Example sentences of "for [art] [num ord] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do think we could have been ‘ sniffing ’ for the second ball better ( ie the cleared headers/knock downs ) . |
| 2 | TROOPS held Zairean legislators prisoner for the second day yesterday , demanding they approve use of controversial banknotes which have caused riots and crippled trade . |
| 3 | Until last year , Longchamp was the only place to be , but now Phoenix Park in Dublin , where the Cartier Million will be staged for the second time tomorrow , provides a tempting alternative . |
| 4 | PEOPLE 'S CHOICE … world Formula One champion Nigel Mansell was last night voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year for the second time ahead of Olympic gold medallists Linford Christie and Sally Gunnell . |
| 5 | Going on to the last lap Dunlop had matters well in hand but further down the field behind McCallen there was drama when Alan Patterson , who had been in third place and going well , suddenly shot through the final bend and took the wrong road for the second time today losing his chance of a place . |
| 6 | Trusting to things mechanical for the second time today , he sank below on a hydraulic platform designed for wheelchairs . |
| 7 | A DIVORCED couple married for the second time today … 53 years after their first wedding . |
| 8 | When he took the stage to collect the award ( winning it for the second time following two years of Vivienne Westwood ) , Ozbek did n't stand a chance . |
| 9 | THE Duke and Duchess of Kent became grandparents for the second time yesterday when the Earl of St Andrews and his wife had a baby girl . |
| 10 | News on Ronny is that he is in fact at Tottenham for the second week now . |
| 11 | But Anna Pavord 's recognition ( 27 September ) of the opportunity for the twentieth century boldly to turn Uppark 's tragedy to advantage , is a more compelling argument . |
| 12 | England call upon John for the 32nd time tomorrow and that means his 29th international on the bench unless I get injured . |
| 13 | ‘ If we can keep them contained for the first half then we 've got a chance of pinching a couple of goals . ’ |
| 14 | Preparations for the first tour ever conducted of works from the Barnes Foundation are advancing . |
| 15 | Our chief source of information on Roman architecture for the first century B.C. is Marcus Vitruvius Pollio who wrote his famous work De Architectura , which he dedicated to Augustus , in 25 B.C. Vitruvius , as we call him , sets out his plans for an ideal Roman city in the first volume of his work . |
| 16 | ‘ I remembered the Factor 15 , better for the first day anyway . ’ |
| 17 | For the first year only . |
| 18 | But Greenford was in Middlesex and many was the night I spent in the pissing rain having walked to Acton Town station to wait for the first train home in the morning . |
| 19 | ‘ Nine players in that side appeared for the first team later . |
| 20 | plays on , he plays for the first team normally I think . |
| 21 | ( iv ) If a discretionary life sentence is passed , the minister of state sets the date for the first review strictly in accordance with the views of the judiciary , thus following the decision in Ex parte Handscomb , 86 Cr.App.R. 59 , and Mr. Hurd 's 1987 statement . |
| 22 | The evidence shows that in many cases the minister of state has set a date for the first review later than would have been the case if he had adopted the views expressed by the judiciary . |
| 23 | Ernst Richter was the latest recruit from the academy , having arrived the previous day , and he had been assigned to work with Mauer for the first month so that his temperament and personality could be assessed to ensure that later on he would be paired with the right partner . |
| 24 | Jean Cocteau , Peggy Guggenheim tells us in her autobiography Confessions of an Art Addict , received her for the first time comfortably horizontal between the sheets , smoking opium . |
| 25 | For the first time both sets of fines were imposed for infringements of EC competition rules as laid down in Arts 85 and 86 of the Treaty of Rome . |
| 26 | ‘ I am particularly excited about the opportunities that it will provide for opening up for the first time higher educational facilities in the area . |
| 27 | Young people striking out on their own for the first time frequently do not have transport and colleges or universities are not always situated in city centres . |
| 28 | This poor soul , pallid and puffy on his bed after desperate vomiting , sick and quiet and unregarded ever since , spent and ulcered mind and spirit by what he had so mistakenly undertaken , Jerome was for the first time wholly pitiful . |
| 29 | We can not win the Ryder Cup , the Curtis Cup , the Walker Cup in the United States for the first time again . |
| 30 | We can not have a Briton winning the US Masters for the first time again , nor a Briton putting the green jacket on yet another Briton for the first time again . |