Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [verb] for the first " in BNC.

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1 We wanted to attract mature students with a high level of skills and commitment and were able , through the Nuffield Foundation , to provide student grants for the first part of the course which either paid for secondment salaries of allowed people who were , for instance working interpreters , to forego part of their normal paid employment .
2 , Principal Inspector of Ancient Monuments , will give an illustrated talk , using specially commissioned slides seen for the first time , on the fascinating story of the oldest Royal Regalia in the British Isles .
3 Clegg , in the first novel , is obsessed from the beginning , after he has heard Miranda speak for the first time , he says ‘ It haunted me .
4 On Sunday she heard Nahum preach for the first time , and she met the assistant curate , a young , delicate-looking man by the name of Daniel Marsh .
5 that you will enter ports seen for the first time
6 Local pupils have taken a great interest in the British Gas work , which is bringing gas supplies for the first time to the Bere Alston and Bere Ferrers communities , where more than a third of the 1042 homes in the area have taken up the offer of gas .
7 The Shanghai stock exchange was reported by the Financial Times of Oct. 23 to have gained approval to offer for the first time to foreign investors shares worth $35,000,000-50,000,000 in the state-owned Shanghai Vacuum , the biggest quoted company on the exchange .
8 After being pegged at 4–4 following the first frame of the evening session , Hendry raised his game to collect the £40,000 first prize — and become Masters champion for the first time .
9 To support these managers he established a marketing department , improved the financial system and introduced business planning for the first time to AEA .
10 Ripley 's failure was part of a team malfunction that left Blackburn beaten for the first time away from home in the League .
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