Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [verb] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The heavy makeup melting even in the air-conditioning , the legless beggar who sleeps under the office porch and cleans their shoes in gratitude , the slums you can not observe because no roads go through the swamps and whose inhabitants do not exist for the State because the census officials can not reach them , the bomb-carriers serving as flower-pots , the boys selling themselves to the rich English ex-public schoolboys , the girls selling themselves to the fat German tourists , the police raping the boys and the girls they are protecting in the police-stations , the Committee officers boasting to Kate about the elegant jerk-offs in the massage parlours , their ever-decorative ever-bored wives boasting to Kate about their jewellery , the Thai girls saving up for eye and breast jobs , the luxury hotels where the high-class white whores hang out , the students shot by the military during a demonstration against the army regime , the girl students daring for the first time to stay out at night on the streets to picket , the crushing of strikes with bullets and beatings , the barring of political books in the Committee library , the anti-Communist adverts punctuating the Western films on TV . |
| 2 | He points to the benefit of having the two major Manchester rail stations linked for the first time by the Manchester Metro , and explains how LRT systems , connecting outlying communities to the mainline service , can open up new passenger markets . |
| 3 | France 's total wine exports declined for the first time in a decade last year . |
| 4 | The net costs of Eagle Lodges appear for the first time in the income and expenditure account and are largely attributable to setting up costs as there was little income from occupancy during 1990 . |
| 5 | The Burgage is close to Cheltenham race course and race goers heading for the first day of the Cheltenham Gold Cup meeting were diverted away from the murder house . |
| 6 | Not only did many teachers in many schools meet in library committees to discuss for the first time their common interests and sometimes contrasting perspectives with other members of subject departments across the school ; they also , for the first time , were forced to consider seriously the pedagogy implied by their present use or misuse of the resources already on offer or their failure to use them . |
| 7 | Electricity companies sparkled for the first part of the year . |
| 8 | In October , the Council hosted METROPIA XVI , a Euro-wide event for senior school pupils held for the first time in the UK |