Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] for [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | King Fahd of Saudi Arabia visited Baghdad at the end of March for the first visit by a Saudi monarch since Iraq 's Baathist revolution of 1968 . |
| 2 | And yesterday it emerged that Britain 's inflation rate of 4.1pc had fallen below that of Germany for the first time in 25 years . |
| 3 | Butter is in the supermarkets of Timisoara for the first time since March last year . |
| 4 | LAST autumn , the Bank was back on television in most of Scotland for the first time in more than two years with a campaign of three commercials . |
| 5 | Here he 'd smelt the air of England for the first time , the crisp October air ; here he 'd fed first , drunk first ; first had cause for laughter , and later , for tears . |
| 6 | CHINA : Amnesty International was publicly recognised by a senior government official in the People 's Republic of China for the first time last year , in connection with the commutation of the death sentence of Lobsang Tenzin , a Tibetan student accused of the murder of a Chinese policeman . |
| 7 | The government confirmed on May 13 that it had landed a contingent of troops on the southern tip of Bougainville for the first time since 1990 , when it had withdrawn its forces from the island in the face of a protracted secessionist guerrilla war conducted by the Bougainville Revolutionary Army ( BRA ) . |
| 8 | Elland Road stages the event between August 1–2 as the tournament moves out of London for the first time . |
| 9 | The Chanak crisis , which erupted in late September , drove Baldwin to the newsstands of Aix for the first time . |
| 10 | Since Hick 's elevation to the Test team we 've seen England share the most successful series against West Indies in the last nine , win a series against New Zealand for the first time in four attempts , win a Test match against Pakistan for the first time in 10 years , and , for good measure , reach the World Cup final . |
| 11 | Blackburn boss Dalglish faced the nostalgia head-on as he prepared to lead out the opposition against Liverpool for the first time since his astonishing walk-out 20 months ago . |
| 12 | AUGUST 1991 , and Arsenal , my team the reigning champions , take the field against QPR for the first game of the new season . |
| 13 | We have no regional offices , and do not appear in any local telephone books ; publicity material like the leaflets have HQ address on them and so many people making contact with CPRW for the first time , no matter where they live , come first to us . |
| 14 | The first day of term in the Foley household meant that Jack would put on a college scarf and head into UCD for the first time . |
| 15 | Ernst Richter was the latest recruit from the academy , having arrived the previous day , and he had been assigned to work with Mauer for the first month so that his temperament and personality could be assessed to ensure that later on he would be paired with the right partner . |
| 16 | He 's missing from the England team tomorrow of course but Gloucester will have a man playing for the Calcutta Cup … as skipper Ian Smith runs out with Scotland for the first time |
| 17 | Benne Johannsen , manager of the Danish champions , travelled to Georgia with Linfield for the first leg and he 's not too keen on going back . |
| 18 | Now that they have achieved that ambition ahead of schedule , Stokes has the chance to take a team into Europe for the first time next season . |
| 19 | FERGIE 'S ex-nanny Alison Wardley has told of her life with Fergie for the first time . |
| 20 | They are joined in Brighton for the first time by LONDON NEW MUSIC . |
| 21 | Fears of recession which heightened the perception of silver as an industrial metal and heavy over-supply over an extended period , caused prices to plummet to below $4.00 a troy ounce in mid-December for the first time in fifteen years . |
| 22 | Several Cabinet ministers will address the two-day gathering which is being held at the Royal International Pavilion in Llangollen for the first time . |
| 23 | The old flag was raised over the Supreme Soviet building in Riga for the first time on Feb. 27 . |
| 24 | Dale Gordon set foot in Scotland for the first time in his life yesterday to complete a £1.2 million move from Norwich to Rangers — took one look at the imposing new-look Ibrox which will become his home and admitted : ‘ I 'm gobsmacked ! ’ |
| 25 | Soon red kites , breeding again in Scotland for the first time in 100 years , may be added to their list . |
| 26 | I was looking forward to being a guest in Ireland for the first time , instead of merely a paying guest . |
| 27 | Charlie Haughey : the man who groomed a woman to lead one of the major political parties in Ireland for the first time . |
| 28 | ( It is also relevant to Athenian fears that , as Livy tells us under the year 431 , Carthage now encroached in Sicily for the first time , iv.29.8 with R. M. Ogilvie ( 1965 ) Commentary on Livy i-v , Oxford . ) |
| 29 | Thus a limited constitution with a representative body , the Duma appeared in Russia for the first time . |
| 30 | Today , South Africa play rugby in England for the first time in nearly 23 years when a line-up containing five current internationals faces the Midlands at Leicester 's Welford Road . |