Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nine players in that side appeared for the first team later . |
| 2 | Pawson has pointed out that in building the canals , British engineers had for the first time " to grapple with large scale civil engineering problems " . |
| 3 | British sport began for the first time to embrace commercialism , although the process was cautious and gradual . |
| 4 | The old man spoke for the first time . |
| 5 | From 1865 , however , the foreign office had for the first time a department concerned entirely with commercial affairs . |
| 6 | Even the Ottoman empire began for the first time in its history to acquire some more or less clearly defined boundaries when , after the treaty of Carlowitz of 1699 , joint commissions were set up to demarcate its frontiers with Habsburg territory . |
| 7 | ‘ By the beginning of 1960 ’ , he wrote , ‘ it could no longer be denied that certain parts of London at night were dominated by a new spirit of insecurity ’ : ‘ juvenile delinquency had for the first time in Britain become elevated to the status of a national problem ’ . |
| 8 | Using the 100-inch telescope on Mount Wilson , in 1923 Hubble identified for the first time a cepheid variable star in a spiral ‘ nebula ’ ( M 31 in Andromeda ) , and proceeded in the next few years to make similar discoveries in several other such ‘ nebulae ’ . |
| 9 | MIA Farrow 's adopted daughter spoke for the first time yesterday of her ‘ wonderful ’ affair with Woody Allen . |
| 10 | Ironically , given the state of collapse of communism across Eastern Europe and the avowed reformist intentions of the BCP , when Lukanov 's proposals for the composition of his government were approved by the National Assembly on Feb. 8 Bulgaria acquired for the first time in its history an all-communist government . |
| 11 | It is suggestive that during his reign military uniform became for the first time permissible dress at the Habsburg court . |
| 12 | During an official visit to France in December 1989 Kaysone confirmed for the first time the death of the former King of Laos , Savang Vatthana . |
| 13 | America 's four-jet airliner flew for the first time on July 15 , 1954 and immediately revolutionised the world of mass air travel . |
| 14 | At Hunstead Park from May nineteen eighty nine until May nineteen ninety , both parents stayed for the first week and thereafter supported the plaintiff in taking her back for home visits , every weekend plus a week at Christmas and Easter . |
| 15 | DEFIANT Dave Beasant last night spoke for the first time since his week-end goalkeeping torment and insisted : ‘ I still want to play for Chelsea . ’ |
| 16 | Of these only the last item appeared for the first time in this volume . |