Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] for the first [noun sg] " 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 | ‘ From a planning point of view it would not have been a major worry , although only the force staging the original tie could police the second replay because all the liaison work for the first match would have been done . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And then , of course , only on the day after you took the car to the car wash for the first time in months . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They gave him a bit of consultancy work for the first year , but after that he did n't know what he would do . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Later this month , it will announce an operating profit for the first quarter of 1992 , the second quarter running in which it has been profitable : the last quarter of 1991 produced a small profit of $80 million , although the year as a whole showed a $1.4 billion loss on turnover of $8.6 billion . |
| 17 | In mid-April the Luxembourg government , which held the EC Council presidency for the first half of 1991 , presented a 95-page draft treaty document focusing on political union . |
| 18 | Gary Kildall , whose Digital Research created the CP/M operating system for the first generation of personal computers , did not jump at IBM 's offer . |
| 19 | In slight panic , she climbed off the bed and swopped her jade cotton nightshirt for the first swimsuit which emerged from her case . |
| 20 | The Vodafone Ltd arm of Vodafone Group Plc says gross new connections for its British cellular telephone network for the first quarter of 1993 totalled 92,775 ; net new connections totalled 43,911 , and at the end of the quarter , Vodafone had more than 838,000 subscribers connected to its cellular network , 85,000 of them on the new LowCall tariff that it launched in October . |
| 21 | The need to prepare the economies for unemployment and social security provision for the first time will be the important issues . |
| 22 | Ian McMillan , from Industrial Engineering , and James Mitchell , from Crabtree Weaving section , took the JR Walker Trophy for the first time in the competition . |
| 23 | And with this in mind , hundreds of budding Fred and Ginger 's hot-footed it along to Cheltenham Town Hall for the first Ballroom Dancing Festival . |
| 24 | Santer visited the Soviet Union on Oct. 21-24 , 1990 , shortly before the Grand Duchy took over the presidency of the European Community Council for the first half of 1991 . |
| 25 | The Railway Inspectorate gave safety clearance for the first section of the 20-mile network just 27 months after design and construction started , although the opening was postponed several times because of engineering problems , staff training and general fine-tuning . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The ambitious plans were revealed when the company threw open the doors of its showpiece development for the first time yesterday . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | BARRELS of bitter are being shipped to a Gulf state for the first time — after a plea by thirsty Britons living there . |
| 30 | 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 . |