Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ironical and fundamental point is that during these post-war years , when international demand for tropical commodities for the first time since 1921 really justified vast investments in the Colonies ; when the Colonies had a huge back-log of demand for essential equipment ; when at last the British government was equipped with power to give or lend considerable sums to top up what the Colonies could afford to invest from their own accumulating surplus ; and when . |
| 2 | The offence is in outline very similar to the pre-existing offence under the Public Order Act 1936 , section 5A , although it adds ‘ behaviour ’ to the list of proscribed activities for the first time . |
| 3 | Evidence that the Chinese economy was entering a period of growth emerged on April 7 with the publication of economic figures for the first quarter of 1991 . |
| 4 | Tickets for the whole event are on sale , price £10.00 , from the box-office of the Empire Leicester Square , and we have pairs of free tickets for the first five readers to arrive at the cinema on Sunday morning bearing a copy of The Independent . |
| 5 | Some of these activities related to institutional developments ( for example , on diversification ) , others to new ways of approaching familiar ground ( for example , on school experience ) , others to new approaches to the packaging of knowledge and its applications ( for example , a conference on communication studies held in 1978 ) , others to the representation of existing activities for the first time in higher education ( for example , in the creative and performing arts ) , and yet others on the mechanics of the CNAA 's own work in validating courses and seeking to assure standards ( for example , a conference on the role of external examiners held in October 1978 ) . |
| 6 | In 1991 their numbers overtook the number of divorced mothers for the first time . |
| 7 | Its aim is to promote a reunion of Czech Jews for the first time since the war . |
| 8 | Foreign imports into Britain continued to grow rapidly in the 1970s and 1980s while UK exports of manufactures levelled off from the late 1970s , making the UK a net importer of manufactured goods for the first time in the long history we have described ( Figure 2.1 ) . |
| 9 | A police force has reported a DROP in the number of reported crimes for the first time in years . |
| 10 | They were driving into the city now , and she looked around her , seeing it with different eyes for the first time , seeing it as a garrulous old lady with so much to tell to anyone willing to listen . |
| 11 | The Hayes Sale starts at 8.30am on December 28 with extra bargains for the first hour of the day , lasts until end of January . |
| 12 | The Zimbabwe Scientific Programme ( ZIMSCI ) project is designed to support teachers not trained in science and to provide a complete science package with low-cost kits for the first years of secondary school . |
| 13 | After both B and C Company put in similar performances the Cup was firmly in British hands for the first time . |
| 14 | It is at this stage in the history of the unit that its existence starts to register gradually in official records for the first time . |
| 15 | City rents are falling in absolute terms for the first time in 25 years . |
| 16 | Kahnweiler linked the names of Picasso and Braque together seriously in Der Weg zum Kubismus , written in 1915 though not published until 1920 , but general recognition of their collaboration dates from the Kahnweiler and Uhde sales of the early 1920s when their pre-war Cubism could be seen together in large quantities for the first time . |
| 17 | BASF blamed the high costs of restructuring for a 16 per cent fall in pre-tax profits for the first nine months of 1991 , from DM 2336m ( £1 = DM2.85 ) to DM 1962m . |
| 18 | The decline in pre-tax profits for the first six months of 1990 ranged from 55.1 per cent for Nomura Securities , the largest trader , to 74.2 per cent for Nikko and Yamaichi Securities . |
| 19 | I thought things had changed in Sweden when I was able to use the same team in successive games for the first time in six years . |
| 20 | Network Computing Devices Inc pretty much has the dedicated X-terminal business sewn up , and the Mountain View , California company is now moving in on the personal computer X Window System emulation business with launch of PC-Xware , a single software package that it claims provides full X terminal functionality on personal computers for the first time . |
| 21 | Network Computing Devices Inc has the dedicated X-terminal business pretty much sewn up , and the Mountain View , California company is now moving in on the personal computer X Window System emulation business dominated by the likes of Canadian outfit Hummingbird Communications Ltd and UK firm XVision Ltd , with launch of PC-Xware , a single software package that it claims provides full X terminal functionality on personal computers for the first time . |
| 22 | Employees are paid at normal rates for the first 40 hours and are guaranteed a minimum of 35 hours . |
| 23 | Inspections were carried out by outside groups for the first time , and changes , such as putting windows into dark cells , took place . |