Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] for the first " in BNC.

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1 This tuck stitch is easy to work on the Singer Big Nine and you can see from this sample that by working with a lighter shade for the background for the first four pattern repeats followed by a darker one for the background , similar amounts of yarn have been used over the same number of rows .
2 Neither manager would give a clue as to his team , or discuss in depth a match which could see the Republic qualify for the finals for the first time .
3 Matters came to a head in a break during the sessions for the first LP .
4 But Version 2 of CICS/2 enables an OS/2 machine to act as the server for the first time — running fully-fledged CICS applications .
5 For this reason David Whitaker chose the harnessing of fire by Neanderthal man as the subject for the first adventure .
6 The Indian Ocean Newsletter of Sept. 12 suggested that Djohar had infuriated representatives of many of the country 's 24 political parties the previous week , by setting unilaterally Oct. 25 as the date for the first round of elections to the Federal Assembly and by imposing new conditions for parties ' participation .
7 During the years that the Uganda syllabus panels were meeting , the Lake Victoria Hotel , Entebbe was chosen as the venue for the first in a series of international workshops which heralded a new approach to curriculum development , a new dimension for pan-African co-operation and whose eventual product , the Entebbe Mathematics , proved to be possibly the most influential curriculum project yet to be launched in English — speaking Africa .
8 as if he suddenly wanted to return the girls ' favour on this Monaghan Day , he spoke to them openly about the war for the first time in their lives .
9 APRIL 24 : Members of the British Racing Drivers ' Club ( BRDC ) , the parent company of SCL , are told about the deal for the first time at their AGM .
10 Now well enough to speak about the accident for the first time , he says it 's amazing he survived .
11 We 've been ordered to protect the identity of the boy involved , though his mother has faced the press to talk about the episode for the first time .
12 We 've been ordered to protect the identity of the boy involved , though his mother has faced the press to talk about the episode for the first time .
13 The new release sees the System climb off the mainframe for the first time and there are the expected implementations for OS/2 , Microsoft Corp Windows and Digital Equipment Corp 's OpenVMS .
14 This is useful practise to prepare for the time when you allow the dog off the leash for the first time , and call it back to you .
15 ‘ We played them off the park for the first 25 minutes of the second half . ’
16 Details of the transactions for the first month are given below .
17 Details of the transactions for the first month are given below .
18 The summit was originally called by Charles Haughey , the Irish Prime Minister and President of the Council for the first six months of 1990 , to discuss the Communities ' response to the prospect of German unification and to the rapid changes in the rest of Eastern Europe .
19 Teenager Stephen McAteer scored a remarkable maximum of 100 points from all five judges to bring the All-Ireland Under-19 title out of the country for the first time .
20 Most spectacular was the televising of the Illuminations for the first time in 1951 , using toastrack 166 .
21 She felt her stroke was due to the fertility drugs she had taken before each pregnancy , rather than to the childbirth itself : for the fifth pregnancy she had received injections of the drugs for the first time .
22 We have already considered some of the evidence for the first prediction .
23 In the A major Quartet , among 20-odd entrances of the complete theme ( with the upbeat ) , twice Mozart wrote a stroke : at the start of the development for the first violin , four bars later for the imitative entrance of the cello , but not for the similar entrance in between , of the middle strings .
24 The enclosed questionnaire is part of the work for the first aim .
25 The Christian Democrats got only 38.7% of the vote , against 45.1% four years ago , and are being booted out of the government for the first time since the state was founded 45 years ago .
26 DID YOU notice the unusual , if not unique , feature of the scorecards for the first Test between England and New Zealand at Christchurch ?
27 Igglesden is still troubled by the groin strain which forced him to pull out of the squad for the first Test at Old Trafford while McCague was nursing a pulled hamstring .
28 The rent of the premises for the first week of £50 is paid .
29 The win took Cambridge to the quarter-finals of the competition for the first time in their history , following their recent proud FA Cup record of reaching the quarter-finals each year from 1988-1990 .
30 Simon Cruise returned the opening kick the entire length of the field for the first Touchdown .
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