Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of these are now desolate except for the fifteenth century Church of the Pantanassa , still a convent , and a few others such as the fourteenth century Church of Evangelistria , S. Sophia , c. 1350 , and the fourteenth century Church of Peribleptos . |
| 2 | Although the night-time itching has been put down to the nocturnal habits of the mite , it is interesting that for the first few weeks of infestation , when the mites are presumably just as active , there are often no symptoms at all . |
| 3 | The price for the first seems high and for the second low for a house with six acres and a lodge , but it used to be the headquarters of British Coal 's opencast mining subsidiary , which can not have done it any good . |
| 4 | So he decides to be cautious and for the first few laps , he just sits and waits . |
| 5 | The new trolleybus service was numbered 654 and for the first time there was a through service crossing the main road at West Croydon . |
| 6 | Early on a wet Sunday morning outside Yaroslavl station , in the centre of Moscow , my journey was complete and for the first time in 10 days I was alone . |
| 7 | I was totally conscious and for the first time since my labour started I felt relaxed . |
| 8 | Troubled by a cold and a painful left shoulder , he managed only a 73 and for the third time in four starts missed the cut . |
| 9 | But the question had been unwelcome and for the first time some of his cockiness seemed to have drained from him . |
| 10 | His voice had deepened , the words becoming more guttural as for the first time since she 'd met him he seemed to struggle with a language which was not his own . |
| 11 | Let us make sure that for the next two weeks he still can not prove . ’ |
| 12 | At the beginning of the 19th century the condition of the agricultural workers was desperately poor and for the next forty years wages did not improve . |
| 13 | The gallery 's catalogues of its French collections are currently undergoing thorough revision : that for the seventeenth to eighteenth centuries currently dates from 1957 and for the nineteenth from 1970 . |
| 14 | Noel 's colleagues all wish him well and the very best of health in his retirement , which fortunately is only partial since for the next few years he remains with us as Research Professor in German . |
| 15 | The equaliser brought more boost to Town , than United and for the first time in the game , the Oxford goal was under pressure . |
| 16 | The House of Lords , not for the first or for the last time , held that ‘ determination ’ should not be construed as including everything which purported to be a determination but was not , and so the court was not precluded from deciding that the order of the Commission was a nullity . |
| 17 | ‘ The overall results are slightly worse than for the first three months of 1992 , with definite signs of the recessionary effect becoming widespread nationally , ’ said Manpower spokeswoman Lilian Bennett . |
| 18 | All the intercepts are significantly greater than zero except for the first sub-period when it is significantly lower than zero . |
| 19 | Residential work declined for the third successive month , although it has to be said that the average monthly value since the start of the year is higher than for the last five months of 1992 . |
| 20 | He never came to the hotel drunk and for the first time for years worked almost to a routine . |
| 21 | He 'd been making some records but they were n't successful and for the first few weeks after I 'd met him and decided to work with him , I was listening to songs that he 'd written , and was in the process of writing , and came to the conclusion that he was not essentially a singles artist . |
| 22 | Andrew Beattie was allowed a visit by his wife for a few minutes around half-past one and for the first time he learned that no strike organisers had been arrested other than in the Rathcoole district . |
| 23 | The Gongsters are complete for the 3 years 48–51 except for the first two issues . |
| 24 | The evidence for this stage , Morgan and Engels believed , was stronger than for the first two stages . |
| 25 | The company was formed in 1982 and for the last six years , under the name of Touring Europe , has been mainly involved in taking plays in English to the Continent of Europe . |
| 26 | His patience was dwindling and for the first time in four years of marriage she could see he was on the point of losing his temper . |
| 27 | The voting procedure for the second ballot will be the same as for the first save that paragraph 14 shall not apply . |
| 28 | Role B : Keep the details of what you were doing the same as for the last interview . |
| 29 | On the sons and daughters of the farming family was imposed the strict necessity of abstaining from sexual activity other than for the first born , so as not to impair the integrity of land succession . |
| 30 | Other than for the first flight of the day , engine run-ups are not deemed necessary because the aircraft 's engines are almost always warm , so off-chock to take-off times are often three minutes or less . |