Example sentences of "[verb] for the first [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Commanded by Gen. Satish Nambiar of the Indian army , the force included contingents from 30 countries including for the first time Security Council permanent members France , Russia and the United Kingdom . |
| 2 | By this stage the Committee for Science and Technology had twelve subject boards , and was approving courses in new subject and interdisciplinary areas , many described as of ‘ considerable industrial importance ’ — including for the first time instrumentation and control engineering , and computer systems engineering . |
| 3 | So they would actually be in a lesson with tutors we would nominate who you 'd want them to go in with so I 'm not saying do it now you 've all got your programmes I assume , sorted for the first half term anyway an erm , pretty well tied up , should be erm so really it 's down to saying who they 're gon na go in with er |
| 4 | A quick dust , to get rid of the cobwebs , and it 's off to the track , adrenalin pumping , because that time has come for the first track workout of the summer . |
| 5 | Those schools selected for the first quality audit in mathematics or science have recently been asked to supply 12 pieces of work from across the entire year group reflecting the spread of the ability range . |
| 6 | Our findings reveal for the first time death rates of babies born before term who survive into late adult life , although duration of gestation was recorded for only half of the men . |
| 7 | His mother was bending over the baby in the basketwork cradle his father had made for the first Wooldridge child , and she was mopping the fevered little body with a damp cloth . |
| 8 | Strangely , it was later used for the first city telegraph ! |
| 9 | A line creeping forward , and a rabble of men leaving the hatch and hurrying for the first bench place they could find . |
| 10 | But , Alfa Romeo returned to racing for the first World Championship in 1950 , he was invited to join their team and he finished second in the inaugural championship , having won the Monaco , Belgian and French Grands Prix . |
| 11 | Instead , the variety of functions of the youth services are described in pedagogical rather than purely bureaucratic terms , giving for the first time recognition to the specific professional skills and capacities of social workers ( Gernert , 1990 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She could recall the excitement of spending for the first time money she had actually earned . |
| 14 | ( The Abbey 's building and contents insurance must be taken out to qualify for the first time buyer 's discount ) . |
| 15 | The quality of consular services was improved in a number of cases , notably in Britain where a departmental committee of 1903 introduced for the first time recruitment of consuls by limited competition ( instead of as hitherto purely by nomination of the secretary of state for foreign affairs ) and a rationalised salary structure . |
| 16 | The fans , having worked up a thirst hurling abuse , if not each other , from the stands , pause on their homeward journeys to take refreshment and , behold , ask for the first brand name that comes to mind . |
| 17 | As she left for the first night party , she just had time to tell us what she thought : |
| 18 | The Albanian authorities on Feb. 22 , 1990 , published for the first time information on the size of the country 's prison population . |
| 19 | Butcher , whose career looked over last season because of a knee injury , will be offered a one-year contract this week after starring for the First Division club in three pre-season friendlies . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |