Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] for [art] first time " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 The Committee met for the first time in Edinburgh in October 1979 .
3 The committee met for the first time on August 12 , to define its aims and draw up a policy programme for the future .
4 It is true , however , that taken as a whole , the 1947 Act created for the first time a comprehensive framework for planning and thereby laid the groundwork for a permanent and highly significant change in the public attitude to private property and its use and development .
5 The act established for the first time the statutory definition of a medical practitioner , together with a register and a General Medical Council to watch over conduct and education .
6 The Group met for the first time in March 1974 with several proposals already before it .
7 This body met for the first time in May 1989 and elected from its members the bicameral 542-member Supreme Soviet — the working constitutional body responsible for all legislative and administrative matters — consisting of the Soviet of the Union and the Soviet of Nationalities .
8 The new body met for the first time , in the building of the suspended National Assembly , on April 25 .
9 In 1851 , which , with symbolic appropriateness , was the year in which a hungry urban population exceeded for the first time the population of the countryside , drainage-minded landlords up from the shires were able to carry away a wealth of interesting ideas from the Great Exhibition .
10 The drilling provided for the first time borehole information on the age and evolution of the Great Barrier Reef Pore morphology was seen to be a control on both the resistivity and velocity logs , and when combined with Formation Micro Scanner data , should enable laboratory research to provide the basis of enhanced geological interpretation of the downhole geophysical logs .
11 Kawasaki Steel Corp displayed for the first time the Universe FR fault-resilient computer which it sells under a distribution arrangement with Charles River Data Systems , Framingham , Massachusetts .
12 Babies were not the only people whose rights were being demanded at the end of the Second World War ; other groups , too , submerged in anonymous poverty through years of unemployment , had in wartime received for the first time their fair share both of work and of food , and were now making it clear that neither malnutrition nor the grinding degradation of worklessness could any longer be tolerated by the ‘ lower classes ’ of the victorious nations .
13 Contact made for the first time last night .
14 GRAHAM TAYLOR last night revealed for the first time what Paul Gascoigne 's return means to him .
15 When the new Assembly met for the first time on Sept. 24 , seven opposition members refused to take their seats , claiming that the election had been rigged .
16 Mr Fordy was speaking on the day the town 's magistrates court dealt for the first time with truckers who had ignored the 7.5 tonne weight restriction .
17 The hardline leadership admitted for the first time it regretted the exodus , admitted there were problems and conceded it might be partly to blame .
18 Industrialization created for the first time a new political force in the mass of factory workers .
19 Their obligation to be honest with each other outweighed for the first time whatever they owed to anyone else .
20 The new parliament convened for the first time on June 9 .
21 The High Authority met for the first time in the autumn of 1952 , and immediately set about trying to turn the principles of the Treaty of Paris into practical results .
22 The new Cabinet met for the first time on June 12 and Shamir attempted to head off Arab-led calls for a special UN Security Council team to visit the West Bank and Gaza [ see p. 37443 ] by proposing that a UN envoy , Jean-Claude Aimé , should visit the area in their place .
23 Wehave shown for the first time that small intestinal and whole gut transit is faster in patients with chronic radiation enteritis .
24 In a long statement read out on television after the evening news programme , the Politburo admitted for the first time that it was ‘ not indifferent ’ to the mass exodus of its people to West Germany .
25 In a long statement read out on television after the evening news , the Politburo admitted for the first time that it was ‘ not indifferent ’ to the mass exodus of its people to West Germany .
26 A new insurance policy launched for the first time at the London Boat Show might be just the thing many long distance sailors are looking for .
27 Through it , government addressed for the first time the issue of the long-stay population in all the institutions for elderly , mentally handicapped and mentally ill people .
28 On the twenty fourth July nineteen ninety one the new resources and policy grant sub-committee met for the first time and considered a number of applications including one from your organisation .
29 On Jan. 27 the Pakistan government announced for the first time its full support for the UN peace plan [ see p. 38194 ] and the conference , and called upon the mujaheddin to follow its lead .
30 The Supreme Court 's July ruling admitted for the first time in 16 years the right of individual states to restrict abortions during the first six months of pregnancy .
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