Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] for [art] [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 You can use this function to wait for a specified time for a key to be pressed .
2 The statutory recognition of auditors ' resignation occurred for the first time in the Companies Act 1976 , prior to which resignation would have constituted a de facto breach of contract .
3 For example , a recent act of Parliament has for the first time enabled citizens to own and operate radio stations .
4 For example , a recent act of Parliament has for the first time enabled citizens to own and operate radio stations .
5 Here is the chance to see the direction alternating for the first time .
6 Worried managers made the decision after the computer crashed for the second time in 10 days .
7 Organ jazz has for a long time been club-trendy but it has taken until now for a new artist to come through to match the likes of Jimmy Smith and ‘ Big ’ John Patton with whom she shares a clear affinity in her choice of rhythms and blues inflections .
8 Manager Kenny Shiels , watching his side win for the first time since the opening day of the season , feels that it 's not an impossible dream .
9 Manager Kenny Shiels , watching his side win for the first time since the opening day of the season , feels that it 's not an impossible dream .
10 The IAC reported for the last time in January this year and , under the terms of the 1990 continuation order , the 1987 Act is due to expire on 31 March 1992 .
11 A critic walking for the first time into a gallery may describe a colour in a picture as blue ; it will have been the scrupulous task of a conservator to have established that the particular colour in question was Prussian blue , and thus can not date before the eighteenth century .
12 Our study describes for the first time the secretory and circulatory changes occurring with the progression of pancreatitis induced by caerulein infusion .
13 The availability of sequence data from two mosaic genes of P.wickerhamii mitochondria allows for the first time a comparison of algal intron positions with those from fungi and liverwort .
14 This result allows for the first time , sequence analysis of EF1β and δ proteins , both present in the same complex .
15 Although the same group of physicists has found good evidence for the production of B mesons at CESR before , this latest result shows for the first time the explicit decay of B mesons into less-rare , longer-lived particles ( Physical Review Letters , vol 50 , p 881 ) .
16 In conclusion , this study shows for the first time that reduced fetal growth is followed by higher death rates from cardiovascular disease in adult life .
17 Catholicism is presented as a potential remedy , but the philosophy of indeterminacy appears for the first time in this novel as a rival discourse .
18 The formative period from 1850 to 1914 witnessed the birth of a clearly identifiable movement , with labour organising for the first time on a massive scale .
19 They will have 17 days between the moment when the last result is known and April 27 , when the new Parliament meets for the first time , to gather sufficient support from MPs from minority parties to form a government .
20 When the new Parliament meets for the first time on Monday , April 27 , the first task facing MPs will be to choose a Speaker .
21 Paintings erm have the power to take you back in time , I can look at a painting and remember something that 's happened yesterday or years and years ago and as a small child , looking at this painting I remembered as a small child seeing for the first time erm the sea dipping into er , sorry the sun dipping into , into the sea and being horrified I was convinced that the heat of the sun would boil the oceans and the world dry and it reminded me for an awful lot of my childhood and I 'm sure if I 'd seen this painting years ago it would of persuaded me otherwise , erm this is called In A Days Work Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat
22 He had been crouched on the first-floor landing for a long time , peering through the banister rails to the kitchen at the end of the lower corridor , listening to the ebb and flow of their conversation .
23 Two days passed , and on Sunday , 16 December , the schooner tried for a second time to get to Fort Davey but was forced back .
24 Best editor seen for a long time .
25 Georgia attended an NACC meeting for the first time , Albania was also admitted as a member , and Finland attended as an observer .
26 Early in 1914 , the Board felt it advisable to appoint a House Committee to deal with the day-to-day affairs of the Institution , and the committee met for the first time on 28th April with Mr. W. T. Lansberry in the chair .
27 The Committee met for the first time in Edinburgh in October 1979 .
28 The committee met for the first time on August 12 , to define its aims and draw up a policy programme for the future .
29 British sport began for the first time to embrace commercialism , although the process was cautious and gradual .
30 The Legal Services Committee continued in 1992 where it left off in 1991 and in January 1992 representatives of the committee appeared for the third time before the Lord Chancellor 's Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct .
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