Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under a new law , proposed during the fifth session of the eighth National Assembly ( which convened in Hanoi on June 20-30 , 1989 ) , non-CPV members were allowed to stand as candidates for the first time . |
| 2 | Wilcox looked startled , caught off balance for the first time . |
| 3 | Prime Minister Mouloud Hamrouche , who was to stand for election for the first time , said that the ruling National Liberation Front ( FLN ) might consider entering into a coalition with one of the secular opposition parties , either before or after the election . |
| 4 | THE QUESTION of just who would even want to be a partner with the US was underlined last night as the American Administration headed for default for the first time in its history . |
| 5 | Ernst Richter was the latest recruit from the academy , having arrived the previous day , and he had been assigned to work with Mauer for the first month so that his temperament and personality could be assessed to ensure that later on he would be paired with the right partner . |
| 6 | Later on in the morning , a class of 15 and 16 year olds is painting in oils for the first time . |
| 7 | ( It is also relevant to Athenian fears that , as Livy tells us under the year 431 , Carthage now encroached in Sicily for the first time , iv.29.8 with R. M. Ogilvie ( 1965 ) Commentary on Livy i-v , Oxford . ) |
| 8 | Some black children may have had their first experience of Jamaican Creole from reggae lyrics , while others may have been attracted to Creole for the first time because of the music . |
| 9 | HOPES of a rapid economic recovery were dealt another blow yesterday when unemployment rose to 2.7m for the first time in almost five years . |
| 10 | This is one of three drawings of Lopokova by Picasso , the latter having come to London for the first time to work on designs and sets for Massine 's Le Tricorne , writes Joanna Gibbon . |
| 11 | Many Irish women , including myself , who had come to England for the first time were truly shocked by the levels of anti-Irish racism directed at us . |
| 12 | After all , she was returning to competition for the first time in five years . |
| 13 | Coventry v Southampton Having just won at Liverpool for the first time , Coventry ought to be in the mood to take Southampton even though the latter have lost only once in a dozen games . |
| 14 | Child benefit will be frozen at £9.65 for the first child and £7.80 for others when Chancellor Norman Lamont unveils next year 's spending package . |
| 15 | In this phase , too , the ideological obsessions , the immorality and criminality of the regime , and — as Germany came under pressure for the first time — the draconian repression of the police state , were becoming more and more evident , and could increasingly be recognized by the ordinary civilian population . |
| 16 | Revenues per employee has risen above $300,000 for the first time . |
| 17 | The exhibition , running until 27 June , comprises 130 items from French and Spanish collections including vessels carved in semiprecious stones and mounted in enamelled and jewelled gold , from the ‘ tresor ’ of the Grand Dauphin , presented in France for the first time since the eighteenth century , and works by French painters such as Michel-Ange Houasse , Louis-Michel Van Loo and Jean Ranc and sculptors Rene Fremin and Jean Thierry , who were commissioned by Philip to decorate his palaces . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , Apple is predicting that it will have at least 70% of Macintosh applications recoded in time for the first batch of volume PowerPCs to hit the streets in 1993 , using AT&T Bell Laboratories spin-off , the Holmdel , New Jersey-based Echo Logic Inc , to do the recompiling . |
| 19 | In 1947 the Methodist Conference met in Portadown for the first time . |
| 20 | PETER SCHMEICHEL arrives in London for the first time this season convinced Manchester United can become the first Premier League champions . |
| 21 | These potatoes are round and white , a new Dutch strain , being grown in Britain for the first time this year . |
| 22 | I was living on adrenaline for the first couple of weeks . |
| 23 | The board meets on Thursday for the first time since the row began and Mr Hussey , Mr Birt and Lord Barnett will be asked to explain the situation . |
| 24 | Mr Major , about to return to Number 10 after his Portuguese holiday , was urged to take a firm grip over Cabinet trouble-makers , when it meets on Thursday for the first time since July . |
| 25 | The son came to England for the first time in 1922 as a Rhodes scholar . |
| 26 | It was in the spring of 1956 that Elizabeth came to Greece for the first time , on a cruise . |
| 27 | It began in April 1820 , when we came to Haworth for the first time … |
| 28 | Before Christmas many of the shops had to open on Sundays for the first time just to try to make up for the terrible year . |
| 29 | Together the two are priced at $10,000 for the first copy . |
| 30 | It was the following year that the ghost was seen at Althorp for the first time . |