggled to overcome persistent torrential rain and buffeting winds . |
| 5 | But the small case load of the House of Lords and the expense of bringing a second appeal have produced suggestions that there is no need for the second appeal if the Court of Appeal were to be free to reconsider its own previous decisions . |
| 6 | UNEMPLOYMENT is poised to top three million for the second time because the quality of jobs created in the late 1980s was poor , according to a report by the Employment Policy Institute . |
| 7 | Latham and Andrew Jones put on 127 for the second wicket before the opener was run out when his partner failed to respond to a call for a run . |
| 8 | The road-builders ' diet , mainly cheese and biscuits , was monotonous , but for the average soldier if the beer supply was adequate everything was all right and Wade met the problem of a lack of local supplies in a typically sensible way , as he reported to London in 1733 |
| 9 | The only change in the intervening period had been that the government had prepared for the threatened dispute while the Samuel Commission deliberated about the way in which to make the industry more efficient and profitable . |
| 10 | For example , some educational provision was made for the handicapped child once the universal state education system showed the need . |
| 11 | The Times ( 30 October 1900 ) would harp on the same theme , announcing that ‘ Every week some incident shows that certain parts of London are more perilous for the peaceable wayfarer than the remote districts of Calabria , Sicily , or Greece , once the classic haunts of brigands ’ . |
| 12 | While he persists in looking for the golden egg before the chicken is even hatched the terrorists will continue to exact a mounting price in blood for his dithering approach to security . |
| 13 | We pointed out earlier that such a proposal can not be accepted for the prenominal case because the prenominal and the clause structures are far from equivalent ; they admit different ranges of adjective , and the relation of the adjective to the head noun is different in the two cases . |
| 14 | However , in that particular experiment there was no significant difference between conditions in memory performance for the peripheral detail although the central detail was better recalled and recognized in the arousal group . |
| 15 | She had never liked Mona Rigby — who would n't have been chosen twice for the coveted role if the staff had known as much about her as did Brenda — and she was n't sure that she really liked Miss Foley . |
| 16 | The stock market is unlikely to have much allure for the small investor although the start of the electricity privatisation may provide a temporary fillip . |
| 17 | Last year the company lost £30,000 worth of fish bound for the Spanish market when the consignment was blocked for three days outside Toulouse by French lorry drivers protesting about restrictions on the hours they could drive . |
| 18 | Certain functions are administered by local authorities as agents for the Central Government when the cost is wholly reimbursed , e.g. the cost of Rent Officers . |
| 19 | Alone in bed I wondered for the first time whether the girl had been truly dead when we threw her into the river . |
| 20 | Now , for the first time since the early Seventies the left has no power to tether the leadership on anything significant . |
| 21 | 3 STEVE BULL scored twice as England finished their European Championship Under-21 qualifying campaign with a flourish in Jastrzebie Zdruj , but they are still likely to miss out on a quarter-final place for the first time since the competition began 13 years ago . |
| 22 | Tens of thousands of East Berliners streamed to the West , unhindered for the first time since the Wall was put up 28 years ago . |
| 23 | For the first time since the survey was started six years ago , retailers , wholesalers and companies in the motor trade expect to cut investment in the coming year . |
| 24 | For the first time since the survey was started six years ago , retailers , wholesalers and companies in the motor trade expect to cut investment in the coming year . |
| 25 | The Christian Democrats got only 38.7% of the vote , against 45.1% four years ago , and are being booted out of the government for the first time since the state was founded 45 years ago . |
| 26 | Home ownership in America is falling for the first time since the Depression , just as the savings-and-loan collapse has made the government the largest single owner of property after foreclosing on bankrupt thrifts . |
| 27 | The children turned to face one another for the first time since the pastor had started to tell the story of the massacre . |
| 28 | The 1,000-strong Congress , which was meeting for the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union , is the only body in the country that can change the constitution and other basic laws . |
| 29 | The Northamptonshire mansion reopens to the public this weekend for the first time since the death of his father . |
| 30 | Its aim is to promote a reunion of Czech Jews for the first time since the war . |