Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here is the chance to see the direction alternating for the first time . |
| 2 | Only later , on the negative or the print , would the photographer notice for the first time , say , a sundial on a distant lawn . |
| 3 | This week The Economist appears for the first time in its own new type-face — known as Ecotype . |
| 4 | ‘ One ’ was a word of the Chelsea set for the first person singular , and one might perhaps venture the thought of a pun in the words of the inscription . |
| 5 | The Russian spoke for the first time . |
| 6 | In most cat books , the figure given for the first domestication of the cat is between 3,500 and 4,500 years ago . |
| 7 | More recently , it was impossible to forget how he personally had been let down over the reserves pledged for the first phase at Verdun . |
| 8 | There is , for example , the familiar reference to ‘ playing at Creag ’ ( i.e. Creag-et ) in the wardrobe accounts for the first English Prince of Wales for March 1300 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Committee met for the first time in Edinburgh in October 1979 . |
| 11 | The committee met for the first time on August 12 , to define its aims and draw up a policy programme for the future . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Radius Inc warns that it expects to report a second quarter operating loss larger than its first quarter operating loss , and that second quarter revenues to March 31 will be below the $36.9m reported for the first quarter , when it lost $0.05 per share or $713,000 ; it has seen slowing demand for its Macintosh enhancement products in Europe and to a lesser extent in the US . |
| 14 | Left : With psychological jammed knots in place , the author goes for the first ring on Renaissance ( E2/3 5c ) , Cross Hill , Adrspatch ( photo Graeme Ettle ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Gedge 's parents say the band live for the first time at Manchester 's salubrious Ritz Club . |
| 17 | ELDERLY council tenants living in easily-accessible housing will gain the right to buy for the first time , under a government amendment to be tabled in the House of Lords on Monday . |
| 18 | Under contract from the Business Jets Division of Pan Am , Little Rock Airmotive in Arkansas converted a Standard Falcon into a specialised cargo aircraft , the prototype flying for the first time on 28 Mar 72 . |
| 19 | The Group met for the first time in March 1974 with several proposals already before it . |
| 20 | Setting up the service provides for the first time a national intelligence-gathering operation on organised crime and criminals . |
| 21 | We are very willing to accept that those parts of the judges ' visitorial jurisdiction which were not incident to the administration of justice in the courts passed down through the routes suggested by Sir William and Professor Baker , but in the context of the present case , where the court has for the first time to inquire into the particular function which is being performed , we are not satisfied that the whole of the visitorial jurisdiction passed by this route . |
| 22 | On Dec. 29 the HCR met for the first time since the attempted coup and approved the new Cabinet , whose membership was announced the following day . |
| 23 | The man in the chair spoke for the first time . |
| 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 | Although the accommodation remained spartan with bunk beds arranged in segregated dormitories , nevertheless , at a cost fixed at 1/ per night plus a shilling for breakfast , extended holidays in the countryside became for the first time a practical possibility for thousands previously denied them . |
| 27 | Well , we really got on well together , and when the bell rang for the first round we went on to the first tee and an official is there to check out which clubs and what type of ball Butch is using . |
| 28 | On the first row , you knit the background stitches for the first row of the original pattern , on the second row you knit the pattern stitches for the first row of the original pattern ; row 3 is the pattern stitches for the second row of the original pattern and the fourth row the background stitches for the second row of the original pattern . |
| 29 | He carries the Staff of the Patriarchs made for the first Supreme Patriarch Volans by the warrior mage Fredrick von Tarnus after the Great War against Chaos . |
| 30 | It was therefore at the next Congress in August 1959 in Wiesbaden , Germany , that the BDDA participated for the first time as a member country with an official delegation of ten : Dr Eric Greenaway . |