Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] for the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | WC apps : 2 Mike Smith , the former manager of Wales and Egypt , takes a lot of credit for giving the Egyptians the impetus to reach the finals for the first time . |
| 32 | Jack Charlton 's Irish , in the finals for the first time , join Colombia , Uruguay , Czechoslovakia , Romania and Sweden in the third pool . |
| 33 | The Dutchman Jos Lansink , the only rider left with a chance of meeting the conditions for the first Everest Challenge ( which had required him to jump double clear rounds in four specified contests ) , would have collected a Jaguar car if he had won the Grand Prix . |
| 34 | The figures for the first quarter of 1990 showed an increase of 15 per cent on the corresponding period of 1989 , the largest rise in crime since records began in 1857 . |
| 35 | While finance director Henry Elstone said that the company grew by approximately 6.5% organically , the figures for the first time also include a full year 's contribution from ESD Distribution Ltd , which Farnell acquired in July 1991 for £61m . |
| 36 | Nissan sponsored the championships for the first time as part of its community relations work . |
| 37 | Most spectacular was the televising of the Illuminations for the first time in 1951 , using toastrack 166 . |
| 38 | Keighley has also been involved in the arrangements for the first conference of clinical research nurses , at which they hope formally to launch a national organisation ( still to be named ) . |
| 39 | I held my breath as the announcer introduced the players for the first match . |
| 40 | I was not consulted about membership of the Group , and with the exception of Dr Charles Suckling , a member of the Kingman Committee , I met the members for the first time when we assembled in London for our opening working session . |
| 41 | It 's included in the games for the first time . |
| 42 | An extra-full crew of Swallows — Bridget is old enough to join in the adventures for the first time — and the two visiting Amazons turn surveyors , until they encounter those muddy indigenous savages , the Eels and the Mastodon , and the hostilities replace exploration . |
| 43 | The most dramatic improvement has been among arctic terns , which are breeding on the islands for the first time in seven years . |
| 44 | Wordsworth writes as if he is a new kind of human being , like Adam naming the creatures for the first time . |
| 45 | So obviously we are looking to get the points for the first time . |
| 46 | Until he won the Paris Open earlier this month — where he also beat world No 1 Courier — he was n't even certain to qualify for this ‘ best eight ’ in the world ’ tournament , having fallen to 10th in the rankings for the first time in eight years , and failing to make a Grand Slam final for the first time in five . |
| 47 | And the Tynesiders could be among the medals for the first time since they won the event in 1987 and 1988 . |
| 48 | The company has just released the Interim Report showing the results for the first half of the current financial year . |
| 49 | The presence at the negotiations for the first time of Armenia 's President , Levon Ter-Petrosyan , raised the possibility of Armenia 's signing the Union Treaty . |
| 50 | Not suprisingly , it was a nerve-racking finale but eventually the more experienced Australians triumphed 5-7 , 6-4 , 6-0 , to carry their country into the semi-finals for the first time in four years . |
| 51 | And then world-class backs Martin Offiah , captain Dean Bell and Martin Offiah will surely end the Cumbrians ' run of nine victories and destroy their hopes of reaching the semi-finals for the first time in the club 's history . |
| 52 | In the other quarter-final , 12th-seeded Czech Helena Sukova held off Katerina Maleeva of Bulgaria 6–4 6–7 6–3 to return to reach the semi-finals for the first time since 1987 . |
| 53 | In the guerilla areas of El Salvador , the peasants for the first time have the chance to administer their own lives and here they have set up elected councils , along with health and education programs and they organise production ( Pearce 1986 ) . |
| 54 | The rent of the premises for the first week of £50 is paid . |
| 55 | Two colonels and three US advisers , one of them military , attended the talks for the first time . |
| 56 | The Kurdish delegation was led by Masoud Barzani , leader of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan ( DPK ) , who attended the talks for the first time . |
| 57 | She felt her stroke was due to the fertility drugs she had taken before each pregnancy , rather than to the childbirth itself : for the fifth pregnancy she had received injections of the drugs for the first time . |
| 58 | Republic of Ireland U-21 player Byrne , from Dublin , was the star of the show as Bangor scored their first ever Irish Cup win over Linfield to reach the semis for the first time in 25 years . |
| 59 | I was going to miss that magic moment of seeing air under the tyres for the first time . |
| 60 | The old zeks say that a man is weakest when he comes to the camps for the first time , when the desire for life is first squeezed from him . |