Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [vb pp] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Fighting was reported for the first time in the east Bosnian towns of Visegrad and Foca , near the Serbian border . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A special austerity programme had reduced the range of consumer goods and foodstuffs , with eggs and bread being rationed for the first time . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | Pirelli confirms a pan-European TV campaign is planned for the first time , positioning the company 's tyre products as chic and high-performance . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Stoddard Templeton 's latest range was unveiled for the first time at the Brighton Carpet Exhibition in February . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Eventually , after years of effort , the mill was run for the first time in 1977 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A night sitter was booked for the first night , with a home care aide to go in several times the following day . |
| 17 | Rowledge First School is usually used as the polling station for Bucks Horn Oak voters , but the venue was changed for the first time this year to the Forestry Commission 's offices in Christmas Tree Yard . |
| 18 | A follow-up CSCE meeting was scheduled for the first week of September . |
| 19 | The annual meeting was attended for the first time by a Soviet delegation led by Viktor Gerashchenko in anticipation of full Soviet membership of the Fund and the Bank . |
| 20 | Jaq imagined arcane astromantic calculations and perversions of Tarot divination — conducted by Carnelian , the Tarot-sneak ? — before this planet was chosen for the first emergence of the entity . |
| 21 | As expected ( UX No 436 ) , Banyan Systems Inc has now signed with IBM Corp 's Advanced Workstation Division to put its Vines for Unix network operating system up on the RS/6000 family — availability is slated for the first quarter of next year . |
| 22 | Availability is pegged for the first quarter . |
| 23 | When this behaviour is seen for the first time , the owners may become seriously concerned , imagining that the cat is having some kind of fit or seizure . |
| 24 | The emergency service was used for the first time on 17th . |
| 25 | The event was held for the first time at the new Purdysburn Hospital Equestrian Centre outside Belfast . |
| 26 | The previous November , the government had assented to the idea of an annual White Paper on expenditure and a debate , the paper being published and the debate being held for the first time in the winter of 1969–70 . |
| 27 | Let us now briefly examine some of the areas into which the scope of EEC authority is extended for the first time . |
| 28 | Sometimes grace periods are granted which means that no repayment of the loan 's principal is required for the first few years . |
| 29 | The whole of Ramsay 's Edinburgh-Rome-London career is examined for the first time , with over one hundred exhibits , including many of his fine drawings . |
| 30 | More important , in 1762 recruitment was made for the first time a direct concern of the government , taking it out of the hands of the regimental officers who had hitherto controlled it . |