Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wilcox looked startled , caught off balance for the first time . |
| 2 | ( 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 . ) |
| 3 | Some black children may have had their first experience of Jamaican Creole from reggae lyrics , while others may have been attracted to Creole for the first time because of the music . |
| 4 | This is one of three drawings of Lopokova by Picasso , the latter having come to London for the first time to work on designs and sets for Massine 's Le Tricorne , writes Joanna Gibbon . |
| 5 | Many Irish women , including myself , who had come to England for the first time were truly shocked by the levels of anti-Irish racism directed at us . |
| 6 | Coventry v Southampton Having just won at Liverpool for the first time , Coventry ought to be in the mood to take Southampton even though the latter have lost only once in a dozen games . |
| 7 | Child benefit will be frozen at £9.65 for the first child and £7.80 for others when Chancellor Norman Lamont unveils next year 's spending package . |
| 8 | Revenues per employee has risen above $300,000 for the first time . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In 1947 the Methodist Conference met in Portadown for the first time . |
| 11 | These potatoes are round and white , a new Dutch strain , being grown in Britain for the first time this year . |
| 12 | Together the two are priced at $10,000 for the first copy . |
| 13 | It was the following year that the ghost was seen at Althorp for the first time . |
| 14 | Part of a silver table service made by Lieberkuhn for the first banquet at Sanssouci , held in 1747 to celebrate the opening of the palace has been reassembled , together with portraits of the king and his family , including nineteenth-century scenes such as Menzel 's ‘ Flute concert at Sanssouci ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Microsoft Corp 's MS-DOS 6 , which will be available on Wednesday , will be offered at $50 for the first 60 days , and $130 thereafter , the company said : the two most compelling new features , the company says , are data compression to double hard disk space , and improved memory management ; it also includes the capability to back up files , protect against viruses and reorganize files on the hard disk — the back-up technology was licensed from Symantec Corp 's Peter Norton group , and the anti-viral technology from Central Point Software Inc — but unlike Symantec 's Norton Back-Up , the back-up feature in MS-DOS 6 is n't automatic and does n't support tape drives , and is also slower — and about 300 new viruses have been discovered since Central Point 's virus detection technology was frozen in MS-DOS 6 code ; both companies hope to sell enhancements to the built-in products to users . |
| 19 | TOUGH Belfast-style stop and search tactics are to be used across Britain for the first time to combat IRA bombers . |
| 20 | His voice moved up a register , from baritone to tenor , and it was tinged with irritation for the first time that evening . |
| 21 | More than three-quarters of the requested items which were at binding were serial parts being bound into volumes for the first time . |
| 22 | To add to Darlington 's problems , centre Steve Ellis was injured in the second half and club skipper Mark Layfield was called into action for the first time in two months following injury . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Notably , the Communist Party ( CPSU ) newspaper Pravda on April 29 gave a devastating assessment of the state of the economy , based on statistics for the first quarter of 1990 which showed falls of 1.0 per cent in gross national product and 1.2 per cent in industrial productivity ; an inflation rate in the consumer sector of 8.0 per cent ( but featuring increases in food prices of up to 20 per cent ) ; and a balance-of-trade deficit of 1,700 million roubles ( approximately US$2,800 million ) . |
| 25 | It was probably in consequence of this great accession of landed wealth that Holland was summoned to Parliament for the first time in July 1314 . |
| 26 | Its subsidiaries , including interests in financial services , personal pensions , in collaboration with Colonial Mutual , and investment management , contributed to profits for the first time . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | They are joined in Brighton for the first time by LONDON NEW MUSIC . |
| 30 | Between the 1950s and early 1970s , 140 million hectares in the region were brought under cultivation for the first time ( Ortega 1982 ) . |