Example sentences of "[vb past] for the [num ord] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | It met for the first time on 25 February 1986 and includes representatives from the Departments of Transport , Environment , Employment , and Trade and Industry ; Kent County Council ; the district councils of ; elected members of Kent local authorities and Parliamentary constituencies ; Eurotunnel ; Transmanche Link ; and British Rail . |
| 2 | They all met for the first time on the show . |
| 3 | They met for the first time on May 13th 1794 , a date which had been specified in the statute . |
| 4 | Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir , in January [ see p. 38710 ] was formed on Feb. 13 under the chairmanship of Col. Mohammed al-Amin Khalifah ; it met for the first time on Feb. 24 in the building which formerly housed the National Assembly — the elected parliament overthrown by Bashir in June 1989 [ see p. 36728 ] . |
| 5 | Western Samoa 's new Fono ( unicameral legislature ) assembled for the first time on May 7 , following the country 's first general election under universal suffrage on April 5 . |
| 6 | ANC president Nelson Mandela indicated for the first time on Dec. 29 that the ANC would consider the possibility of guaranteeing white seats in a future parliament along the lines agreed under the 1979 Lancaster House settlement on Zimbabwean independence [ see pp. 30165-75 ] . |
| 7 | America 's four-jet airliner flew for the first time on July 15 , 1954 and immediately revolutionised the world of mass air travel . |
| 8 | The prototype , F-WLKB , flew for the first time on 4 May 63 with Pratt and Whitney JT-12A-8 engines of 3,000 lbs thrust . |
| 9 | He lost for the first time on Saturday . |
| 10 | Lithuania 's President Vytautas Landsbergis attended for the first time on June 12 a meeting of the USSR Council of the Federation , comprising the Presidents of the 15 union republics ( previously he had refused to participate on the grounds that he was the head of a foreign state ) . |
| 11 | She pursed her lips and reached for the next letter on the pile of personal correspondence brought in by her secretary . |
| 12 | Nonetheless , George Albert Smith 's name stands as the inventor of a colour process which was viable , which was shown worldwide , and which presented for the first time on the screen a photographically produced colour picture . |
| 13 | At precisely the same time as circumcision and the blood of circumcision was receiving this new casting and additional dimension , legislation about female blood — i.e. the blood of menstruation and childbirth — appeared for the first time on the scene . |
| 14 | In the final game Waikato took the honours 28–24 , leafing Rugby Canada to wonder just how long it would be before they won for the first time on New Zealand soil . |
| 15 | The Secret Committee on the Peasant Question , which convened for the first time on 3 January 1857 , consisted entirely of Nicholaevan grandees . |
| 16 | It is perhaps surprising to find that Jacques married for the first time on 31 March 1728 at the age of 55 . |