Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun sg] for [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subject to that undertaking , I am pleased to announce today that I have increased the funding planned by the corporation by £22 million , bringing provision for the next three years to £130 million . |
| 2 | When they had finished unloading , Therese said , ‘ My coco , I shall be helping Loulou for the next week or two , I do n't like leaving him much when he 's working on those big things . |
| 3 | Twenty-three years after becoming premier for the first time , he shows every indication of wanting to lead the Liberals against the Parti Québécois in another election . |
| 4 | We 'll even give you free glazing insurance for the first 12 months . |
| 5 | Kit had learned how to grow certain lucrative crops on the mainland , when he served with Roger Pole and the local Indians had been drafted to instruct them ; but he was cultivating indigo for the first time , in Sycorax 's former enclave , and he found the plant tricky and demanding and considered its production women 's work . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's the best day of my life , ’ said Capriati after defeating Graf for the first time . |
| 7 | President Bush had stated on Aug. 2 that only a health problem — which he stressed did not currently exist — would deter him from seeking re-election for a second term . |
| 8 | Meeting Sien for the first time and getting to know her was like knowing ‘ a fellow creature as lonesome and unhappy as myself ’ , no more and no less . |
| 9 | They advocated a less sectarian approach to relations with the Labour Party , favouring work for a third Labour Government , rather than the virtually syndicalist policy being put forward by the ILP . |
| 10 | IAN RUSH believes Kenny Dalglish made a terrible mistake when he walked tearfully out of the Liverpool dressing room for the last time . |
| 11 | Went through to Russell and certainly a good overlap from Lawrence his score is eight runs , so a hundred and twenty seven for four and now describing play for the next twenty minutes we 've got John Adnew . |
| 12 | We subsequently undertook an additional study of the records of 450 call outs of London police surgeons and are now conducting research for the first comprehensive national study of police surgeons . |
| 13 | ‘ Its combination of performance , quality engineering , specification and economy will win customers away from competitive models and attract buyers who are considering diesel for the first time , ’ he said . |
| 14 | For instance , at Hambro Life Assurance , employees receive the costs of legal and any other fees incurred in buying property for the first time . |
| 15 | These are the children who sometimes crack at university level because they are facing challenge for the first time in their lives . ’ |
| 16 | Scanning teletext for the last 2 days has only revealed ‘ Gerry Francis has denied rumours he is selling Bardsley to Leeds ’ |
| 17 | If you are installing LIFESPAN for the first time , then it is recommended that you create up to three LIFESPAN Processes , as described below . |
| 18 | It was getting time for the last bus across London Bridge for the District Line . |
| 19 | And I was eating steak for the second time in less than fifteen hours . |
| 20 | A new leaflet aimed at young people starting work for the first time has been produced by the Inland Revenue . |
| 21 | The loss of a single seat would mean the Tories surrendering control for the first time since nineteen seventy four . |
| 22 | HAVING sex for the first time does n't frighten 15 year old Amber Armitage . |
| 23 | ‘ I think they would both probably only tell me after the event about having sex for the first time but as long as I have helped prepare them they wo n't do anything silly . |
| 24 | WALLACE could return to United 's League starting line-up for the first time in 16 months . |
| 25 | Will he confirm that most of them are tourists , many of whom are travelling north for a last glimpse of a rare species on the point of extinction in Scotland — Scottish Tory Members ? |
| 26 | A number of countries which were suspected ( principally by the USA and other Western countries ) of developing chemical weapons-including Libya , Iraq and Syria-were among a total of 22 countries taking part for the first time in the committee 's deliberations since the opening of the spring session , albeit as observers . |
| 27 | On Bonaire all three seats were won by the Bonaire Patriotic Union ( Union Patriotico Bonairiano — UPB — one in 1985 ) ; on St Maarten the Democratic Party of St Maarten ( DP-SM ) won two seats ( three in 1985 ) and the Patriotic Alliance won one , entering parliament for the first time ; on Saba the single seat went as before to the Windward Islands People 's Movement ( WIPM — not the West Indian People 's Movement as given on p. 36212 ) ; and on St Eustatius the single seat went as before to the Democratic Party of St Eustatius ( DP-SE ) . |
| 28 | The Agency 's Management Development Division organises and sponsors courses for those entering management for the first time , those already in management and those wishing to take up a management position after a period of unemployment . |
| 29 | ‘ She 'd been taking hush-money for the last ten years . ’ |
| 30 | Art 93 , which is , with the collapse of the rival attraction formerly held at Olympia , now London 's only fair for contemporary art , will be taking place for the fifth consecutive year at Islington 's Business Design Centre ( 21–24 January ) . |