Example sentences of "[vb pp] in [noun] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( It is also relevant to Athenian fears that , as Livy tells us under the year 431 , Carthage now encroached in Sicily for the first time , iv.29.8 with R. M. Ogilvie ( 1965 ) Commentary on Livy i-v , Oxford . ) |
| 2 | The exhibition , running until 27 June , comprises 130 items from French and Spanish collections including vessels carved in semiprecious stones and mounted in enamelled and jewelled gold , from the ‘ tresor ’ of the Grand Dauphin , presented in France for the first time since the eighteenth century , and works by French painters such as Michel-Ange Houasse , Louis-Michel Van Loo and Jean Ranc and sculptors Rene Fremin and Jean Thierry , who were commissioned by Philip to decorate his palaces . |
| 3 | In 1947 the Methodist Conference met in Portadown for the first time . |
| 4 | These potatoes are round and white , a new Dutch strain , being grown in Britain for the first time this year . |
| 5 | 3D cinema THE NEXT generation of cinema technology from Imax will be shown in Europe for the first time at the Expo ‘ 92 world fair in Seville , which begins this month . |
| 6 | Genzyme announced last week that Ceredase , its drug for Gaucher disease , is being used in Britain for the first time in 10 patients seriously ill with the rare and potentially fatal inherited disease . |
| 7 | The M6 crosses on the Thornbridge Viaduct , a viaduct which has been extensively repaired last year using a very powerful water lance to cut out deteriorated concrete , a German tool being used in Britain for the first time . |
| 8 | In September , 1990 , the epidemic strain was isolated in Manchester for the first time ( patient M6 ) and by the end of that year was responsible for 4 of the 11 P cepacia cases . |
| 9 | A joint venture between English Nature and London Zoo 's Invertebrate Conservation team has resulted in Britain 's most endangered bush cricket , the wart-biter ( Decticus verrucivorus ) being successfully reared in captivity for the first time . |
| 10 | Despite the lines round her mouth and the flecks of grey in her hair , there was a bloom in her cheeks and her eyes shone like those of a girl who has fallen in love for the first time . |
| 11 | They are joined in Brighton for the first time by LONDON NEW MUSIC . |
| 12 | In the strict or dictionary sense The Lord of the Rings evades that concept totally , for according to the OED ‘ defeatism ’ is a straight borrowing from French défaitisme , recorded in English for the first time in 1918 and meaning ‘ Conduct tending to bring about acceptance of defeat , esp . |
| 13 | These are the 13th championships and they 're being staged in Oxford for the first time . |
| 14 | The 10-week course , held in Londonderry for the first time , was aimed at women with a commercial idea which they wanted to turn into a business , or who wanted to develop a business already started . |