Example sentences of "[noun] be [vb pp] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Serum calcium and albumin concentrations were measured for the first 7 days and at least weekly for 4 weeks after treatment . |
| 2 | During the relaying of this track , the Marton trams operated in a complete circle , returning to Talbot Square via Royal Oak and Lytham Road , while the St. Annes blue cars were diverted for the first time to the Promenade at Talbot Square . |
| 3 | If the answer turns out to be by a ‘ dock identification ’ ( i.e. the witness is identified for the first time in court ) then it must be remembered that this procedure is potentially so unfair to the accused that the court of trial retains a discretion to prevent it ( Horsham JJ. , ex p . |
| 4 | Ostenecrosis was mentioned for the first time when the patient was seen by an orthopaedic surgeon with new radiographs ( see Figs 1 and 3 ) 30 months after the first bowel symptoms . |
| 5 | The extensive studies on removal and transplantation of the ovaries by Knauer in Vienna ( see Chapter 5 ) appeared in 1900 and the more general concept of hormones or blood-borne chemical messengers was elaborated for the first time by Starling in his Croonian lectures a decade after Beatson 's observations ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 6 | Fighting was reported for the first time in the east Bosnian towns of Visegrad and Foca , near the Serbian border . |
| 7 | PRIME Ministerial blood was drawn for the first time in the election campaign yesterday when Mr Major was hit by an egg thrown from close range . |
| 8 | It became the permanent home of the German race with the exception of 1959 when the race was staged at Avus , and 1970 when Hockenheim was used for the first time . |
| 9 | Belt loops were specified for the first time , and the khaki trousers were not to bear branch-coloured leg stripes . |
| 10 | A special austerity programme had reduced the range of consumer goods and foodstuffs , with eggs and bread being rationed for the first time . |
| 11 | They were soon copied by the French , who developed formations of this kind on a large scale from the 1760s onwards , while light infantry were used for the first time in Europe by the Russians at the siege of Kolberg in 1761 . |
| 12 | The plates were developed for the first migration in a solvent saturated chamber consisting of chloroform/methanol/ammonium hydrate/water 184:105:7.5:7.5 vol and then dried in cold air . |
| 13 | Along with the technology came the new scientific breed of brewers , and the skills of brewing chemists , administrators and engineers were harnessed for the first time . |
| 14 | Her eye for the natural scene is revealed for the first time in her ‘ Alfoxden Journal ’ ( 1798 ) , the first fruit of the creative partnership between brother and sister which is celebrated at the climax of Wordsworth 's ‘ Tintern Abbey ’ . |
| 15 | Pirelli confirms a pan-European TV campaign is planned for the first time , positioning the company 's tyre products as chic and high-performance . |
| 16 | Swedish certainties David Platt and Paul Parker return after missing the win over France , while John Barnes is included for the first time this season . |
| 17 | But then the scene was set for the first of Darlington 's structural engineering companies to install a series of iron bridges on the rapidly expanding rail networks . |
| 18 | Stoddard Templeton 's latest range was unveiled for the first time at the Brighton Carpet Exhibition in February . |
| 19 | WELSH RUGBY was united for the first time in the last few stormy months when the 203 member clubs of the Welsh Rugby Union decided to sever playing links with South Africa last night . |
| 20 | St Servatius church in Maastricht was restored for the first time in AD 725 . |
| 21 | Eventually , after years of effort , the mill was run for the first time in 1977 . |
| 22 | Targets for reducing the death toll from heart disease , cancer and other illnesses were set for the first time last year , yet little has happened since then , the British Medical Association said yesterday . |
| 23 | A Christmas tree was put up in Moscow 's Red Square for the first time , and on Christmas Eve the bells of St Basil 's Cathedral in Red Square were rung for the first time since 1917 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Representatives of the United Kingdom and Argentine governments were joined for the first time by a Falklands official in talks on fishing controls held in the Argentinian capital , Buenos Aires , in May 1991 . |
| 26 | The national selectors indicated before England 's unexpected success in the HDM international tournament at The Hague that they wanted to test other members of their squad before the team is announced for the first official internationals of the season , the Four Nation tournament at Crystal Palace in a month 's time . |
| 27 | Formal announcement is not expected before the autumn , and the product is planned for the first half of next year , with the prime target market seen as MS-DOS users that have not yet succumbed to the blandishments of Windows and might otherwise jump straight to NT . |
| 28 | When a direct file is loaded for the first time , we may have little or no information about the individual records that make it up . |
| 29 | In France the post of Secretary of State for War was given for the first time to a soldier ( the Maréchal de Belle-Isle ) in 1758 ; and in the second half of the century there was a slow but steady tendency for the most important officials concerned , the intendants d'armées and the contrôleurs des guerres , to be military men . |
| 30 | A night sitter was booked for the first night , with a home care aide to go in several times the following day . |