Example sentences of "being [vb pp] [prep] the first [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A special austerity programme had reduced the range of consumer goods and foodstuffs , with eggs and bread being rationed for the first time .
2 Every activity in the left-hand path is treated as if it were being undertaken for the first time .
3 Although some horses will travel in horse trailers as if it is second nature to them , even without having any previous related experience ; and some horses will stand perfectly and quietly for the farrier when they are being shod for the first time ; many will not !
4 It is not that the question of the ordination of women is being considered for the first time in our day !
5 The Education Act of 1944 , for example , led to the majority of rural school children being educated for the first time outside their own village after the age of eleven .
6 Each controversial assertion is treated as if it were being made for the first time .
7 He was Jacob Hart , 12 , who was responsible for Hook , Stephen Spielberg 's £65 million modern Peter Pan story , being written in the first place .
8 It tells the story of an engineer who loses his job because of the effects of being gassed during the First World War .
9 he holds by virtue of being connected with the first company ;
10 In what is being seen as the first licensing by Apple Computer Inc of its Macintosh technology , the company has signed an OEM agreement that enables Honeywell Inc to use the Mac interface in avionics systems : Honeywell will use the technology to drive management information systems for commercial airline cockpits , building an Electronic Library System incorporating an adapted avionics version of Apple 's Macintosh Quadra 800 high-end box .
11 The Government 's insistence that the Channel tunnel rail link be privately-financed is being seen as the first stage in a longer term plan to privatise the entire British Rail network .
12 Young ladies being presented for the first time were known as debutantes .
13 Common sense requires one to recognize that the most significant things were what was being said for the first time , at least in that form , in modern Catholic history and with such authority .
14 The facts involved the plaintiff construction company , carrying on business in Kuwait , which had bought a quantity of heavy duty pails with waterproofing compound , the latter being manufactured by the first defendants .
15 These pilot events have been developed , in conjunction with the Department of Industrial and Social Studies , to form the core of a new elective module ‘ Team Development in Practice ’ being offered for the first time in semester one 1993/94 .
16 For example , the 1987/88 Programme of Work included a major review of the modules in Personal and Social Development ( PSD ) ; the fruits of this review appeared in the catalogue last April and the new and revised modules are being used for the first time this session .
17 Roman bronze coins of the early second century BC were still being used in the first century AD , and very little bronze coinage was made between about 150 and 20BC .
18 It is the combination of being told for the first time that you have coronary disease with the need for an emergency procedure , for example , an angiogram .
19 And successful treatment is prolonging the lives of affected people — but not dealing with the causes or preventing them being affected in the first place .
20 In February 1990 , by which time he had moved to become manager of West Ham , Macari became embroiled in financial scandals dating back to his years at Swindon and eventually ended in the newly promoted club being relegated from the First Division to the Third , a draconian punishment which was partially decreased on appeal .
21 Swindon were facing financial ruin after being relegated from the first division last season …
22 Most catalogues begin , usually with some proud and flamboyant phraseology , by describing the new varieties being introduced for the first time , and invariably , because they are the kinds that get most of the breeders ' attentions , these will be H.T.s and Floribundas .
23 The requirements for safe glazing is being provided for the first time , but do not apply to glazing which is being replaced .
24 If you supply the identifier of a Paper SPR that is being updated for the first time , a warning message will be displayed .
25 It was as if our vision was a piece of elastic which was being stretched for the first time after a long period in a drawer .
26 As far as the kadiliks are concerned , the original mevleviyet kadiliks appear to have been the kadiliks of the three Ottoman capitals , Istanbul , Edirne and Bursa , this number being increased in the first Instance through the acquisition of other important cities by conquest or other means .
27 Yet after being annihilated in the first Test , England showed they could still fight .
28 he 's going , so busy looking on what 's going on behind the question that 's being asked , that you never answer the question that you 're being asked in the first place .
29 Wembley is a virtual sell-out with the Mohawks game being followed by the first division championship final .
30 The party 's Anglican commitment was as firm as ever before 1914 , even though it was being led for the first time by a man who was not an Anglican himself .
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