Example sentences of "for [pron] [num ord] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They also made the evening gown for her first official engagement , a charity gala in the city of London , which created almost as big a sensation as the dress which graced St Paul 's Cathedral a few months later . |
| 2 | Her experience during rehearsal for her first Royal Variety Show at the London Palladium in November 1988 also taught her a lesson . |
| 3 | On the morning of the sixth day , Hullabaloo and Artemis jumped a line of good hedges in perfect harmony , and by the end of the first week Annellie Clyde considered her pupil ready for her first full day out . |
| 4 | All right , nine was a little young for her first sexual encounter , but now she 's come to like it she 's become such a friendly child . |
| 5 | For her first post- Peaks movie , Sherilyn Fenn ( left ) stars as archetypal floozie Candy Cane , a mix of Marilyn Monroe and all the women JFK ever slept with ( OK , maybe not quite all of them ) in the latest assassination flic Ruby . |
| 6 | Even Admiral Hyman Rickover , father and all-powerful master of the US Navy 's nuclear programme , who had hitherto blocked all Anglo-American collaboration in nuclear submarine development and had a well-known contempt for all things British , agreed not only to Britain purchasing an American reactor for her first nuclear submarine , Dreadnought , but also for the reactor to be the most recent second-generation version , thus saving Britain valuable time and development costs . |
| 7 | For her last forty years her close companion was Dr Octavia Wilberforce . |
| 8 | She first represented her country when she was just 15 and only last month , Tennis Ireland selected her for her fourth international match , which was played in Italy at Easter . |
| 9 | ASHLEY Cuddy scraped the last morsel off her plate with a sticky spoon before scurrying off , bright-eyed , to queue for her third mountainous helping . |
| 10 | In October , ‘ Make a Will Week ’ ran for its second successful year , winning a PR Week award , and co-ordinated by the Society with widespread and enthusiastic support from the profession . |
| 11 | Rank Xerox Ltd has chosen France for its second European research laboratory ( the first is in Cambridge ) , for which Italy , Germany and Spain were also in the running . |
| 12 | But tomorrow it comes to the region for its second national showing . |
| 13 | In July last year came the news that the WRVS was looking for its first chief executive . |
| 14 | British Telecom has been presented with an award for its first environmental performance report . |
| 15 | The most radical is to give one vote to each constituency party for its first 500 members , and an additional vote for every 250 extra members . |
| 16 | When she retired in 1930 , having served the School devotedly for its first twelve years , she was appointed CBE , and was awarded the silver medal of the African Society . |
| 17 | The sort of thing he or she might do , for example , is to suggest the use of a particular pattern of spaces across two or more pages of a magazine ; the use of a particular daily newspaper in order to exploit the merchandising services it can provide in support of the advertising ; an especially good offer by a TV station to new TV advertisers ; a new publication giving especially favourable rates for its first few issues ; and so on . |
| 18 | BRM 's F1 return had to wait until the new two-litre P25 was ready for its first full season in 1956 . |
| 19 | Fans of the historic Whitworth Hall , near Spennymoor , birthplace of Bobby Shafto , can join a new ‘ Friends of Whitworth ’ scheme entitling them to concessions when the hall opens to the public for its first full season . |
| 20 | Charles Luker then gave a speech of reminiscences stressing the need to be grateful for ‘ those who had formed the Club and those who had kept it going for its first 50 years ’ . |
| 21 | For a show due to open for its first public preview in a week 's time The Hooded Owl was in far from promising shape . |
| 22 | The Doric Club met for its ninth annual lunch on Tuesday , 8 September . |
| 23 | A call for papers and programme proposals has been issued by the School of Communication in Miami , USA for its ninth annual Intercultural and International Communication Conference , to be held 19–21 May 1992 . |
| 24 | The National Assembly of People 's Power , the nominal Cuban parliament , meeting for its ninth ordinary session on Dec. 26-27 , approved the political reforms suggested by the fourth congress of the Cuban Communist Party ( PCC ) held in October [ see pp. 38523-24 ] . |
| 25 | It was the NAPSS which brought both Emily Faithfull and Bessie Rayner Parkes to Scotland for its fourth annual conference , held in Glasgow in October 1860 . |
| 26 | Cupertino , California-based Apple Computer Inc , which went all the way to Japan for its last major product introduction , will finally launch its first family of network file servers at CeBit , in Hannover , on March 25 , according to US press reports . |
| 27 | It was this last area that kept the broad gauge alive for its last twenty years , after the conversion of South Wales in 1872 . |
| 28 | The voluntary committee which runs the Dumfries and Galloway Arts Festival expected to receive £8,340 for its 14th annual programme , which begins a ten-day run at the end of May . |
| 29 | Schwartz has turned to the American Deep South for its third new seasoning . |
| 30 | Burlington , Massachusetts-based Bachman Information Systems Inc warns that it expects revenues for its third fiscal quarter to Aprch 31 to be below analysts ' expectations and that the operating loss for the quarter will also be greater than financial market expectations — it notes that some analysts had forecast revenues of about $10m . |