Example sentences of "the first [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may be the first challenger for Lennox , so it 's not surprising that I 'm behind Bowe . ’ |
| 2 | But he was in a sense revivified : his heart withstood the weakening effect of his illnesses much better than it had done in the same period of the previous year , and this was the first winter for some time when he had not been forced to seek treatment in a clinic . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , this is the first winter for a long time in which Lowa has no distribution in Britain but I dare say someone will fill the gap before long . |
| 4 | First , 1927 is the first year for which a full set of figures is available . |
| 5 | ‘ We 're still investing more than HP is in development , so our bottom line profits are less , but this will be the first year for the RS/6000 that we make at least $1 net profit . ’ |
| 6 | Remove flower stems in the first year for a stronger bushier plant . |
| 7 | And the first deadline for applications for B T three shares expires in a few hours time . |
| 8 | I 've done the first bit for you . |
| 9 | the first test for them the giant slalom … a three quarter of a mile long downhill race … just like ski-ing … and after the downpour this morning it was just as slippy for the bikes … |
| 10 | the first test for them the giant slalom … a three quarter of a mile long downhill race … just like ski-ing … and after the downpour this morning it was just as slippy for the bikes … |
| 11 | They occupied a room on the first floor for three hours before being evicted . |
| 12 | Corporate Wedgwood has also received the first order for its new Caspian pattern for Amberley Castle , Arundel — the only 900-year-old castle in the world which is used as an hotel . |
| 13 | Lord Mansfield , the First Commissioner for the Crown Estate , welcomed the change , describing it as just and fair . |
| 14 | In April industrial production rose by 0.1% , the first increase for seven months ; retail sales fell by only 0.1% , after a big upward revision for March which transformed a 0.8% fall into a 0.4% rise . |
| 15 | The man chosen was Russell Butler , a research student in social history at the University of London , who as a part-time tutor had taken the first course for apprentices at Marconi and had greatly impressed both here and in other courses for the branches in Hemel Hempstead and St. Albans . |
| 16 | Continental manufacturers like Ferrari , Mercedes-Benz and Maserati were invincible in the early years of the championship but , when the first championship for manufacturers was introduced in 1958 , it was the British-made Vanwall that took the title . |
| 17 | BISHOP KONSTANT donned a hard hat on a building site to cut the first turf for a new £1.2 million hall of residence at Trinity and All Saints , Horsforth , a College of the University of Leeds . |
| 18 | Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley dug the first turf for the new £36m hospital back in November 1990 . |
| 19 | Both now faced trial before a civilian court , the first trial for offences committed under the military regime since Chile 's return to democracy in 1990 [ for full background to the Letelier case see pp. 28273-74 ; 34989 ; 36097 ; 37709 ; 37914 ; 38719 ] . |
| 20 | If markets fail to allocate resources efficiently because of the existence of externalities , then the first prerequisite for efficient government intervention is making good the market 's informational failures . |
| 21 | Her monument consists of her Journals , which record the ordinary details of day-to-day life with her brother and help us to understand how the poems were created , for frequently the first idea for a poem is to be found in them . |
| 22 | Harry Foster , whose 102 not out was the first century for Harrow in this fixture since 1978 , had an unbroken fourth-wicket stand of 196 with James Renshaw ( 80 not out ) as Harrow scored 209 for 3 dec . |
| 23 | It was the first opportunity for a small celebration . |
| 24 | The first opportunity for exercising primatial authority in Wales had arisen during the vacancy at Canterbury shortly before Anselm became archbishop . |
| 25 | It was also the first opportunity for the Sandinistas to assess their opposition role after losing elections in February 1990 to the right-wing National Opposition Union ( UNO ) coalition of President Violeta Chamorro de Barrios [ see p. 37236 ] . |
| 26 | The tour provided the first opportunity for many years for people to call openly for the restoration of human rights , legalization of political parties and the scrapping of the Tinkhundla ( chieftancy ) system [ see p. 38048 ] . |
| 27 | The poll , which had provided the first opportunity for the union 's 1,600,000 membership to elect directly its national officers , had been organized as part of a settlement agreement to a huge civil racketeering suit brought against the Teamsters by the Justice Department [ see also pp. 37954-55 ] . |
| 28 | We are a bit tired of getting up early ( breakfast 7.30 , start teaching at 8.30 — and that 's a concession to us lazy foreigners , since teaching starts at 8 normally here ) so Comrade Wu kindly arranged for us to have breakfast in our rooms today — the first opportunity for a lie-in we 've had ! |
| 29 | and also er setting up the first assignment for you . |
| 30 | In 1988 , Andrei Kataev and two other physicists at the Institute of Nuclear Research in Moscow published the first calculation for routes which involve three gluons ( Physics Letters B , vol 212 , p 238 ) . |