Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead most Boards adopted a standard proxy measure such as the number of rooms or the floor area of the domestic premises concerned , and based their standing charges or the charge for the first ‘ block ’ on this . |
| 2 | The pros and cons of which financial saviour should be favoured — a bid led by the American company Sikorsky , or a European consortium including British Aerospace — need not concern us here , because to dwell unduly upon them would be like treating the assassination of an archduke in Sarajevo as the cause rather than the trigger for the First World War . |
| 3 | ( vi ) If the date for the first review is fixed 17 years after sentence , the prisoner is told that this does not necessarily mean that the period for retribution and deterrence has been set at 20 years . |
| 4 | ‘ If the indicators for the first quarter remain flat or suggest a further fall in output , then the time will have come for a further cut in interest rates , by another 1 per cent or more . ’ |
| 5 | One of these was a gradual trend towards laying off workers in their early sixties in the belief that age made them less efficient , and the introduction for the first time of fixed retirement ages . |
| 6 | On a recent flight over the area a crane was to be seen alongside the existing hangars , and the timber-framing for the first of the new houses was already taking shape . |
| 7 | They had been underestimated , as the first Test proved , but the damage had been done and the attendances for the first two Tests were depressing . |
| 8 | In 1985 a match was played between the Society and the Club for the first time . |
| 9 | In the early stages he was content to keep her towards the rear of the field as Teleprompter — also attempting a mile and a half for the first time — took his accustomed role of front-runner . |
| 10 | three days ' leave , and a chance for the first time in many months to reflect on life . |
| 11 | In Barcelona and other localities the PSOE would need the IU as a coalition partner , while the PP for the first time won an overall majority in the city of Madrid . |
| 12 | These sharp increases will contrast with below-inflation rent rises of 95 pence a week in about 156 local authority areas , as the Government for the first time moves away from a single national rents policy for the 4.5 million council tenants in England . |