Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun] for [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was not consulted about membership of the Group , and with the exception of Dr Charles Suckling , a member of the Kingman Committee , I met the members for the first time when we assembled in London for our opening working session . |
| 2 | Breeze now met the Vicar for the first time , and thought he was one of the most unconventional people she had ever seen . |
| 3 | On Monday , the managing director , Jacques Calvet , met the unions for the first time but said there could be no discussion of pay until production was resumed . |
| 4 | As Mr Urbanec met the opposition for the first time , it appeared increasingly likely that his predecessor , Mr Milos Jakes , would eventually find himself behind bars . |
| 5 | Wordsworth writes as if he is a new kind of human being , like Adam naming the creatures for the first time . |
| 6 | Having calculated the profit for the first six months discuss whether the profit figure is a useful benchmark for measuring the performance of the business , and also whether it is useful as a guide to future profitability . |
| 7 | Ali failed to go the route for the first time in his career . |
| 8 | When using the machine for the first time , the manufacturers advise that the machine should be filled to capacity and then emptied , before re-filling and stripping . |
| 9 | Detective Chief Superintendent Wycliffe and his wife , Helen , were to see the spectacle for the first time ; they were spending a long weekend with the Ballards , who lived on the moor above the town . |
| 10 | Equally , almost half had come to see the company for the first time . |
| 11 | He remembered her ripping it the day she 'd taken him to see the hens for the first time . |
| 12 | Eric Alston 's sprinter led the field for the first Sunday race at Doncaster a merry dance under Lester Piggott for just over five furlongs before fading behind Savoyard . |
| 13 | Turakina behaved as if she was seeing the offworlder for the first time . |
| 14 | He had often imagined seeing the enemy for the first time , but it was strange how very commonplace and yet how exciting this baptism was . |
| 15 | Acceptance came when their eldest daughter , Claire , then aged five , expressed her delight at seeing the twins for the first time and said simply : ‘ Oh look Mammy , they 're stuck together . ’ |
| 16 | It 's usual to hang ceiling paper parallel with the main window in the room , but if you 're tackling the job for the first time and the room is noticeably shorter in one dimension , you may find it easier to manage shorter lengths and hang it the other way . |
| 17 | These two dimensions provided the basis for the first coherent theories about the connections between the peoples of the world . |
| 18 | The main opposition party , the right-wing Community party ( Atassut ) , lost three seats , leaving it with eight , as some of its support went over to the Centre Party , which entered the legislature for the first time with two seats . |
| 19 | He had forgotten the incident , however , the moment they entered the jungle for the first time , riding on the little saddle ponies which Devraux 's Moi bearers had brought to the road from the hunting camp . |
| 20 | The right-wing Popular Party ( PP ) improved its position and the Alava Union ( UA ) , a new provincial splinter group of PP , entered the parliament for the first time . |
| 21 | The SPÖ won 47.7 per cent of the vote and 52 seats ( 54.9 per cent and 62 seats at the last elections in November 1987 — see p. 35792 ) ; the FPÖ won 22.6 per cent and 23 seats ( 9.7 per cent and eight seats in 1987 ) ; the Austrian People 's Party ( ÖVP ) won 18.1 per cent and 18 seats ( 28.4 per cent and 30 seats in 1987 ) ; and the Green Alternatives won over 9 per cent and thus entered the parliament for the first time with seven seats ( having won just under 5 per cent in 1987 ) . |
| 22 | Launched by the Princess of Wales in 1988 , the hospice entered the Awards for the first time using its 1990 accounts which covered its first operational year with a full complement of staff . |
| 23 | On Nov. 29 the new Prime Minister carried out a large-scale reorganization of the ( now all-male ) Cabinet , retaining Hurd as Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary and appointing Norman Lamont as Chancellor of the Exchequer , while Heseltine became Environment Secretary ( a post which he had held under Thatcher in 1979-83 ) and two ministers entered the Cabinet for the first time : Ian Lang and David Mellor . |
| 24 | ‘ It would be terrific if we could win the title for the first time in 25 years . ’ |
| 25 | ROBERT Woodside won the final round of the Northern Ireland hillclimb championship at Cairncastle on the Antrim coast yesterday to secure the title for the first time . |
| 26 | There are promotions for David Hunt to the employment department , for Gillian Shephard to agriculture and for John Redwood , the Thatcherite and cerebral local-government minister who joins the cabinet for the first time as Welsh secretary . |
| 27 | This ‘ residual charge ’ can be a hazard if you are careless when opening the packaging for the first time . |
| 28 | Climbing the hill for the first time Whiggie Geo dropped back and Bradley decided to try to make the rest of the running . |
| 29 | This means that initial conditions need to be specified so as to provide the data for the first set of calculations . |
| 30 | It paves the way for the first national lottery in the UK since 1826 . |