Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Northern Ireland has never won the Home Internationals before but team manager Jim McGrory feels that this year 's selection is good enough to achieve success for the first time . |
| 2 | I HAVE JUST bought Esquire for the first time . |
| 3 | According to Reuter , he is known on Wall Street for his prowess as a cost-cutter and an asset-seller , a reputation that is likely to cause consternation among IBM employees already facing lay-offs for the first time in the company 's history . |
| 4 | Shooting raises fear of sectarian bloodbath Cardinals on either side of the Irish Sea yesterday joined forces for the first time to condemn the IRA , reports Gary Duncan . |
| 5 | He also had a keen grasp of steam locomotive matters and was responsible for introducing suburban passenger locomotives in 1945 , in which year he also made proposals for the first LMS ( and British ) main-line diesel-electric locomotives , which were finally introduced under his successor H. G. Ivatt two years later . |
| 6 | Also representing Scotland for the first time today will be the Ferguslie all-rounder , Stuart Kennedy , who follows in the footsteps of brother , Iain , who was capped six times . |
| 7 | competition , for remember , at that stage he will be hitting you not only with his carefully laid plan for the first phase of his attack , but also , without any doubt whatsoever , he will have his reinforcements grouping for a second and third attack . |
| 8 | I remember some years ago being called by a man who told me he had just now heard things for the first time in the Beethoven Fifth . |
| 9 | We subsequently undertook an additional study of the records of 450 call outs of London police surgeons and are now conducting research for the first comprehensive national study of police surgeons . |
| 10 | The countryside , here called Wessex for the first time , village community life , the joyousness of seasonal festivities , the importance of music — all familiar from Under the Greenwood Tree — are integrated into a more complex story than any Hardy had yet attempted . |
| 11 | Angie Bowie : I actually met David for the first time when he was with feathers at the Roundhouse and I was with the European head of Mercury Records , a gentleman called Lou Reisner . |
| 12 | But you never pay SSP for the first three qualifying days of a PIW . |
| 13 | This chapter certainly finds evidence for the first part of the process , a diminution in importance of the traditional large factory , not least in TNCs with many plants . |