Example sentences of "[prep] new [noun prp] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since Hick 's elevation to the Test team we 've seen England share the most successful series against West Indies in the last nine , win a series against New Zealand for the first time in four attempts , win a Test match against Pakistan for the first time in 10 years , and , for good measure , reach the World Cup final . |
| 2 | Of 35 teams in New Zealand for the first Raid , all but five were French . |
| 3 | Two rare kakapo chicks have been hatched in captivity in New Zealand for the first time . |
| 4 | Yesterday Miss Stott 's grandparents said they believed she and her boyfriend , Peter Ellis , originally from Tyneside but working as a computer analyst in New Zealand for the past 18 months , had gone on the three-week holiday in order to get engaged and to share their love of jazz . |
| 5 | THE St Petersburg National Opera ( the ‘ National ’ ) , Chaliapin 's company , is in New York for the first time . |
| 6 | The Kitchens are in New York for the first time , because last August , A&M America heard their just-completed second album and bought it on the spot . |
| 7 | On Oct. 8 Foreign Minister Nguyen Manh Cam , in New York for the 47th session of the UN General Assembly [ see p. 39120 ] , held talks with US Defence Secretary Dick Cheney and acting Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger . |
| 8 | Souza has lived in New York for the last 20 years . |
| 9 | Matthew Radford is an English painter who has been working in New York for the past ten years . |
| 10 | Another kind of abstraction- this time influenced by Zen Buddhist teachings figures in the work of Daniel Berlin , a Colorado artist who has lived in New York for the past eight years . |
| 11 | In March 1992 I returned to New Zealand for the first time in over a dozen years , to sample again what light aviation there has to offer visitors . |