Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am optimistic now that we 've got a stable base for the next year , and I 'm always optimistic for the year after ! |
| 2 | Mr Cooney said the reason Northern Ireland had received only £1.04bn European funding for the next seven years , while the Republic got £7.8bn , was because the province did not have its own negotiators in Brussels . |
| 3 | Er I mean the er it 's er , course there are three orders that we are looking at tonight , it includes the er the third order er in relation not to boundaries but to the registration of overseas er voters to enable them to vote er in this , in this er election within U K constituencies and therefore that 's why the position that Mr David Robeddow as the chairman of Conservatives abroad er in Monte Carlo is relevant , er but also bec because of course the purpose of the European parliament for the first time as it will go through under these new boundaries , now is that they will be able to remedy some of that democratic deficit . |
| 4 | It will then go to the European Parliament for the second reading . |
| 5 | Wales were convinced that they were one up on Scotland in having already experienced Joel Dume in their England match , while the Sassenachs ' top brass reckoned Scotland would be at a definite disadvantage for the first 20 minutes . |
| 6 | It says a great deal for Saxon resilience that the Sussex settlements do not seem to have reverted to wholesale waste , and the pressure was greatly liked in 1017 when Cnut was elected king of England and the country passed under a Scandinavian aegis for the next half century or so . |
| 7 | The troubles which surrounded the bishop 's authority in the 1570s were matched by growing economic uncertainty for the next eighty years or so . |
| 8 | Whereas in the 1980s the reforming emphasis was on market economics without political openness ( perestroika without glasnost ) , the China of the mid-to-late 1990s was driven by a concern for political openness for the first time in its history . |
| 9 | Even when these insects adopt a very different existence for the first part of their lives , they do not change their form very radically . |
| 10 | Another sees Riesenhuber in charge of a new ministry of the environment , where he could head off the political challenge of the Green movement which enters the West German parliament for the first time after the election successes . |
| 11 | The Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral Concerts Society has scooped a top award for the sixth year on the run . |
| 12 | According to the Far Eastern Economic Review of June 27 , the aim of the new strategy , the New Development Policy ( NDP — for March release of working paper see p. 38100 ) , was to provide a theoretical framework for the Second Outline Perspective Plan ( OPP2 ) for 1991-2000 . |
| 13 | The so-called New Development Policy ( NDP ) was devised to provide a theoretical framework for the Second Outline Perspective Plan ( OPP2 ) for 1991-2000 , the first phase of Mahathir 's plan to build Malaysia into a fully developed state by 2020 . |
| 14 | BGS provided much of the logistical support for the first international conference arranged under the auspices of IGCP Project 294 , Very Low Grade Metamorphism , which was held at the University of Manchester , 5–6 July 1990 . |
| 15 | In this way lengthy chains of behaviour can be developed with any one event providing the terminating condition for one action and the enabling condition for the next ( see Kelleher , 1966 ) . |
| 16 | Then it is across the road to the social club for the third pint , before tackling the first of the long uphill stretches to the Lamb at Denholme and the fourth pint . |
| 17 | ‘ Just imagine him standing by the side of you , with his hands crossed before him in a Miss Mollyish style , his intended bow half a courtsey , his fat arms and legs assisting , as in duty bound ; his side glances at you every ten seconds , while he softly , sweetly and insinuatingly informs you — that he has made the arts his peculiar study for the last eight years , and that he flatters himself , by his unremitting study he has greatly contributed to their improvement ; that he came to Ambleside for that purpose ( 't is a great big lie — he came solely to get a living for himself and family , but he is too proud to acknowledge this ) and hopes that the time has been employed with equal advantage to the arts and to himself . ’ |
| 18 | It was a derby match to remember , especially if you 're a United fan ; defeating the old enemy for the first time in years . |
| 19 | It was a derby match to remember , especially if you 're a United fan ; defeating the old enemy for the first time in years . |
| 20 | The image of the disastrous goalkeeper has haunted Scottish football for the last 30 years . |
| 21 | Participants will be invited to submit a five minute script for the second session . |
| 22 | WASHINGTON , D.C. After the most highly publicised recruitment process in the history of American museums , the National Gallery of Art 's Board of Trustees announced on 28 April that Earl A. Powell III will take over from departing director J. Carter Brown , who has led the fifty-one year old institution for the last twenty-three years . |
| 23 | As well as campaigning against embryo research , it plans to introduce an abortion amendment to the Bill , thereby forcing a free vote for the first time since abortion was legalised in 1967 . |
| 24 | Students in possession of any Morrissey records are charged a higher rate of interest on their college loans • A hitman is hired to hit the Hit Man and Her as well as all the bloody dancers ( especially that git who 's been wearing the same crappy wig for the last five mindbendingly-dull years ) . |
| 25 | The detailed work for the first drafts of the Information memorandum can usefully be carried out by non-MAS staff using example documentation . |
| 26 | Towards morning , Peter dreamed the old dream for the first time in months if not years . |
| 27 | His uncle was fend of French fries and he tells the empty corridor for the hundredth time that they are called chips over there and they are eaten with vinegar . |
| 28 | Reports also suggested that the delegation 's visit had been timed to coincide with the period marking the start of US budgetary procedures allocating foreign assistance for the next financial year . |
| 29 | Mohammed has a son , Mustapha , who was a lively boy for the first eight years of his life , then some cerebral bug hit him . |
| 30 | Osijek , Vinkovci and Pakrac in the east experienced bombardments of unprecedented severity during the night of Sept. 11-12 , and Kostajnica ( on the Croatia-Bosnia border 60 miles south of Zagreb ) fell to Serbian forces on Sept. 12 , bringing a section of Bosnia into the Serbian zone for the first time . |