Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb pp] for [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | This body met for the first time in May 1989 and elected from its members the bicameral 542-member Supreme Soviet — the working constitutional body responsible for all legislative and administrative matters — consisting of the Soviet of the Union and the Soviet of Nationalities . |
| 2 | The High Authority met for the first time in the autumn of 1952 , and immediately set about trying to turn the principles of the Treaty of Paris into practical results . |
| 3 | On the one hand this expansion offered for the first time a substantial number of teaching posts which together formed a fully-integrated career structure , and on the other it considerably lessened the security of both the " historical " and " critical " paradigms for which Bateson had been at such pains to seek some form of mutual accommodation . |
| 4 | They showed that subjects given verbal pre-training with one set of stimuli learn the appropriate motor response more rapidly to these stimuli than to a further set introduced for the first time in the test phase . |
| 5 | Their obligation to be honest with each other outweighed for the first time whatever they owed to anyone else . |
| 6 | In February 1990 the Chinese government admitted for the first time that HIV infection had spread to China in significant numbers , particularly to the south-western province of Yunnan , which because of its proximity to the " golden triangle " of drug production in Thailand and Burma had a relatively high number of intravenous drug users . |
| 7 | Unix System Labs expects to have beta versions of Tuxedo ready for IBM 's ES/9000 AIX by the end of the year , with general availability scheduled for the first quarter ( UX No 403 ) . |
| 8 | The two-tier structure introduced for the first time in some urban areas was another source of increased costs ( Alexander 1982a:Ch.3 ) . |
| 9 | The hardline leadership admitted for the first time it regretted the exodus , admitted there were problems and conceded it might be partly to blame . |
| 10 | The new parliament convened for the first time on June 9 . |
| 11 | The new body met for the first time , in the building of the suspended National Assembly , on April 25 . |
| 12 | When the new Assembly met for the first time on Sept. 24 , seven opposition members refused to take their seats , claiming that the election had been rigged . |
| 13 | The new Cabinet met for the first time on June 12 and Shamir attempted to head off Arab-led calls for a special UN Security Council team to visit the West Bank and Gaza [ see p. 37443 ] by proposing that a UN envoy , Jean-Claude Aimé , should visit the area in their place . |
| 14 | The seven-member committee of the Arab League met for the first time in Cairo , also on April 7 . |
| 15 | It is true , however , that taken as a whole , the 1947 Act created for the first time a comprehensive framework for planning and thereby laid the groundwork for a permanent and highly significant change in the public attitude to private property and its use and development . |
| 16 | In 1851 , which , with symbolic appropriateness , was the year in which a hungry urban population exceeded for the first time the population of the countryside , drainage-minded landlords up from the shires were able to carry away a wealth of interesting ideas from the Great Exhibition . |
| 17 | GRAHAM TAYLOR last night revealed for the first time what Paul Gascoigne 's return means to him . |
| 18 | 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 . |