Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This system , devised by Rentokil 's Research and Development department , offers for the first time a non-chemical , twenty-four hour detection and protection system .
2 The same phrase had been translated and mordantly placed by Dante in Canto XXX of the Purgatorio ; and so , when Hardy in these poems confronts the shade of his recently deceased and estranged wife Emma , not only does Aeneas in Aeneid 6 confront the reproachfully haughty ghost of Dido , but Dante 's pilgrim confronts for the first time the shade or apparition of his lost Beatrice .
3 plays on , he plays for the first team normally I think .
4 Local pupils have taken a great interest in the British Gas work , which is bringing gas supplies for the first time to the Bere Alston and Bere Ferrers communities , where more than a third of the 1042 homes in the area have taken up the offer of gas .
5 We wanted to attract mature students with a high level of skills and commitment and were able , through the Nuffield Foundation , to provide student grants for the first part of the course which either paid for secondment salaries of allowed people who were , for instance working interpreters , to forego part of their normal paid employment .
6 Left : With psychological jammed knots in place , the author goes for the first ring on Renaissance ( E2/3 5c ) , Cross Hill , Adrspatch ( photo Graeme Ettle ) .
7 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 .
8 the fire alarm goes for the third time .
9 Forster exposes for the first time , with the official sanction of Du Maurier 's family , her fantasy life , her secret wartime affair , and the many contradictions in this complex woman 's inner life .
10 Instead of resting on its fundraising laurels , it has for the second year turned to race organising as a means of generating essential revenue .
11 Coatings company International Lory has for the second time completed a year without a single lost day accident .
12 The new hang has for the first time brought together the figures de fantaisie by Fragonard , the Louvre 's ninety-three Corots , thirty paintings by Chardin and thirteen by Watteau , as well as a rotating selection of the preparatory drawings by Le Brun for his decorative scheme for the Louvre .
13 For example , a recent act of Parliament has for the first time enabled citizens to own and operate radio stations .
14 For example , a recent act of Parliament has for the first time enabled citizens to own and operate radio stations .
15 We are very willing to accept that those parts of the judges ' visitorial jurisdiction which were not incident to the administration of justice in the courts passed down through the routes suggested by Sir William and Professor Baker , but in the context of the present case , where the court has for the first time to inquire into the particular function which is being performed , we are not satisfied that the whole of the visitorial jurisdiction passed by this route .
16 The UK government has for the first time ruled out the award of oil and gas exploration licences in certain areas on environmental grounds .
17 Moya Hood has for the last year been teaching weekly classes at Stroud Court in Gloucestershire , a sheltered community opened in 1983 for autistic adolescents and adults .
18 But we do have to do everything he wants for the next month or so . ’
19 Ben 's mother Sheila Silcock writes for the first time about her experiences .
20 Boro 's captain Tony Mowbray has a foot injury , so Coleman , a £400,000 buy from Mansfield , starts for the first time .
21 Which of these levels counts as the fourth floor ?
22 The meeting counts as the third round in the Ulster championship and will in fact be a two day affair for it begins on Friday night at 7.00pm .
23 It is to the Standard that one looks for the first record of all .
24 Beta testing starts during the first quarter of 1993 , with commercial availability expected by year-end .
25 Proudly proclaiming that this recording contains for the first time on one CD all of Bach 's Toccatas and Fugues ( including the Prelude and Fugue in E minor BWV548 ) , it is indeed a well-stocked programme .
26 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 .
27 Propagation is done by dividing the sprouting rhizomes , which it develops after the first year , or by seed .
28 The action would not be an indirect method of enforcing the contract against the other contracting party because it lies against a third party and in tort .
29 Despite the fact that religious influence declines throughout the nineteenth century ( in the fields of work , welfare , education and government ) , and social disharmony increases as the gap between the poor and rich widens , the century remains essentially one of optimism .
30 This is shown in percentile bands with the fiftieth percentile line shown in the middle ( i.e. fifty out of one hundred children at that age will be of that weight or height ) .
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