Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] for [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He will now begin the physically and mentally painful process of taking male hormones to establish for the first time his masculinity . |
| 2 | Not only did many teachers in many schools meet in library committees to discuss for the first time their common interests and sometimes contrasting perspectives with other members of subject departments across the school ; they also , for the first time , were forced to consider seriously the pedagogy implied by their present use or misuse of the resources already on offer or their failure to use them . |
| 3 | This is because one or other must be better , and pride can not allow executives to settle for the second best — so why think of it in the first place ? |
| 4 | These were arranged to allow the morning feeding to be carried out and a one-and-a-half hour break for tea allowed many farmers to return for the second feed and to check the stock . |
| 5 | There are different ways to control for a third factor when investigating a relationship between two variables . |
| 6 | If I could just add my thanks to the officers substantial piece of work , which is , I hope going to be used by many members to come for the next year . |
| 7 | The important points to remember for the next series of lessons are these … |
| 8 | Microscopy has come a long way since the 1670s when Antonie van Leewenhoek used his relatively crude instruments to see for the first time the bacteria that inhabit worlds normally hidden from the naked eye . |
| 9 | Sonia Delaunay later expressed this theory in its simplest form : ‘ Pure colours used as planes are juxtaposed in simultaneous contrasts to create for the first time a sense of form , achieved not by clair-obscur , but through the relationship in depth of the colours themselves . ’ |