Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A NEW blood vessel ‘ drill ’ which can relieve blocked arteries supplying the heart has been used successfully for the first time by surgeons in Britain . |
| 2 | Local officials said that the move could result in the police and army being used locally for the first time , but reflected members ' anger and frustration . |
| 3 | The Green Party won representation locally for the first time with 14 seats ; and Sinn Féin won seven seats ( 10 in 1985 ) . |
| 4 | He had ‘ guested ’ for the Palace effectively during the 1st World War and proved his ability in the best possible way for Northampton Town against us in the two seasons immediately after it so , when Manager Edmund Goodman needed a duality centre-forward to replace Bert Menlove , who had moved to 1st Division Sheffield United in March 1922 , he acted with decision and haste . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , it does provide a simple demonstration of a problem that dogs all our stratigraphical thinking , and as the palaeontologist in question was my student ( and I visited the area with him ) my inclinations are wholly for the second interpretation in this case . |
| 6 | ‘ Ah , but I should have acted six years ago , I should have taken you then when you were vulnerable in your confusion — as I supposed — involved with a recently married man , presumably for the first time , and not knowing what it was you felt for me because you were so sure Jones was all you wanted . |
| 7 | Summerchild and Serafin had met , presumably for the first time , on March 7th . |
| 8 | Not only did they bring stretches of water into country often lacking in them , as in many parts of the Midlands , with consequent changes in bird and plant life , but they also brought — mostly for the first time — aqueducts , cuttings and embankments , tunnels , locks , lifts and inclined planes , and many attractive bridges , and they greatly influenced the growth and appearance of many towns . |
| 9 | THE first Norwegian whalers have put to sea to hunt commercially for the first time since 1987 in defiance of a global moratorium . |
| 10 | Dissent in the county nonetheless survived powerfully through the eighteenth century in the persons of Phillip Doddridge and his followers . |
| 11 | Certainly the geographical scope of European and European-style diplomacy expanded strikingly during the nineteenth century . |
| 12 | He hooked badly off the second tee , was unplayable and took six . |
| 13 | Somewhere between the first drink on Christmas Eve ( at around 5pm ) and the first cup of tea on Christmas morning ( at around 5am ) , the fear evaporates , leaving in its place a wonderful feeling of contentment . |
| 14 | Jinny remembered Bella 's words and understood them properly for the first time . |
| 15 | And for those few hours after she got home she found she could talk to her mother properly for the first time in over two years . |
| 16 | You gaze at each other properly for the first time . |
| 17 | Her mind was free to appreciate it properly for the first time . |
| 18 | Studying him now , dispassionately , without the emotional blindness of the aftermath of her accident , or the initial shock of finding that he was last night 's rescuer , it was like seeing him properly for the first time … |
| 19 | Sighing , she swivelled round , looking at the cabin properly for the first time . |
| 20 | I remember he laughed and I noticed properly for the first time what a lovely blue his eyes were and a little thrill went through me . |
| 21 | Morse looked at her now — perhaps properly for the first time . |
| 22 | And now to a village where the church bells have been rung properly for the first time in twenty years . |
| 23 | A REVOLUTIONARY new Siberian surgery technique could help people in Teesside suffering from bone problems walk properly for the first time . |
| 24 | Although Hinrich and Senta Medau are no longer with us , their work and inspiration live on through the second generation , while in this country the Medau Society celebrates its 35th Anniversary in 1987 . |
| 25 | Rupert Hall 's short history of the college guides us through the years leading up to this event , then on through the 20th century to recent times . |
| 26 | A new theory linking familiarity , complexity , and liking for two special classes of objects will be tested rigorously for the first time . |
| 27 | Domestic exports performed badly during the first half of 1990 , but growth in the re-export trade partly compensated . |
| 28 | Swanage suffered badly during the last war , chiefly from ‘ tip-and-run ’ raids by bombers swooping in from the sea . |
| 29 | You remember I said to you that the only thing any witnesses could agree on about the first bloke who killed himself was his staring eyes ? ’ |
| 30 | On about the last trip of the night-shift , around dawn , the EMU on which he was working was approaching Kirkhill , the terminal of that particular service . |