Example sentences of "this [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | This for the first time established boards representing employers and workers to fix minimum wages in the largely ununionized ‘ sweated ’ industries . |
2 | Hazel and his companions had spent the night doing everything that came unnaturally to them , and this for the first time . |
3 | This for the first time drew explicit attention to the contradiction between the order EX 77268 of 17 May , the " Distone order " , that " Chetniks and dissident Jugoslavs " should be evacuated to Italy , and the agreement reached by 5 Corps that they should be handed over : " Ref F 77268 of 17 [ the Distone order ] . |
4 | Wycliffe did not prompt her but her mother , evidently hearing all this for the first time , had no such scruples . |
5 | This is because the students will be dealing with this for the first time and this is thought to be a clearer presentation . |
6 | Remember you 're going into this for the first time . |
7 | One of Mr Thomas 's conditions , supported by Mrs Noble , was that Edward and Helen should not correspond when he left for Oxford , and they agreed to this for the first term . |
8 | It may , in fact , be better to organise it for the day after you move , because being certain that everything will run according to plan on the day of the move is almost impossible , so it is better to do without your cooker overnight and schedule this for the next morning when you know you are definitely going to be there . |
9 | It is tempting to see this as the first occasion when the judges insisted on independence on this principle . |
10 | The therapist believes this problem is maintained independently of the client 's other problems and thus accepts this as the first goal for therapy . |
11 | Lotus views this as the first step in providing intergroup capabilities for applications like spreadsheets . |
12 | Morant and Newman hoped gradually to develop a comprehensive free health service for children administered by local Medical Officers of Health , seeing this as the first step towards a free health service for all . |
13 | ‘ The chairman has received many letters , as have I , from MPs and people in the local community who see this as the first need for the force . ’ |
14 | ‘ The chairman has received many letters , as have I , from MPs and people in the local community who see this as the first need for the force . ’ |
15 | The small independent bakers , already affected by the supermarket bakeries , see this as the last straw . |
16 | Burma is fortunate in that she has enough for her own needs , though she was only just able to ensure this during the last harvest . |
17 | Ben capped this with the first ascent of the roof right of Psycho . |
18 | What 's , this with the second horse ? |
19 | ( Compare this with the next example , when tracking by Highest version ) . |
20 | And when we 've finished er I 'll come and hopefully pull everything together and take this onto the next stage which is the evaluation of the plan . |
21 | We need to move this into the next stage which is to get it managed for a sports field , sports ground properly . |
22 | Janet Bond , 42 , hospital employee ( left ) : ‘ I remember all this from the first time round ! |
23 | Hybrid Tea bush types After attending to the basics or primary aspects — removing completely all dead , diseased and feeble wood ( you wo n't find much of this in the first year ) — seek to prune to outward-pointing buds that will grow out along the line of growth , not sideways , so that this growth leads to an open cup or shuttlecock shape . |
24 | If they were smart enough to get bored , they would n't be doing a job like this in the first place . |
25 | It 's the Principle that got us started on all this in the first place , remember . |
26 | For clearly , if ever he trusted to this in the first place , he had come without any weapon . ’ |
27 | Fran walked with him to the door , wishing that she had never agreed to this in the first place . |
28 | It is easy to see this in the nineteenth century because the development of local government reflected economic organization and the political processes which derived from it . |
29 | In the first place , Herodotus ( ii.61 ) , discussing Egyptian customs , specifically mentions ‘ the Karians who are in Egypt ’ : the historian wrote this in the mid-fifth century . |
30 | After the fierce arguments of the previous decade it was necessary for my Group to explain its own rationale , and we did this in the second chapter of our Report . |