Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [noun] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suicide For Love is adapted by Matsuyo Akimoto from three plays by the 17th century writer Chikamatsu Monzaemon and Ninagawa 's production involves 73 actors , a swirling snow storm and a river on stage — the company , with true Japanese courtesy , provide plastic macs for the first two rows of spectators . |
| 2 | This would especially be the case , it would seem , if a company were contemplating a move to total quality control for the first time . |
| 3 | When the future Cardinal Richelieu entered government service for the first time in 1616 he found available so little essential documentation on foreign policy that he had to ask French representatives abroad to send him copies of the instructions they had been given : without this he could not know even what the policies of his immediate predecessor had been . |
| 4 | Yesterday both Scots put the nightmare of Barcelona behind them , and made their dreams of becoming world champions for the first time come true . |
| 5 | Boots The chemist are to open pharmacy concessions for the first time in seven JS branches in late July . |
| 6 | There have also been symbolic measures ( such as restoring pay beds in NHS facilities ) , minor cuts ( such as withdrawal of supplementary benefits in vacations for students ) , some marginal privatization ( from 1986 employers were made responsible for paying sickness benefit for the first 28 weeks of an employee 's absence from work ) , tougher criteria ( people have to be ‘ actually seeking work ’ to be entitled to receive unemployment benefit and since 1 988 housing benefit is paid to fewer households ) , and an increase in the numbers relying on private medical insurance ( from 4 to 8 per cent since 1979 ) . |
| 7 | The long-established tendency for national populations to become more concentrated in large metropolitan centres and their surrounding hinterlands was found to be interrupted , if not broken : major cities were losing population not just from their older inner areas but from their whole city regions , while more remote rural areas with a history of depopulation began to record population growth for the first time for decades ( Morrison and Wheeler , 1976 ; Vining and Strauss , 1977 ; Vining and Kontuly , 1978 ; Brown and Wardwell , 1980 ; Fielding , 1982 ) . |
| 8 | Mr Robin Cook , shadow Health Secretary , said : ‘ We could not have chosen a better issue to put centre stage for the first televised session of Parliament . ’ |
| 9 | To illustrate this , let us imagine Heinrich Hertz , in 1888 , performing the electrical experiment that enabled him to produce and detect radio waves for the first time . |
| 10 | She went onto the Sunday Times hardcover bestseller list for the first time . |
| 11 | In a major government reorganization in Croatia on Aug. 1 Tudjman included opposition politicians for the first time in a new " government of democratic unity " which continued to be dominated by the Croatian Democratic Union ( HDZ ) with 11 out of 27 posts . |
| 12 | Similarly in Britain all the major parties changed their voting procedures in the 1960s and 1970s either to democratize leadership succession for the first time ( in the Conservative party ) or to broaden the franchise used to select leaders away from MPs to include party organizations outside Parliament ( in the case of Labour and the Liberals ) . |
| 13 | Note : sandstone grades are for on-sight ascents using rope knots for the first time . |
| 14 | While making it easier for people to build up considerable capital assets , and to pass these on intact , the Government has taken a number of measures that have allowed many people to acquire capital assets for the first time . |
| 15 | The never-say-die 69 year-old widower is also taking piano lessons for the first time . |
| 16 | Deploying fighter aircraft for the first time since the 1991 Gulf war , with some flights north of the 36th parallel ( i.e. over the Kurdish " safe haven " area ) , the Iraqis also built up in early April their deployment of ground forces , surface-to-air missiles and radar tracking equipment directed north of the 36th parallel , apparently seeking to capitalize on US inaction over " skirmishes " with the Kurds . |
| 17 | The Railway Inspectorate gave safety clearance for the first section of the 20-mile network just 27 months after design and construction started , although the opening was postponed several times because of engineering problems , staff training and general fine-tuning . |
| 18 | In the depth of the recession , with the motor industry suffering more than most , Rover is introducing night shifts for the first time in three years . |
| 19 | For example , it was pointed out to me that some teachers were making lesson notes for the first time in years ! |
| 20 | It was in the corresponding race last year , held at Gateshead , that she returned to top class competition for the first time since giving birth to daughter Rachel . |
| 21 | The company now intends shipping production code for the first time this week , saying it has hundreds of orders . |
| 22 | It intends shipping production code for the first time this week , saying it has hundreds of orders . |
| 23 | Alongside the new universities themselves , starting their degree courses from scratch and employing large numbers of sometimes rather dubiously qualified new lecturers , there was a parallel development in the polytechnics , many of them offering degree courses for the first time , and devising courses in subjects such as literature , languages , and philosophy that had nothing whatever to do with the technology-based courses for which they had first been invented . |
| 24 | Sucking in a deep lungful of smoke , he looked back at the fiercely blazing funeral pyre for the first time . |