Example sentences of "for the [num ord] [noun] to " in BNC.

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1 Resolved that this meeting concurs in Apinion [ sic ] with the said Committee — that it will be necessary to carry on the Business of this Institution as perfectly as possible , that there should be two Professors appointed & that as soon as the proposed plan for the College is executed , which , from the Encouragement already given , 't is hoped will be speedily accomplished — The members will avail themselves of the Offer made by the Committee and refer the Merits of Candidates for the second professorship to their investigation .
2 She is married for the second time to a man 15 years her junior .
3 And , if any other recommendation be needed , I was asked for the second time to be coach monitor on our outing to Brighton , so you can see that I must be OK .
4 That day , April 29 , twenty Spitfires were safely delivered to Renfrew with one each on April 30 and May 1 for a total of 52 aircraft which constituted 100% of the complement assigned for the second delivery to Malta .
5 Of the elite , only hurdler Colin Jackson and 200 metres man John Regis are entered for the first championships to be staged in Birmingham 's new National Indoor Arena since the move from nearby Cosford .
6 And in case anyone thought that that was the end of the bad news , the company says it expects that its revenue for the first quarter to September 27 will be below analysts ' expectations and that it will incur a loss for the quarter .
7 The TE Electronics Inc manufacturing subsidiary that Tandy Corp plans to spin off , says it will take a $20m charge against results for the first half to December 31 to cover the cost of the proposed sale of its Micronic hand-held computer operation and a decision to close two small European offices of the Tandy/GRiD Europe subsidiary .
8 Interim results for the first half to July 1991 revealed that this revamp was the only operation to increase sales and profits .
9 ( " Integration money " of DM1,200 monthly would still be paid for the first year to immigrants unable to find work .
10 Prices for the first properties to be released are likely to be from just £49,995 .
11 There is also the element of preparing for some of life 's experiences : for the first visit to the dentist or to hospital ; for coping with separation from parents or with death .
12 A board beside it bore a specification of the car and an outline of the services offered by Hazards Limited , who were sponsoring this prize for the first player to ace the hole .
13 Prizemoney was awarded for the first time to competing teams in 1976 .
14 MOSCOW — Huge amounts of computerised information held in Soviet data bases are to be made available for the first time to Western research , it was agreed at a conference for Western and Eastern scientists here , writes Justin Arundale .
15 Natural water from two 300ft boreholes beneath Huddersfield , West Yorkshire , is for the first time to be bottled , and sold to France .
16 The principle of ‘ dual control ’ ( by the public authority and by a voluntary body ) was extended for the first time to secondary schools .
17 It seemed like a thousand years had lapsed since ‘ Meat Is Murder ’ and how refreshing it was , how exciting to place the record clumsily on the turntable for the first time to be faced with the full frontal body blow that is the title track .
18 After all , if you have begun addressing yourself for the first time to such an issue you are more likely to be able to have the courage of your convictions at work in trying to tackle , for example , management by inertia .
19 While this may be socially desirable in the LFA , until the reduction and partial elimination of capital grants in December 1984 , there were fears that pastures and meadows ( hitherto traditionally managed ) , small wetlands and areas of rough grazing on small farms in the UK uplands would be subject for the first time to agricultural intensification .
20 Harold Wilson 's government introduced the original Redundancy Payments Act 1965 , which gave redundant workers the right for the first time to a statutory severance payment if they satisfied certain qualifying conditions .
21 During the relaying of this track , the Marton trams operated in a complete circle , returning to Talbot Square via Royal Oak and Lytham Road , while the St. Annes blue cars were diverted for the first time to the Promenade at Talbot Square .
22 In one such mood I turned for the first time to Marcus Aurelius .
23 I flew it for the first time to Dupage Airport to replace the ninety-channel radio with a 720-channel unit , then on to Janesville , Wisconsin , for paint work and a new headliner .
24 Only when Bert Rafferty was called to give evidence did Harriet Tremayne show any sign of breaking down , as she listened for the first time to his description of exactly what had happened on that harrowing morning .
25 The music ranges from the familiar to the unknown — from an early opera played in its entirety for the first time to a unique performance of The Messiah where you can actually join in the singing .
26 The story weaves the Japanese viewpoint widely through the film and presents , probably for the first time to most movie viewers , a rational reason why the Japanese felt they had to attack the United States or suffer as a second-class nation .
27 ( Short , happy , slightly humorous speech when the groom is marrying for the first time to a divorced woman . )
28 Initially he concentrated on Scotland , where the impact of railways had effectively opened the country for the first time to a large number of visitors .
29 When the Mughal court was disbanded , Muslim hijras were exposed for the first time to the other , Hindu , tradition of eunuchry .
30 In France the post of Secretary of State for War was given for the first time to a soldier ( the Maréchal de Belle-Isle ) in 1758 ; and in the second half of the century there was a slow but steady tendency for the most important officials concerned , the intendants d'armées and the contrôleurs des guerres , to be military men .
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