Example sentences of "[noun sg] for [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The responsibility for drawing the first furrow on a narrow stetch was one the head horseman could not afford to delegate , unless it was to a man equally skilled as himself ; for a stetch that did not come out , at every point , exactly to the inch would render ineffective the use of implements that had been designed specially for it ; again , a botched stetch was visible to all — to the casual passer-by and to the practised eye of his neighbour ; and the ‘ loss of face ’ a head horseman suffered through allowing the standard of his own work to be below that of the next farm 's was enough to make him ensure that every field was laid out and ploughed with as much care as patience and long-practised skill made possible . |
| 2 | The US Energy Department announced a five-year , $103m agreement with the Sematech semiconductor consortium to develop equipment for producing the next generation of chips : its Sandia National Laboratories , near Albuquerque , New Mexico will contribute the materials database and the expertise in advanced systems design needed to improve performance and reliability and Sematech will provide manufacturing expertise to the five-year programme . |
| 3 | His discussions of what was ‘ acceptable damage ’ in return for striking the first blow was ‘ somewhere between ten and sixty million dead . |
| 4 | It was apparently difficult to see if Ruffini 's proof was complete and despite a further attempt by him at the problem , in 1813 , the credit for supplying the first generally accepted proof of impossibility goes to Abel ( pronounced " Arbel " ) in 1824 . |
| 5 | 4.6 There is ample further evidence for regarding the second and third elements in such sequences — unlike the others we have seen so far — as jointly equivalent to a clause at the intensional level ; let us consider the four points which follow : First , most or all such phrases accept the insertion of the explicit predicator to be in front of the adjective ( and to be seems to be more or less obligatory when such adjectives are questioned ) ; we have already seen examples ( e.g. ( 35 ) , ( 41 ) ) . |
| 6 | If that seems to be the Russian price for full German unity , and if Mr Kohl 's instincts tell him it is also his price for winning the next German election , he may be tempted to go for it . |
| 7 | Langdon believed Kim Ku was the most obvious candidate for leading the first independent government . |
| 8 | All the recordings bear the stamp of Walter Legge 's mastery as producer and also indicate the conductor 's welcome preference for having the second violins on his right , giving a better spread to the string sound . |
| 9 | The second great invention for supporting the first invention is finding how to relate the invention itself to the public . |
| 10 | The reason for choosing the last phrase first is that there is less likelihood of the intonation being distorted . |
| 11 | The extra complexity of the second hypothesis may seem a good reason for preferring the first , but in fact any theory of latent inhibition will need to find some place for the idea that associability can change if it is to accommodate the chief conclusions to emerge from Chapter 3 . |
| 12 | The session had been intended to set a date for reconvening the 14th party congress , which had broken up in disarray on Jan. 23 [ see pp. 37172 ] . |
| 13 | I mean that 's one reason why I 'm setting Monday Monday week as the date final date for making the first return . |
| 14 | After surfacing the Solution remains active and displays time elapsed since surfacing , time until complete desaturation , maximum depth and dive time of your last dive , and amount of available no-decompression time for planning the next dive . |
| 15 | After their mauling of the Seasiders , Glenavon picked up £1 , from sponsors TNT for becoming the first side to score goals in the competition , with Trevor McMullan knocking in the sixth with two minutes left on the clock at Clandeboye . |
| 16 | We suspended the scraped cells in 5 ml phosphate buffered saline , pH 7.2 , supplemented with merthiolate 1:10000 vol/vol and sent the cell suspension to the laboratory for processing the next morning . |
| 17 | Squadron Leader Christopher Tingay , from R-A-F Lyneham , has been awarded the Air Force Cross for piloting the first relief flights into Sarajevo . |