Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the first [noun] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The accounts for the first year indicated quite clearly the recognition of the social divisions which existed at the time . |
| 2 | Then , on 20 June , the Germans for the first time employed a new type of diphosgene gas shell . |
| 3 | As this was fastened and he was made ready for departure , the prince for the first time seemed ill-at-ease — as if only then did he sense the poignancy of the moment and was after all loath to go . |
| 4 | However , on the strength of findings by a joint historical commission formed in 1987 to resolve " blank spots " in Polish-Soviet relations , in March 1989 the Polish authorities for the first time had contradicted the official Soviet line and had openly accused the Soviet Union of responsibility [ see p. 36535 ] . |
| 5 | The authorities for the first time gave permission for an opposition demonstration on March 7 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In November Gorbachev for the first time conceded that Moscow stood not only for a ‘ non-aligned , independent , sovereign Afghanistan ’ but a ‘ neutral Afghanistan ’ . |
| 8 | One of the attractions of the first book had been Minton 's delight in the shape of things — fish , bowls , tureens , vegetables , fruit , octopus , squid and elaborate sweets . |
| 9 | As soon as the echo of the first chime began to be heard above the laughter , the disco music was toned down , and the dancers on the crowded floor began to move back , leaving a clear space . |
| 10 | The parties to the first application agreed that the same preliminary issue should be determined in that case at the same time . |
| 11 | The published part of the first report amounted to only twelve pages ( Lloyd , 1987 ) ( with an appendix of one page giving details of the number of warrants issued by the Home Office and the Scottish |
| 12 | None the less the sheer ability and enthusiasm of the first generation established the value of the MRO and the important contribution he or she could bring to teachers and schools , both primary and secondary . |
| 13 | The negligence of the first defendant caused an accident . |
| 14 | As she returned the firm handclasp Lindsey 's smiling gaze for the first time took in the neat , wide-belted white dress , topped by a dark cardigan . |
| 15 | For many , the thought of leaving their parents for the first time left them subdued . |
| 16 | In 1889 the Prevention of Cruelty and Protection of Children Act for the first time outlawed proven cruelty to children and allowed children in certain circumstances to be removed from their families to a place of safety , usually a charitable institution such as Barnardo 's . |
| 17 | The panel of judges for the first award included Eleanor Bron , the actress and writer ; Penelope Lively , the novelist and a past winner of the Booker Prize ; and John Mortimer , QC , the novelist and playwright and chairman of the Royal Society of Literature . |
| 18 | Trusts for the first time made it easy to create a right in a person who would have been a third party at civil law . |
| 19 | According to the Americans , a handful of dogfights during the first week produced a lopsided result : nearly a score of the most modern Iraqi French- and Soviet-built fighters shot down in the air for the loss , possibly , of a single American fighter . |
| 20 | As soon as the parents of the first baby contacted health service bosses the parents of the second were told . |
| 21 | SHEFFIELD United 's remarkable climb up the First Division continued at the expense of Everton , who are moving just as rapidly in the opposite direction , writes Don Hardisty . |
| 22 | Casualties in the first category included Walsall-Brownhilis , the Woodhead route , Northampton-Market Harborough , Warrington-Skelton , Bottesford-Newark and Airdrie-Bathgate . |
| 23 | Her life at Remaisnil in the first years had no routine ; she continued to travel regularly around Europe overseeing shops as well as production in Helmond . |
| 24 | Now we will suppose that the author has lighted on important new material or has had a significant number of errors in the first edition pointed out to him . |
| 25 | It is possible that for all its lofty consequences , Nietzsche 's willingness to expose himself to Meistersinger in the first place arose out of nothing loftier than social contacts : the coincidence that a sister of Wagner 's living in Leipzig was friendly with Professor Ritschl and his wife , with whom Nietzsche was on excellent terms at the time . |
| 26 | ‘ To have his daughter run away from home in the first place had been a bitter blow . |
| 27 | The howls of laughter from the first tee told me my heroes were about to start their round . |
| 28 | Eleven patients with incomplete stone clearance at the first procedure underwent a second ( nine ) or third ( two ) cholecystolithotomy after redilatation of the percutaneous tract . |
| 29 | However , he submitted that even if the trial judge had misdirected the jury when he told them that the case against the first appellant depended solely upon what it was proved that he himself had done , that misdirection was to the advantage of the first appellant . |
| 30 | They were accordingly satisfied that the trial judge misdirected the jury when he stated that the case against the first appellant depended solely upon what they could find proved that he himself did . |