Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The statutory recognition of auditors ' resignation occurred for the first time in the Companies Act 1976 , prior to which resignation would have constituted a de facto breach of contract . |
| 2 | For example , a recent act of Parliament has for the first time enabled citizens to own and operate radio stations . |
| 3 | For example , a recent act of Parliament has for the first time enabled citizens to own and operate radio stations . |
| 4 | I asked at the meeting of the city board and I asked on more than one occasion , and did n't get a proper answer , what the labour group intended to do with the three point two million pounds that will build up in reserve say for the next three years . |
| 5 | Here is the chance to see the direction alternating for the first time . |
| 6 | Worried managers made the decision after the computer crashed for the second time in 10 days . |
| 7 | That day , April 29 , twenty Spitfires were safely delivered to Renfrew with one each on April 30 and May 1 for a total of 52 aircraft which constituted 100% of the complement assigned for the second delivery to Malta . |
| 8 | In most cat books , the figure given for the first domestication of the cat is between 3,500 and 4,500 years ago . |
| 9 | B — can scarcely rise , the referee is in a fit of temper , attacks P — with stool , P — chases him round ring — gong goes for the 4th round — P — still has stool so B — picks up the water bowl and with a terrific bang lands it on P's head . |
| 10 | Tomorrow was too far distanced for his mind to wait for the last piece of evidence — a mind so ceaselessly tossing , as it had been ever since Lewis — wonderful Lewis ! — had mentioned that seemingly irrelevant item in The Oxford Times . |
| 11 | THE COMBINED Birmingham Railway Museum and Birmingham Mail ‘ Santa Specials ’ were enjoying good publicity and seat booking for the first two Sundays in December . |
| 12 | No matter what the future holds for the next generation and the delicate trembling wilderness , at least we can promise our children and grandchildren one sure thing . |
| 13 | Manager Kenny Shiels , watching his side win for the first time since the opening day of the season , feels that it 's not an impossible dream . |
| 14 | Manager Kenny Shiels , watching his side win for the first time since the opening day of the season , feels that it 's not an impossible dream . |
| 15 | The IAC reported for the last time in January this year and , under the terms of the 1990 continuation order , the 1987 Act is due to expire on 31 March 1992 . |
| 16 | A critic walking for the first time into a gallery may describe a colour in a picture as blue ; it will have been the scrupulous task of a conservator to have established that the particular colour in question was Prussian blue , and thus can not date before the eighteenth century . |
| 17 | Matthey Electronics Burslem has for the third successive year won the prestigious RoSPA Gold Award for Occupational Safety . |
| 18 | Our study describes for the first time the secretory and circulatory changes occurring with the progression of pancreatitis induced by caerulein infusion . |
| 19 | The availability of sequence data from two mosaic genes of P.wickerhamii mitochondria allows for the first time a comparison of algal intron positions with those from fungi and liverwort . |
| 20 | This result allows for the first time , sequence analysis of EF1β and δ proteins , both present in the same complex . |
| 21 | Delegated enforcement is the term used for the fourth principle by which private bodies are used to enforce agreements and therefore administer state policies . |
| 22 | Although the same group of physicists has found good evidence for the production of B mesons at CESR before , this latest result shows for the first time the explicit decay of B mesons into less-rare , longer-lived particles ( Physical Review Letters , vol 50 , p 881 ) . |
| 23 | The Secretaryship , possibly joint with Club Stewardship , was in the control of Mr. and Mrs. H.J. Young from 1914 to 1921 at which Annual General Meeting they were presented with some silver ‘ for keeping the club going for the last six years ’ . |
| 24 | In conclusion , this study shows for the first time that reduced fetal growth is followed by higher death rates from cardiovascular disease in adult life . |
| 25 | The result was that four travellers were now sitting in the airport terminal waiting for the next flight , which was probably full anyway . |
| 26 | The apprentices from RAF Halton In Buckinghamshire have been keeping the air force flying for the last seventy two years . |
| 27 | There 's even a 100MHz dual-processor penned for the second quarter of next year using Cypress ' promised three-layer , 0.5 CMOS technology , touted at up to 320 MIPS , 162 SPECmarks , 142 SPECfp and 77 MFLOPS . |
| 28 | New Zealand captain Martin Crowe has agreed to coach Italy 's national cricket team for the next two months to help their bid to qualify for the next World Cup in 1996 . |
| 29 | Catholicism is presented as a potential remedy , but the philosophy of indeterminacy appears for the first time in this novel as a rival discourse . |
| 30 | Even the formulation of a dualistic class division , Laclau and Mouffe have argued persuasively , is itself nothing less than a nostalgic attempt to recreate for the nineteenth century the imagined simplicity of the conditions of the aristocracy/bourgeoisie conflict of the French Revolution which had originally inspired Hegel . |