Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] for the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an historic statute since for the first time it provided a statutory power for the banning of marches and processions of protest and demonstration . |
| 2 | German research minister Matthias Wissmann last week announced a major restructuring of medical research funding that for the first time establishes independent external refereeing for projects in universities and their associated clinics . |
| 3 | New light on an Old Master is illuminated indeed , and it 's what you will find at Canada House Gallery where for the first time , an almost forgotten body of work by Henri Matisse , relating to his fascination with the Canadian Inuit , has been mounted together with much original source material in the way of Inuit masks , photographs and books which the artist studied . |
| 4 | The International Telecommunications Satellite Organisation , Intelsat , owned by some 120 nations worldwide , is under such pressure to increase capacity that for the first time , it is to lease capacity on three satellites that it does not own . |
| 5 | Digital Equipment Corp has announced that it will offer a new hub backplane , code-named One Hub , in early 1993 , plugging the gap at the high end of the DEChub 90 range and for the first time offering Ethernet , Token Ring , and the Fibre Distributed Data Interface , FDDI , at first , and Asynchronous Transfer Mode high-speed networking technology , when it becomes available , in one product . |
| 6 | It is a language that needs a large memory capacity and for the first time there were machines available to use it . |
| 7 | I think it 's possibly the thirteenth consecutive year I 've been on the committee and for the first time I 've managed to be elected . |
| 8 | I have over the years many times come to the rostrum but for the first time it gives me no pleasure at all in saying what has to be said . |
| 9 | Will my hon. Friend commend as compulsory reading part of our proceedings in Committee when for the first time hon. Members listened for two or two and a half hours to — |
| 10 | There was the added complication that for the first time there would be a period of five minutes or so when I would have to shut inside my satchel not only my outdoor shoes but my gym shoes as well . |
| 11 | The track took a right hand curve and for the first time he saw the bridge standing high above the track . |
| 12 | Nora Fanshawe raised her head and for the first time he saw her smile , an ugly harsh smile of self-mockery . |
| 13 | She accepted a glass of water and for the first time looked round in order to take in the room and the people before her . |
| 14 | The situation did n't improve much during the rest of the week and for the first time since Rachel had been working at OBEX she found herself not looking forward to going to work in the mornings . |
| 15 | Le Monde reported on April 26 that the government had decided to reverse previous government policy and for the first time to pay 6,200,000 marks to an Israeli foundation for holocaust survivors . |
| 16 | Immediately , therefore , I was involved in the gay movement and for the first time in my life in a couple relationship . |
| 17 | He managed to stay off alcohol because for the first time for a very long time he was truly afraid . |
| 18 | I pursued the howling dog , hands clawed and teeth bared , stopping only when my rage was replaced by the realisation that for the first time in my life I 'd put another human being before myself . |
| 19 | To rid herself of the nightmare voice that for the first time had spoken clearly and terribly in the full rational light of day . |
| 20 | Sinead 's father John saw the progressive school in Waterford as a last chance for his wayward daughter and for the first time in her life she came across a school where she had nothing to rebel against . |
| 21 | The NILP was represented by a strong contingent which carried the party banner and for the first time Ivan Cooper took a prominent part in the proceedings . |
| 22 | Soon the mousy man became exhausted by struggling with the suitcase and for the first time the Feldwebel carried it for him . |
| 23 | Of those , the Trooper 's got the edge and for the first time leads its own sub-section of 4 × 4 off-roaders . |
| 24 | Sung , following her , held out his hand and for the first time she let him help her , gripping his hand with a force that took his breath , her fingers tightening convulsively with every little jolt she received . |
| 25 | Mrs Chamorro declined to give interviews while in Washington but in an article published this week , she wrote : ‘ Ten years of living dangerously has brought civil war , an exodus of a fifth of our countrymen , an annual inflation of 30,000 per cent , 40 per cent unemployment and for the first time in our history , mass hunger . |
| 26 | Scientists then often speak of ‘ the scales falling from the eyes ’ or of the ‘ lightning flash ’ that ‘ inundates ’ a previously obscure puzzle , enabling its components to be seen in a new way that for the first time permits its solution . |
| 27 | Now , while as if bestowing some order of merit she fastened the beads round my neck , her face wore a motherly expression and for the first time I was with the Aunt Louise of my childhood . |
| 28 | The Ministry of Social Security Act 1966 created the Supplementary Benefits Commission ( SBC ) to administer the supplementary benefit scheme and for the first time those whose resources did not meet their requirements had a legal entitlement to the payment of benefit . |
| 29 | It was , however , his permanent design of the deceptively simple 1920 Whitehall Cenotaph ( originally erected in wood and plaster as a saluting point for the Victory March Past of Allied troops in July 1919 ) that put him in the eye of the general public and for the first time turned Lutyens into a household name . |
| 30 | Many of the hotels in this brochure do continue to provide waiter serve , although some of these will have buffet for breakfast and for the first course of main meals . |