Example sentences of "[num ord] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was n't one enough , or is the second intended for him ? |
| 2 | The first relates to providing for any children of the marriage and the second allows for a temporary income to be given to either partner who is likely to suffer immediate hardship — this support may last for up to three years . |
| 3 | Liskeard had its pillory and the town 's records during the reign of Charles 1st shown for 1635 , ‘ paid for amending the pillory and cage , 2s.8d ’ . |
| 4 | Ireland nearly equalised in the second , but were held back and Sandra Colamartino scored her second try for Scotland in the final minutes . |
| 5 | Precision Studios were first registered for BS5750 in February 1991 . |
| 6 | First asked for ideas for alternative employment to replace the arms industry , Mr. Browne suggested that it was the job of business not governments to provide employment , but he hoped some of the technologies currently used in defence could be deployed for civilian use . |
| 7 | Ranteallo simply looked sheepish when we first asked for an explanation the following morning , and it was left to Werner Meyer to give us an explanation , when he finally arrived to join us . |
| 8 | Now in his late 40s Mr Rees says he has seen many changes in attitude to transsexuals in the 20 years since he first asked for treatment . |
| 9 | When they first met for real the fierce , cold , autocratic , heroically self-made man 's beady eye and cockily addressed him as ‘ Washy ’ to his face , well , petrification set in , sometimes terminal . |
| 10 | Any graduate visiting the University should first make for the Visitors ' Centre , where they can be sure of a warm welcome . |
| 11 | It is when they first suffer for Christ that the earliest apostles return to their friends , pray ( not for safety but for boldness ) , and find the place shaken by the Holy Spirit ( Acts 4:29–31 ) . |
| 12 | Theodosiou was the first to go for stamping in the 72nd minute and Greg Downs followed after protesting at a penalty decision . |
| 13 | Ponty skipper Nigel Bezani was first to go for a high tackle in which he elbowed centre John Apsee , but the Bridgend man admitted : ‘ I was surprised he was sent off . ’ |
| 14 | When I first applied for part time training in September 1984 I was interviewed within two weeks of the birth of my first child . |
| 15 | The two companies say they are confident they can comply with the licences , which they first applied for in March 1991 . |
| 16 | ‘ The critical current calculated is already higher than the critical current first reported for the high-temperature superconducting materials based on copper-oxide compounds , ’ says George Gruner , director of UCLA 's Solid State Science Centre . |
| 17 | THE European Commission on Wednesday approved an EC loan of one billion Ecus ( £800 million ) to help Hungary overcome severe balance of payments problems , the first organised for a non-EC country . |
| 18 | THE European Commission on Wednesday approved an EC loan of one billion Ecus ( £800 million ) to help Hungary overcome severe balance of payments problems , the first organised for a non-EC country . |
| 19 | On finding this mark-up within a document , Guide first looks for Aname in the context-table ( if any ) for the current document , and only if this fails is the library searched . |
| 20 | As the printing program traverses the semantic net and generates headings on paper , it first looks for a ‘ title ’ attribute . |
| 21 | We take a discrete time model where the individual lives for two periods , working in the first , using savings from the first to provide for retirement , and there are no bequests . |
| 22 | The candidate and unit enrolment data is cumulative in that , for example , the courses enrolled for in 1991–2 will include the new Batch 2 courses first validated for that year — but will also include candidates enrolling for the second cycle of Batch 1 , the third cycle of Phase 2 pilots , etc . |
| 23 | With the race being the first nominated for the Commonwealth Games panel to ride , the 80-strong field contained a big 21 contingent of top riders and they closely marked each other for most of the race . |
| 24 | These are not , however , the same kind of truth ; for the first holds for all time and every place , whereas the second has to do with a specific event which as a matter of fact took place at a particular point in history . |
| 25 | A fashion expert writes : ‘ The Norfolk jacket was first designed for the Duke of Norfolk . |
| 26 | Drescher has not the pervasiveness of Wedgwood 's image of the kneeling slave , first designed for a medallion at the time of the 1788 petition campaign but afterwards widely translated to other formats . |
| 27 | Metcalfe was first dropped for the game against Kent but returned at Basingstoke after two half centuries in a second team match and he was the top aggregate scorer against Hampshire . |
| 28 | Val Robinson , who first played for England back in 1966 , was named player of the match in Great Harwood 's 1-1 draw at Orpington . |
| 29 | His first-class debut was for the Minor Counties against Oxford University in 1939 , but it was not until 1947 that he first played for Surrey , as an aggressive fast-medium bowler , who also liked to give the ball a good whack when batting . |
| 30 | A student of history and politics at Edinburgh University , he was only 17 when he first played for Gala 's senior side and , since then , has achieved a meteoric advance through Scotland 's enviable structure . |