Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] for the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They allowed cameras into their Hereford base for the first time , to drive home the message that the public must be on their guard in the run-up to Christmas . |
| 2 | The X Business Group rates DEC third in X-terminal shipments for the first quarter of 1992 , after Network Computing Devices Inc and HP . |
| 3 | Marcel , the first person narrator of the novel , meets the writer Bergotte for the first time . |
| 4 | ‘ Heavens no , ’ agreed Julia , thinking about the Easter plans for the first time that evening . |
| 5 | Boots The chemist are to open pharmacy concessions for the first time in seven JS branches in late July . |
| 6 | And you had the impression he knew that would be the case as he raced down Jefferson Avenue for the first time . |
| 7 | Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt 's excellent book , The Bomber Command War Diaries tell us that on the night of 23/24 September Bomber Command for the first time concentrated its main bomber strength on one city — Berlin . |
| 8 | ‘ From a planning point of view it would not have been a major worry , although only the force staging the original tie could police the second replay because all the liaison work for the first match would have been done . |
| 9 | As I came into my room , I saw Edward Hyde for the first time . |
| 10 | Minister of Science William Waldegrave , may have released the first major UK government White Paper on science and technology for over 10 years yesterday , but information technology professionals need n't hold their breath : while Waldegrave seems to think we should count ourselves lucky because we 've got our own research council for the first time , it would be more truthful to say we 've been stuffed into the miscellaneous section of the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council , along with the electronic , electrical and communications industries ; our body , together with the Particle Physics and Sciences Research Council , will replace the Science and Engineering Research Council ; as a result , we will benefit ‘ from the same building of bridges between research bodies and industry ’ as the rest of the reorganised bodies and should experience interaction at an earlier stage — on the Japanese and German model . |
| 11 | By the time they had reached the end of Jefferson Street for the first time , the US Grand Prix was all over . |
| 12 | In 1979 I went to the English Schools Championships for the first time , to run in the 200 metres for London . |
| 13 | Sir : Eurotunnel 's latest revenue forecasts for the first year of the tunnel 's operation are virtually unchanged from the forecasts made a year ago , and the long-term forecasts are up . |
| 14 | HGCA figures for the first half of the 1992–93 season show Ipswich exporting ten per cent of all British wheat . |
| 15 | British Steel , which yesterday broke through the 100p barrier for the first time in almost two years , lost 3p today to 100p as investors became jittery that its recovery potential might not be as great as originally anticipated . |
| 16 | Neither Julia nor I had realised that some delegates would be registering on the Saturday morning for the first time — we had n't covered this . |
| 17 | The King meets with opposition leaders for the first time . |
| 18 | TWO players were sent off and four others booked as Antwerp , Belgium 's oldest club , reached the semi-finals of a European club competition for the first time . |
| 19 | Despite the evidence of the Queensland and New South Wales games , the selectors stayed loyal to the established team from the Five Nations Championship for the First Test . |
| 20 | After a few attempts I found I was turning like Robby Naish for the first part of the turn , then falling in on the inside of the turn . |
| 21 | And then , of course , only on the day after you took the car to the car wash for the first time in months . |
| 22 | Foreign investors were allowed direct access into domestic stock markets for the first time from June 5 . |
| 23 | In Thailand in 1991 the falling incidence of chancroid approached that of herpes genitalis for the first time , reaching 0.22/1000 compared with an incidence of herpes genitalis of 0.18/1000 . |
| 24 | The impasse was eventually broken after the Prime Minister invoked an arcane constitutional device to create more PCP Senators [ see p. 37705 ] , and used a closure motion for the first time within Canada 's upper chamber . |
| 25 | ‘ Live ’ delivered a hit single in ‘ No Woman No Cry ’ and put Marley into the album charts for the first time . |
| 26 | MARR COLLEGE have won the Bank of Scotland Schools Cup for the first time , beating St Aloysius ' College by 8–6 at Ayr . |
| 27 | It was under Dick Graham that Palace won promotion to Division Two to leave the lower reaches of the Football League for the first time in 39 years . |
| 28 | Scott , revealing details of the 500-page bid document for the first time , insisted the big selling point was the proximity of the sports venues to the competitors ' village , which would be in a canalside setting in the heart of the city . |
| 29 | Now available by mail order for the first time ( call for a brochure ) , we have 30 Make-Up Removers worth £7.25 each to give away . |
| 30 | A unit should be up and running in three to six months with sales of $1m forecast for the first year . |