Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] for the first " in BNC.
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1 | Estimates of these costs put the average direct costs of a baby for the first year at at least £1 500 , running to £30 000 by the time the child reaches 16 . |
2 | Well a very close fought encounter at the stadium ; we had to wait for quarter of an hour for the first actual goal chance when Dave Bristow hit the ball from twenty five yards , which just cleared the bar . |
3 | She took her Great Dane puppy for a walk for the first time , when I say she was a puppy , she was huge . |
4 | Hayward really came into his own on two Howlin' Wolf songs , and as Freddie King 's Love Her With a Feeling spiralled up into an overwhelming sonic orgasm , Clapton 's playing drew applause during a song for the first time . |
5 | The Companies Act 1989 has changed the definition of a subsidiary and as a result A. Layout ( Leisurewear ) Ltd has been treated as a subsidiary for the first time . |
6 | Ranald , do you find a rock the size of these two , and we 'll use them as a base for the first skep . |
7 | After the Romans were driven out by the Alemanni in the fifth century , the history of the area is misty until the ninth , when Zurich is mentioned as a town for the first time with the building of a palace there by Charlemagne . |
8 | ( The third effect should strictly speaking be regarded as a substitute for the first since it assumes a zero , or at least a very low , interest elasticity of the demand for money whereas the Keynes effect assumes that it is reasonably powerful . ) |
9 | To enter information about a DC for the first time |
10 | to enter information about a DC for the first time |
11 | This option enables you to update a Product either to enter information about a Product for the first time or to update existing information about a Product . |
12 | This option enables you to update a Client either to enter information about a Client for the first time or to update existing information about a Client . |
13 | ‘ Everybody is enthusiastic about a house for the first three years . |
14 | An earlier request for compensatory financing , together with a request for the first tranche of a standby arrangement , had been approved by the IMF in January 1991 [ see p. 38006 ] . |
15 | In addition , they may be anxious about dealing with a solicitor for the first time . |
16 | One essential requirement , before attempting to fly a model equipped with a gyro for the first time , is to ensure that the gyro is working in the correct sense . |
17 | The sailors face split into a grin for the first tame when Yanto handed him four pound notes . |
18 | To turn yourself into a brood-mare for the first man you met ! |
19 | Before the Dewhurst Stakes , you felt sorry for his opponents and if he had been a man coming into a room for the first time , the rest of us would have looked round anxiously to see our wives ' reaction . |
20 | Jenny Pitman 's Do Be Brief stepped onto a racecourse for the first time in the first division of the Christmas Pudding Novice Hurdle and made quite an impression in beating Sailor 's Luck , but not half as big as his stable-companion Egypt Mill , who looked something special in landing the second division by 10 lengths . |
21 | Module 4 demands more specialised or focused activities and the learner is called upon to act as an intermediary for the first time . |
22 | A second problem is that corporate profits are already depressed , having declined for three years in a row for the first time since the second world war . |
23 | Darley 's suspension could prove a major blow in his quest to ride 100 winners in a season for the first time his 16 year career . |
24 | To their credit the Springboks took a leaf out of the Wallaby book by holding their Friday training session before the test in a township for the first time ever . |
25 | MIKE Watkinson 's pick ‘ n mix deliveries brought him ten wickets in a match for the first time yesterday as Lancashire thrashed Warwickshire by an innings and 25 runs at Edgbaston . |
26 | If an agent decides to invest in an act for the first year of its career , this band may not sign a record deal . |
27 | Seeing him lying in an incubator for the first time was a uniquely distressing experience . |
28 | When you 're 15 and working in an office for the first time it is a new world and a big challenge — especially when all your colleagues are speaking a foreign language . |
29 | In just under two hours time Oxford Prison will close down , leaving the city without a gaol for the first time in a thousand years . |
30 | All At Sea reverts to a mile for the first time this season , having finished runner-up on her last three starts , the best of which was her length defeat by Rodrigo de Triano in the Juddmonte International over a mile and a quarter . |