Example sentences of "the [noun pl] for [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | The contracts for the first defence of the title given to Lewis when Riddick Bowe was stripped of the distinction by the WBC were signed by the fighter and his manager , Frank Maloney , in Glasgow yesterday and faxed to Tucker 's handler , Don King , in New York . |
2 | The accounts for the first year indicated quite clearly the recognition of the social divisions which existed at the time . |
3 | The number of boys fluctuated around 100 , but the School at last seemed to have become viable , a credit balance appearing in the accounts for the first time . |
4 | The General Post Office appears in the accounts for the first time . |
5 | So much so that , although it had not been mentioned at all in the advance publicity , it was given no fewer than 87 times that season and remained in the programmes for the next six seasons , by which time the company had danced it more often than any other work in their repertory except Les Sylphides and two of Ashton 's ballets , Façade and Les Rendezvous . |
6 | Hilary particularly remembers ‘ … the mesmeric Senta , whose teaching was so brilliant that Rata Quick and I both achieved the splits for the first and last time in our lives , with no untoward effects ! ’ . |
7 | When the athletic Can Can girls had done the splits for the umpteenth time , the old master , 83-year-old George Williams , played on the state of his health . |
8 | I retire to the toilets for the third time in the space of ten minutes . |
9 | ‘ You do that and I 'll pursue your father through the courts for every last penny Eddie owed me . ’ |
10 | The right of an employee inventor to claim statutory compensation from his employer has recently been asserted before the courts for the first time in a series of three reported cases emanating from the Comptroller of Patents and the Patents Court . |
11 | Then , on 20 June , the Germans for the first time employed a new type of diphosgene gas shell . |
12 | All that we have available is the notes for the first part of the introduction , written , presumably , in the spring , and consisting of a highly condensed discussion of Greek tragedy and its development . |
13 | Had the plans for a third London airport in the Thames estuary gone ahead , the land could doubtless have been developed at considerable profit . |
14 | They work out how much money to feed back to pay for the inputs for the next year , and the remainder is profit . |
15 | Although Gould had wound up two of his principal publications by the time he left England — the concluding part 22 of Birds of Europe was scheduled for July 1837 , and the third and final part of the Trogons appeared on or before 14 March 1838 — Prince was charged with seeing to the publicity and the production of the plates for Darwin 's Zoology of the Beagle , and the printing and colouring of the illustrations for the second part of Icones Avium on the species of Caprimulgidae , or goatsuckers . |
16 | The ISS curriculum proposals aroused less controversy in ILEA than those of TNC in part because of the very different curriculum philosophy within which the proposals for the fourth and fifth years were set . |
17 | The former sprint champion , who built a career on the use of illegal substances , did not take part in the meeting , of course , after he was caught taking the tablets for a second time . |
18 | DID YOU notice the unusual , if not unique , feature of the scorecards for the first Test between England and New Zealand at Christchurch ? |
19 | The reasons for a Third American Revolution have not gone away . |
20 | The optimist would point out that the aggregate attendance for the two Tests so far — 31,310 — compares very favourably with the aggregates for the first two Tests of 1980 ( 17,977 ) , and 1985 ( 28,097 ) . |
21 | Right , we we 're not doing the minutes for the tenth of January because you 've only just got the copies this evening so that 's being erm , we 'll go through those at the next meeting . |
22 | Chair , the point about the schools is that we could put that information in the minutes for the next meeting , schools that are participating in the survey . |
23 | The authorities for the first time gave permission for an opposition demonstration on March 7 . |
24 | The frequencies for the fifth , sixth , seventh , and eighth decades were 8/141 ( 5.7% ) , 14/161 ( 8.7% ) , 8/116 ( 6.9% ) , and 5/45 ( 11.1% ) , respectively . |
25 | Captain Awud then presented the candidates for the first committee — as it happened , the development committee . |
26 | In 1960 the candidates for the first time debated on television , and politics began an almost metaphysical transformation : the external world was miraculously reconvened as powdered images upon America 's internal screen . |
27 | Goyigama Buddhists normally organized thefts in both areas , but Muslim or Sinhalese Roman Catholic traders usually took control of the animals for the last stages before the slaughterhouse . |
28 | He remembered her ripping it the day she 'd taken him to see the hens for the first time . |
29 | It looks as if he tore out the entries for the last two months and burned those pages separately , then chucked the book open on the flames . |
30 | But it was part of a performance by one of the contenders for the Ninth National Review of Live Art . |