Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] for a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | President Bush had stated on Aug. 2 that only a health problem — which he stressed did not currently exist — would deter him from seeking re-election for a second term . |
| 2 | ( Note that " recreolisation " can also mean the development of a new Creole language from an existing one which has undergone pidginisation for a second time . |
| 3 | They advocated a less sectarian approach to relations with the Labour Party , favouring work for a third Labour Government , rather than the virtually syndicalist policy being put forward by the ILP . |
| 4 | Paula weds star for a second time |
| 5 | Ahmed Abdallah Abderrahman , who had been re-elected President for a second term in September 1984 , was assassinated in November 1989 [ see pp. 37033-34 ] . |
| 6 | ‘ If Prost wants to be called champion for a fourth time he should come back in a sporting way . |
| 7 | Umpire Bird called Waqar for a second over-shoulder-high bouncer to Smith in his next over , and signalled what he had done with laudable clarity . |
| 8 | It was confirmed on Monday that the former army officer had attempted suicide for a third time . |
| 9 | Will he confirm that most of them are tourists , many of whom are travelling north for a last glimpse of a rare species on the point of extinction in Scotland — Scottish Tory Members ? |
| 10 | Remember all this well , so that you do n't get it wrong on the night ; you may not have time for a second performance . |
| 11 | Wartime expansion of milk consumption took place for a third reason that related more to specific practical problems than to a new attitude on the part of policy-makers : simply , the disruptions of wartime made it virtually impossible to implement the pre-war means test criteria , such as the definition of a ‘ necessitous ’ child eligible for free milk , or the distinguishing of those children receiving cheap milk for the under-fives under section 2 of the 1939 Milk Industry Act . |
| 12 | In the presidential elections of January 1991 , Soares was elected President for a second five-year term [ see p. 37968 ] . |
| 13 | Elections take place for a third of the councillors in each year that there is not a county council election . |
| 14 | The St Louis turned round and headed north for a second time . |
| 15 | In 1815 he returned to Karlovci to collect material for a second song book , which later inspired a glowing review from Jakob Grimm , in which he compared the Serbian love songs to Solomon 's Song of Songs and wrote that the ‘ Serbs are by virtue of their language … the most blessed with poems , songs and stories , and it looks as if the good God had , by this rich gift of popular poetry , wished to make up to them for their lack of books . ’ |
| 16 | For those reasons as I , have I , hoped made plain , it seems to me that the general scheme provided by Mrs is the one that ought to be adopted , however in my view when Mrs also makes provision for a second carer for some three hours a day that is well over egging the pudding , if I may adopt a phrase used by Mr at one stage during the case , I feel sure that in practice the two resident carers would not simply say well I 'm on duty from eight am on Monday till twelve midday on Thursday and I shall do nothing during the rest of the week , I think that living in the household for , at |
| 17 | As part of the £52.5m scheme a farm bridge will be demolished to make room for a fourth lane between junction 20 at Lymm and Junction 21a for the M62 . |
| 18 | However , his appearance had been that of an eighteen-year-old , which makes nonsense for a second time of the press claims that Lord Haw-Haw was as puny in appearance as he had been in his human sympathies . |
| 19 | In all , the Package provides material for a first level of study for the teaching and learning of English as a foreign or second language . |