Example sentences of "for [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have spent the last six months investigating Free People , and what they have asked for constitutes the first stage of their long-term programme . ’ |
| 2 | The responsibility for drawing the first furrow on a narrow stetch was one the head horseman could not afford to delegate , unless it was to a man equally skilled as himself ; for a stetch that did not come out , at every point , exactly to the inch would render ineffective the use of implements that had been designed specially for it ; again , a botched stetch was visible to all — to the casual passer-by and to the practised eye of his neighbour ; and the ‘ loss of face ’ a head horseman suffered through allowing the standard of his own work to be below that of the next farm 's was enough to make him ensure that every field was laid out and ploughed with as much care as patience and long-practised skill made possible . |
| 3 | The extra complexity of the second hypothesis may seem a good reason for preferring the first , but in fact any theory of latent inhibition will need to find some place for the idea that associability can change if it is to accommodate the chief conclusions to emerge from Chapter 3 . |
| 4 | The US Energy Department announced a five-year , $103m agreement with the Sematech semiconductor consortium to develop equipment for producing the next generation of chips : its Sandia National Laboratories , near Albuquerque , New Mexico will contribute the materials database and the expertise in advanced systems design needed to improve performance and reliability and Sematech will provide manufacturing expertise to the five-year programme . |
| 5 | After their mauling of the Seasiders , Glenavon picked up £1 , from sponsors TNT for becoming the first side to score goals in the competition , with Trevor McMullan knocking in the sixth with two minutes left on the clock at Clandeboye . |
| 6 | After much hard work — Hunt castigates himself for driving the first third of the race like a ‘ grandmother ’ — Hunt eventually got by Jody when Scheckter was held up by a back-marker . |
| 7 | Squadron Leader Christopher Tingay , from R-A-F Lyneham , has been awarded the Air Force Cross for piloting the first relief flights into Sarajevo . |
| 8 | CD 's notes for writing the first instalment of Hard Times reveal that the object of his satire here was ‘ Marlborough House Doctrine ’ and ‘ Cole ’ , i.e. Henry Cole ( 1808–82 ) , civil servant and one of the main organizers of the Great Exhibition of 1851 . |
| 9 | The stags ' antlers are cast each year and are best left where found as they are nibbled and eaten to recycle the chemicals and nutrients needed for growing the next set , which is probably more useful than lying in the loft at home or being turned into a table lamp . |
| 10 | Langdon believed Kim Ku was the most obvious candidate for leading the first independent government . |
| 11 | The touching blocks disappear , possibly opening up new paths for moving the next block . |
| 12 | Just under a century later , in 869–70 , the Emperor Basil II , though he had turned for help to Pope Hadrian II , was responsible for summoning the fourth Council of Constantinople . |
| 13 | The second great invention for supporting the first invention is finding how to relate the invention itself to the public . |
| 14 | Labour 's Stuart Bell , who is defending Middlesbrough in the General Election , has received an inscribed glass paperweight from the League Against Cruel Sports for supporting the Second Reading of the Wild Animals ( Protecion ) Bill on February 14 . |
| 15 | Chapter 29 of that work is remarkable for containing the first scientific investigation of the tides , involving the earliest ‘ establishment of a port ’ , that is , the mean interval between the time of high water and that of the previous transit of the meridian by the moon . |
| 16 | All the recordings bear the stamp of Walter Legge 's mastery as producer and also indicate the conductor 's welcome preference for having the second violins on his right , giving a better spread to the string sound . |
| 17 | The session had been intended to set a date for reconvening the 14th party congress , which had broken up in disarray on Jan. 23 [ see pp. 37172 ] . |
| 18 | But for recording the last four EPs and the album , most of the guitar actually is this hired-in Gibson Les Paul Junior . |
| 19 | We must also extend our congratulations to our neighbours , FC Titford Polymer Converters , for taking the Second Division championship at the first attempt . |
| 20 | In its internal history for the Joint Chiefs of Staff , their secretariat give them the credit ( or blame ) for taking the first step in shifting the battle for Asia from China to Southeast Asia . |
| 21 | er position two is always for tur for taking the first turning off the |
| 22 | Although Braque had been responsible for taking the first steps towards a more abstract type of painting , his own use of the new procedure was much more cautious than Picasso 's . |
| 23 | The reason for choosing the last phrase first is that there is less likelihood of the intonation being distorted . |
| 24 | 4.6 There is ample further evidence for regarding the second and third elements in such sequences — unlike the others we have seen so far — as jointly equivalent to a clause at the intensional level ; let us consider the four points which follow : First , most or all such phrases accept the insertion of the explicit predicator to be in front of the adjective ( and to be seems to be more or less obligatory when such adjectives are questioned ) ; we have already seen examples ( e.g. ( 35 ) , ( 41 ) ) . |
| 25 | Rangers are already assured of a near half million pound pay-out from UEFA for reaching the last eight and , with around £200,000 at stake for each point earned from now on , a maximum of £2.4m is also up for grabs . |
| 26 | Later this year the DTI will be issuing a consultative document on its proposals for implementing the Third Life Insurance Directive , which is due to come into operation by mid-1994 and which will enable an insurer to offer insurance anywhere in the Community on the basis of a single authorisation in the state where its head office is situated . |
| 27 | Last season , Leeds received £100,000 from sponsors Barclays for winning the First Division . |
| 28 | If that seems to be the Russian price for full German unity , and if Mr Kohl 's instincts tell him it is also his price for winning the next German election , he may be tempted to go for it . |
| 29 | I mean that 's one reason why I 'm setting Monday Monday week as the date final date for making the first return . |
| 30 | It was apparently difficult to see if Ruffini 's proof was complete and despite a further attempt by him at the problem , in 1813 , the credit for supplying the first generally accepted proof of impossibility goes to Abel ( pronounced " Arbel " ) in 1824 . |