Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] for [art] first time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marcel , the first person narrator of the novel , meets the writer Bergotte for the first time . |
| 2 | Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt 's excellent book , The Bomber Command War Diaries tell us that on the night of 23/24 September Bomber Command for the first time concentrated its main bomber strength on one city — Berlin . |
| 3 | Minister of Science William Waldegrave , may have released the first major UK government White Paper on science and technology for over 10 years yesterday , but information technology professionals need n't hold their breath : while Waldegrave seems to think we should count ourselves lucky because we 've got our own research council for the first time , it would be more truthful to say we 've been stuffed into the miscellaneous section of the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council , along with the electronic , electrical and communications industries ; our body , together with the Particle Physics and Sciences Research Council , will replace the Science and Engineering Research Council ; as a result , we will benefit ‘ from the same building of bridges between research bodies and industry ’ as the rest of the reorganised bodies and should experience interaction at an earlier stage — on the Japanese and German model . |
| 4 | TWO players were sent off and four others booked as Antwerp , Belgium 's oldest club , reached the semi-finals of a European club competition for the first time . |
| 5 | And then , of course , only on the day after you took the car to the car wash for the first time in months . |
| 6 | The impasse was eventually broken after the Prime Minister invoked an arcane constitutional device to create more PCP Senators [ see p. 37705 ] , and used a closure motion for the first time within Canada 's upper chamber . |
| 7 | It was under Dick Graham that Palace won promotion to Division Two to leave the lower reaches of the Football League for the first time in 39 years . |
| 8 | Scott , revealing details of the 500-page bid document for the first time , insisted the big selling point was the proximity of the sports venues to the competitors ' village , which would be in a canalside setting in the heart of the city . |
| 9 | Now available by mail order for the first time ( call for a brochure ) , we have 30 Make-Up Removers worth £7.25 each to give away . |
| 10 | Moreover luck sometimes prevented the family conflicts of the Merovingians from getting out of hand : accident of survival meant that the kingdom was united in 558 , when Chlothar I was left as the only surviving son of Clovis , and was able to unite the regnum Francorum for the first time in forty-seven years . |
| 11 | The end of a 10-year drought : David Gower hits the winning runs and England have beaten Pakistan in a Test match for the first time since 1982 |
| 12 | The end of a 10-year drought : David Gower hits the winning runs and England have beaten Pakistan in a Test match for the first time since 1982 |
| 13 | He believes if Jones , Paul Moriarty and skipper Young tame the visitors ' more experienced forwards , Wales ' gifted backline can upset England on home soil for the first time since 1949 . |
| 14 | The need to prepare the economies for unemployment and social security provision for the first time will be the important issues . |
| 15 | Ian McMillan , from Industrial Engineering , and James Mitchell , from Crabtree Weaving section , took the JR Walker Trophy for the first time in the competition . |
| 16 | JO DURIE and Clare Wood gave British tennis a welcome boost when they beat defending champions Holland 2–1 to win the European women 's team event for the first time in Prague yesterday . |
| 17 | The ambitious plans were revealed when the company threw open the doors of its showpiece development for the first time yesterday . |
| 18 | The US Defence Secretary , Richard Cheney , confirmed on Dec. 26 , 1989 , that the F-117A Stealth light attack aircraft , one of the newest fighter aircraft , had been tested in a combat role for the first time in the Panamanian invasion . |
| 19 | BARRELS of bitter are being shipped to a Gulf state for the first time — after a plea by thirsty Britons living there . |
| 20 | These included all four of the former English colleges of education ( technical ) , some of the extra-mural centres formerly attached to the colleges , and other institutions which were moving into further education teacher training for the first time . |
| 21 | As her record sold in millions and she began to entertain ideas of being a full time pop star for the first time , Kylie knew who she had to thank . |
| 22 | You may think that the moment of those first tottering steps was special , but believe me , absolutely nothing compares with the sight of one 's own child doggy-paddling across a swimming pool for the first time ( or indeed doggy-paddling through Twinkle Twinkle Little Star on the violin , with a not-dissimilar arm action ) . |
| 23 | The long-established tendency for national populations to become more concentrated in large metropolitan centres and their surrounding hinterlands was found to be interrupted , if not broken : major cities were losing population not just from their older inner areas but from their whole city regions , while more remote rural areas with a history of depopulation began to record population growth for the first time for decades ( Morrison and Wheeler , 1976 ; Vining and Strauss , 1977 ; Vining and Kontuly , 1978 ; Brown and Wardwell , 1980 ; Fielding , 1982 ) . |
| 24 | I I what I want to do is make , if people going into selling advertising for the first time and most people are let's face it |
| 25 | The Army began calling up reserves for combat training for the first time in the crisis to date ( the Marines having done so a week previously ) . |
| 26 | Powering up The Needles lighthouse is being connected with mains electricity for the first time in its 134-year history . |
| 27 | Sharpe put two efforts wide before he got on the score sheet for the first time this season , courtesy of Cantona , after 77 minutes . |
| 28 | Chris was nervous entering an Iron Curtain country for the first time . |
| 29 | He claims that about 200,000 people will be brought into the tax net for the first time and that the NI increase will , for the majority , be the equivalent of an increase of a penny on the standard tax rate . |
| 30 | Sucking in a deep lungful of smoke , he looked back at the fiercely blazing funeral pyre for the first time . |