Example sentences of "[noun] was for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is vital never to grant them absolute rights over nomenclature , or you will end up with a child called Aspirin Muesli Harris as poor Tom was for the first week of his life , until it was overruled as being pagan by the Irish Catholic nurse . |
| 2 | But to be made a deacon was for the first time to profess before a multitude that the soul undertook the cause of God in a special ministry , and for the first time to feel sent to an apostolic work . |
| 3 | Lawrence Stone has put forward a highly influential argument that the eighteenth century saw the rise of the companionate marriage , and that affection between husband and wife was for the first time widely judged as important as economic considerations in marriage This argument has been widely challenged in relation to all classes by historians examining various kinds of evidence from the seventeenth century and earlier The belief that affection as an ideal of marriage was basically invented by the middle and upper classes in the eighteenth century has , however , led some critics into simplistic views . |
| 4 | Anne Lister was for the last fourteen years of her life the owner and occupant of Shibden Hall in Halifax . |
| 5 | By 1988 Britain was for the first time selling more to the EEC than to the rest of the world ( £47 billion out of £93.5 billion at 1991 prices ) . |
| 6 | Although Japan was for the first time in a dominant position vis-à-vis China , the problem of disputed influence in Korea remained . |
| 7 | In 1989 the global nature of the drift-net plague was for the first time widely recognised . |
| 8 | The invitation was for the 19th . |
| 9 | During the Thirties when the streamlined fleet was introduced , the driver was for the first time provided with his own driving cab , complete with folding seat . |
| 10 | The month began when the new lunar crescent was for the first time visible again after sunset . |
| 11 | This poor soul , pallid and puffy on his bed after desperate vomiting , sick and quiet and unregarded ever since , spent and ulcered mind and spirit by what he had so mistakenly undertaken , Jerome was for the first time wholly pitiful . |