Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A special austerity programme had reduced the range of consumer goods and foodstuffs , with eggs and bread being rationed for the first time . |
| 2 | Every activity in the left-hand path is treated as if it were being undertaken for the first time . |
| 3 | Although some horses will travel in horse trailers as if it is second nature to them , even without having any previous related experience ; and some horses will stand perfectly and quietly for the farrier when they are being shod for the first time ; many will not ! |
| 4 | It is not that the question of the ordination of women is being considered for the first time in our day ! |
| 5 | The Education Act of 1944 , for example , led to the majority of rural school children being educated for the first time outside their own village after the age of eleven . |
| 6 | Each controversial assertion is treated as if it were being made for the first time . |
| 7 | He was Jacob Hart , 12 , who was responsible for Hook , Stephen Spielberg 's £65 million modern Peter Pan story , being written in the first place . |
| 8 | It tells the story of an engineer who loses his job because of the effects of being gassed during the First World War . |
| 9 | he holds by virtue of being connected with the first company ; |
| 10 | In what is being seen as the first licensing by Apple Computer Inc of its Macintosh technology , the company has signed an OEM agreement that enables Honeywell Inc to use the Mac interface in avionics systems : Honeywell will use the technology to drive management information systems for commercial airline cockpits , building an Electronic Library System incorporating an adapted avionics version of Apple 's Macintosh Quadra 800 high-end box . |
| 11 | The Government 's insistence that the Channel tunnel rail link be privately-financed is being seen as the first stage in a longer term plan to privatise the entire British Rail network . |
| 12 | Young ladies being presented for the first time were known as debutantes . |
| 13 | Common sense requires one to recognize that the most significant things were what was being said for the first time , at least in that form , in modern Catholic history and with such authority . |
| 14 | These pilot events have been developed , in conjunction with the Department of Industrial and Social Studies , to form the core of a new elective module ‘ Team Development in Practice ’ being offered for the first time in semester one 1993/94 . |
| 15 | For example , the 1987/88 Programme of Work included a major review of the modules in Personal and Social Development ( PSD ) ; the fruits of this review appeared in the catalogue last April and the new and revised modules are being used for the first time this session . |
| 16 | Roman bronze coins of the early second century BC were still being used in the first century AD , and very little bronze coinage was made between about 150 and 20BC . |
| 17 | It is the combination of being told for the first time that you have coronary disease with the need for an emergency procedure , for example , an angiogram . |
| 18 | And successful treatment is prolonging the lives of affected people — but not dealing with the causes or preventing them being affected in the first place . |
| 19 | In February 1990 , by which time he had moved to become manager of West Ham , Macari became embroiled in financial scandals dating back to his years at Swindon and eventually ended in the newly promoted club being relegated from the First Division to the Third , a draconian punishment which was partially decreased on appeal . |
| 20 | Swindon were facing financial ruin after being relegated from the first division last season … |
| 21 | Most catalogues begin , usually with some proud and flamboyant phraseology , by describing the new varieties being introduced for the first time , and invariably , because they are the kinds that get most of the breeders ' attentions , these will be H.T.s and Floribundas . |
| 22 | The requirements for safe glazing is being provided for the first time , but do not apply to glazing which is being replaced . |
| 23 | If you supply the identifier of a Paper SPR that is being updated for the first time , a warning message will be displayed . |
| 24 | It was as if our vision was a piece of elastic which was being stretched for the first time after a long period in a drawer . |
| 25 | As far as the kadiliks are concerned , the original mevleviyet kadiliks appear to have been the kadiliks of the three Ottoman capitals , Istanbul , Edirne and Bursa , this number being increased in the first Instance through the acquisition of other important cities by conquest or other means . |
| 26 | Yet after being annihilated in the first Test , England showed they could still fight . |
| 27 | he 's going , so busy looking on what 's going on behind the question that 's being asked , that you never answer the question that you 're being asked in the first place . |
| 28 | Wembley is a virtual sell-out with the Mohawks game being followed by the first division championship final . |
| 29 | The party 's Anglican commitment was as firm as ever before 1914 , even though it was being led for the first time by a man who was not an Anglican himself . |
| 30 | The links they forged here , both during and after the Second World War , are being illustrated for the first time in a remarkable new exhibition , which opens at the Scottish United Services Museum , Edinburgh Castle on 21 April . |