Example sentences of "[verb] for the first [noun] [noun] " 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 | THE ISRAELI cabinet is being called this week to debate for the first time proposals made by Egypt for advancing the search for a settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | The Gaullist Rally for the Republic ( RPR ) held its national congress on Feb. 11 in Le Bourget , just outside Paris , assembling for the first time delegates who had been internally elected under party reforms . |
| 6 | The 1988 survey included for the first time results from saliva tests from half the children surveyed ; this double check may have encouraged them to be more honest about their smoking habits . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Merseyside duo Jamie Cassidy ( Liverpool ) and David Thompson ( Wirral ) have been picked for the first England boys under 15s national trial at the Lilleshall Sports Centre next weekend . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Material collected in south-east Ecuador has revealed for the first time Triassic marine sediments with bivalves , as well as Jurassic microfloras and Cretaceous macrofaunas . |
| 13 | Strangely , it was later used for the first city telegraph ! |
| 14 | In general , we find paths from J to 1 and I to 1 and then look for the first node k at which the paths meet ( k = 9 in the example ) . |
| 15 | A line creeping forward , and a rabble of men leaving the hatch and hurrying for the first bench place they could find . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In this study we aimed to record for the first time patterns of UOS motility associated with occurrence of GOR in children referred for evaluation of suspected disorders of oesophageal motility including pathological gastro-oesophageal reflux . |
| 18 | Speaking for the first time Vicky is now disillusioned with the man she once thought was a prophet and is writing a book about it . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She could recall the excitement of spending for the first time money she had actually earned . |
| 22 | ( The Abbey 's building and contents insurance must be taken out to qualify for the first time buyer 's discount ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The Disciplinary Committee lost no time in expanding its reports of hearings , issuing for the first time details of the chairman 's comments in the case of Michael Jordan , senior partner of Cork Gully , and Richard Stone , head of corporate finance at Coopers & Lybrand , who were found guilty last year of accepting the appointment of administrator to Polly Peck in spite of a continuing professional interest between PPI and C&L . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Government officials are admitting for the first time families in mid-value houses of £66,000 — £88,000 are likely to face bills of £600 not £400 as hoped . |
| 27 | For centuries civilised man thought poetry was the pinnacle he must reach for — ’ He caught himself suddenly and smiled for the first time Blanche had known him to , the embarrassed smile of a passionate devotee who suddenly discovers that everyone around him , whom he thought entranced by his obsession , was in fact sniggering behind his back . |
| 28 | As she left for the first night party , she just had time to tell us what she thought : |
| 29 | He waited for the first time Phillis was out , and scored the record . |
| 30 | The choice of language affects selection , integration and choice of curriculum content throughout the primary cycle , and is of dominant importance in planning for the first school years . |