Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | PAKISTANI authorities have for the first time begun arresting farmers in the North West Frontier Province who have been found planting opium for next year 's harvest . |
| 2 | The five CODESA working groups met for the first time on Jan. 20 in Johannesburg . |
| 3 | Pawson has pointed out that in building the canals , British engineers had for the first time " to grapple with large scale civil engineering problems " . |
| 4 | Commanded by Gen. Satish Nambiar of the Indian army , the force included contingents from 30 countries including for the first time Security Council permanent members France , Russia and the United Kingdom . |
| 5 | He will now begin the physically and mentally painful process of taking male hormones to establish for the first time his masculinity . |
| 6 | New Contemporary Show ‘ 92 , six newcomers exhibit for the first time ( until 23 Feb ) . |
| 7 | These results show for the first time to our knowledge , the interactions between calcium , phosphate , fatty acids , and bile acids along the intestine . |
| 8 | In his comprehensive Apples Of England , Dr Taylor states that ‘ In England this variety only reaches full maturity in years of hot summers , ’ and goes on to say that ‘ Indeed , November- December-picked Sturmers are the best , ’ and , with a basket-full of fine specimens picked for the first time ever in the latter month , I agree . |
| 9 | These photographs show for the first time the lives of people who , in the spirit of the age are changing from a silent minority into a rebellious one . |
| 10 | To determine whether proliferative patterns in flat rectal mucosal samples can predict the recurrence of adenomatous colorectal polyps , after polypectomy , rectal mucosal specimens removed from the lesions obtained at endoscopy from 55 patients diagnosed for the first time as having adenomatous colorectal polyps . |
| 11 | If in doubt , keep two provisional subjects going for the first half of the first term — and then drop the one that appeals to you the less . |
| 12 | Those schools selected for the first quality audit in mathematics or science have recently been asked to supply 12 pieces of work from across the entire year group reflecting the spread of the ability range . |
| 13 | The Chairman , , welcomed and presented certificates to three newly qualified teachers attending for the first time . |
| 14 | Leonard , who plays more golf in the summer than bowls , partners Irish international senior skip and Lisnagarvey club mate Noel Graham in their bid to win the Irish pairs title for the first time since the brilliant Fisher and Ringland combination won it for the Lisburn club in 1970 . |
| 15 | On 16 November 1987 solicitors acting for the first defendant wrote saying that he hoped to sell the property , and the proceedings were adjourned generally . |
| 16 | Aims were defined , certain statutory regulations laid down and five officers elected for the first three-year term . |
| 17 | The introduction of bargaining and the capacity to negotiate collective agreements or ‘ convenios ’ , although still closely controlled , gave the company councils a genuine industrial relations function for the first time and encouraged the workers ' commissions ' strategy of working through the official system and putting forward candidates to company council elections . |
| 18 | It is fair conjecture that the Chelsea porcelain painters working from live plants sought subjects from the nearby Physic Garden , where they might find many impressive exotics flowering for the first time in this country . |
| 19 | Microscopy has come a long way since the 1670s when Antonie van Leewenhoek used his relatively crude instruments to see for the first time the bacteria that inhabit worlds normally hidden from the naked eye . |
| 20 | Sonia Delaunay later expressed this theory in its simplest form : ‘ Pure colours used as planes are juxtaposed in simultaneous contrasts to create for the first time a sense of form , achieved not by clair-obscur , but through the relationship in depth of the colours themselves . ’ |
| 21 | As the two hellraisers met for the first time for the benefit of the world 's press , they exchanged jokes . |
| 22 | Fittingly the local-born lad took the first spot kick which completed the first leg of what could see the city 's two clubs meet for the first time in the last four . |
| 23 | South African authorities have for the first time permitted Mr Nelson Mandela to talk by telephone with exiled leaders of the African National Congress from the prison where he is held near Cape Town . |
| 24 | TORBREX Wanderers have done much to keep the Scottish Indoor League championship race open by beating fellow Dundonians Menzieshill for the first time in the league last month . |
| 25 | In fact , once you take into account all the set-up costs of the two endowments needed for the first method , having a joint policy becomes quite competitive , as well as offering extra peace of mind . |
| 26 | New workplaces opened for the first time on or after 1 January 1993 or those that are modified or extended or converted should comply with the Regulations immediately . |
| 27 | Participants from the former Soviet republics attended for the first time on Nov. 23-24 a meeting in Paris of the 17-member Co-ordinating Committee on Multilateral Export Controls ( COCOM — once primarily a forum for controlling the acquisition of sensitive Western technology by the Soviet Union and its allies ) . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Doubt of this variety stems from a deficiency at the second level of understanding , the level at which Christian presuppositions enter for the first time . |