Example sentences of "[vb -s] for the first time " in BNC.

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1 This system , devised by Rentokil 's Research and Development department , offers for the first time a non-chemical , twenty-four hour detection and protection system .
2 The same phrase had been translated and mordantly placed by Dante in Canto XXX of the Purgatorio ; and so , when Hardy in these poems confronts the shade of his recently deceased and estranged wife Emma , not only does Aeneas in Aeneid 6 confront the reproachfully haughty ghost of Dido , but Dante 's pilgrim confronts for the first time the shade or apparition of his lost Beatrice .
3 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 .
4 Forster exposes for the first time , with the official sanction of Du Maurier 's family , her fantasy life , her secret wartime affair , and the many contradictions in this complex woman 's inner life .
5 The new hang has for the first time brought together the figures de fantaisie by Fragonard , the Louvre 's ninety-three Corots , thirty paintings by Chardin and thirteen by Watteau , as well as a rotating selection of the preparatory drawings by Le Brun for his decorative scheme for the Louvre .
6 For example , a recent act of Parliament has for the first time enabled citizens to own and operate radio stations .
7 For example , a recent act of Parliament has for the first time enabled citizens to own and operate radio stations .
8 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 .
9 The UK government has for the first time ruled out the award of oil and gas exploration licences in certain areas on environmental grounds .
10 Ben 's mother Sheila Silcock writes for the first time about her experiences .
11 Boro 's captain Tony Mowbray has a foot injury , so Coleman , a £400,000 buy from Mansfield , starts for the first time .
12 Proudly proclaiming that this recording contains for the first time on one CD all of Bach 's Toccatas and Fugues ( including the Prelude and Fugue in E minor BWV548 ) , it is indeed a well-stocked programme .
13 The availability of sequence data from two mosaic genes of P.wickerhamii mitochondria allows for the first time a comparison of algal intron positions with those from fungi and liverwort .
14 This result allows for the first time , sequence analysis of EF1β and δ proteins , both present in the same complex .
15 The committee , which meets for the first time next Tuesday , is expected to end its deliberations in January .
16 They will have 17 days between the moment when the last result is known and April 27 , when the new Parliament meets for the first time , to gather sufficient support from MPs from minority parties to form a government .
17 When the new Parliament meets for the first time on Monday , April 27 , the first task facing MPs will be to choose a Speaker .
18 When a group of individuals meets for the first time the process of group formation has begun .
19 The working party meets for the first time in July when it will define the terms of reference of the study .
20 He says for the first time in his life , he 's known what life must have been like for the old masters .
21 Conversely , it is also important to realise that if diarrhoea starts again or even occurs for the first time in a patient treated by gluten restriction , the patient should be investigated for colonic disorders , since the answer may not simply or necessarily rest with dietary lapses , an unresponsiveness phase , or lymphoma .
22 The evidence for this assumption seems in the end to be the fact that Taskopruzade uses for the first time in relation to Molla Fenari a distinctly official-sounding title which appears to encompass the entire Ottoman state , namely ; but it must be reiterated that there is no evidence in Taskopruzade 's account to suggest that this appointment occurred in the time of Murad II rather than earlier , perhaps in the time of Mehmed I or even of Bayezid I.
23 Our study describes for the first time the secretory and circulatory changes occurring with the progression of pancreatitis induced by caerulein infusion .
24 This report describes for the first time the changes of UOS pressure that occur during spontaneous gastro-oesophageal reflux in unsedated children .
25 Although the same group of physicists has found good evidence for the production of B mesons at CESR before , this latest result shows for the first time the explicit decay of B mesons into less-rare , longer-lived particles ( Physical Review Letters , vol 50 , p 881 ) .
26 In conclusion , this study shows for the first time that reduced fetal growth is followed by higher death rates from cardiovascular disease in adult life .
27 The current study clearly shows for the first time that PT-gliadin and/or fragments are intracellulary present in normal enterocytes after exposure .
28 And Kylie , after two years travelling the world and using England as a base realises for the first time , this really is a home from home .
29 Once Arthur is in the boat Bedivere realises for the first time that ‘ the true old times are dead ’ .
30 He came first equal in the foot-race This incident raises for the first time a question which is still being debated two and a half thousand years later : were the Macedonians Greeks ? the orators and propagandists of the fifth and fourth centuries do not help for they contradict each other .
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