Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] the first [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the report the former President , Chiang Kai-shek was criticized for the first time for failing to punish the officials responsible for the massacre . |
| 2 | Filled for the first time in twenty years , Lake Eyre became a rich source of food , attracting tens of thousands of birds whose closest usual breeding area is five hundred miles to the south . |
| 3 | Eight months earlier he made an abortive attempt for the title , then held by the Frenchman Franck Nicotra , only to be stopped for the first time in his professional career . |
| 4 | Nor should it be forgotten , as Professor Orth has pointed out , that in 1799 penalties were prescribed for the first time for workmen as a class , not for hatters or paper makers as a special group ; in other words , the language of the act was concerned with a horizontal social division , not with the reconciliation of difference within the vertical structure of a craft . |
| 5 | During the relaying of this track , the Marton trams operated in a complete circle , returning to Talbot Square via Royal Oak and Lytham Road , while the St. Annes blue cars were diverted for the first time to the Promenade at Talbot Square . |
| 6 | A 7 day tour to Poland , open to CIT members , spouses , and colleagues has been arranged for the first week of July , boasting a programme , both transport orientated and cultural . |
| 7 | In most cat books , the figure given for the first domestication of the cat is between 3,500 and 4,500 years ago . |
| 8 | More detail is given for the first part on document preparation systems as this has been developed into the HyperCard system described below . |
| 9 | In France the post of Secretary of State for War was given for the first time to a soldier ( the Maréchal de Belle-Isle ) in 1758 ; and in the second half of the century there was a slow but steady tendency for the most important officials concerned , the intendants d'armées and the contrôleurs des guerres , to be military men . |
| 10 | The prizewinner was presented with a cup , which had been given for the first time in 1987 . |
| 11 | The plates were developed for the first migration in a solvent saturated chamber consisting of chloroform/methanol/ammonium hydrate/water 184:105:7.5:7.5 vol and then dried in cold air . |
| 12 | Strikes were legalized for the first time in Bulgaria 's history when on March 6 the National Assembly passed a bill on settling collective industrial disputes . |
| 13 | Fire ripped through the first floor of the Afro-West Indian Centre in Marton Road , Middlesbrough , early yesterday . |
| 14 | Flown for the first time in 1958 , the DHC-4 Caribou has seen extensive military service . |
| 15 | The first PC-5A assembled in India was flown for the first time in August 1941 and one report suggests that fifty were delivered to the Indian Air Force from 1942 , but this has not been confirmed . |
| 16 | The high level of technical ability of Roman engineers , together with the well-developed commercial economy , meant that major civil engineering schemes could also be undertaken for the first time in the landscape . |
| 17 | CHURCH collections have fallen for the first time for more than a decade , it emerged today . |
| 18 | UNEMPLOYMENT in Britain has fallen for the first time in almost three years . |
| 19 | indeed , Mo Johnston , recalled for the first time in two months , was the only Everton player in the starting line-up who had managed a goal in front of the Goodison public . |
| 20 | When the Mughal court was disbanded , Muslim hijras were exposed for the first time to the other , Hindu , tradition of eunuchry . |
| 21 | The price factors are calculated for the first day of the delivery month , and adjustments have to be made for accrued interest where the first day of the delivery month does not coincide with a coupon payment date . |
| 22 | Finally , Yusuf advanced and the thunderous roll of the Moorish drums was heard for the first time on Spanish soil . |
| 23 | They were not to learn of the German reaction for some nine months , when the commandos again visited the Lofoten Islands , but the world heard for the first time of British commandos that night in German broadcasts : ‘ Light naval forces destroyed several fishing boats and landed commandos in the Norwegian skerries where they took prisoner some Germans and Norwegians . ’ |
| 24 | The twenty-five dealers specialising in drawings and paintings are joined for the first time by Colnaghi who opened a small Paris branch in May and are keeping their exhibits a closely guarded secret . |
| 25 | Representatives of the United Kingdom and Argentine governments were joined for the first time by a Falklands official in talks on fishing controls held in the Argentinian capital , Buenos Aires , in May 1991 . |
| 26 | Tyrothricin can reasonably be regarded as the first antibiotic to be established as a therapeutic substance . |
| 27 | In so far as it explained his personal ideology to the French people , it may be regarded as the first speech of de Gaulle the politician , as opposed to de Gaulle the symbol . |
| 28 | The move was widely regarded as the first step towards full normalization of diplomatic relations , which had been suspended after the communist victory in the Vietnam war in 1975 . |
| 29 | The local club , Cremonese , won for the first time since gaining promotion - and their victims were the European Cup holders , Milan . |
| 30 | The Prix de l'Avenir — Marne la Vallée , worth F30,000 was won for the first time by kayak paddler Bernard Bregeon . |