Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun sg] [noun] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday both Scots put the nightmare of Barcelona behind them , and made their dreams of becoming world champions for the first time come true . |
| 2 | There have also been symbolic measures ( such as restoring pay beds in NHS facilities ) , minor cuts ( such as withdrawal of supplementary benefits in vacations for students ) , some marginal privatization ( from 1986 employers were made responsible for paying sickness benefit for the first 28 weeks of an employee 's absence from work ) , tougher criteria ( people have to be ‘ actually seeking work ’ to be entitled to receive unemployment benefit and since 1 988 housing benefit is paid to fewer households ) , and an increase in the numbers relying on private medical insurance ( from 4 to 8 per cent since 1979 ) . |
| 3 | Note : sandstone grades are for on-sight ascents using rope knots for the first time . |
| 4 | The never-say-die 69 year-old widower is also taking piano lessons for the first time . |
| 5 | Deploying fighter aircraft for the first time since the 1991 Gulf war , with some flights north of the 36th parallel ( i.e. over the Kurdish " safe haven " area ) , the Iraqis also built up in early April their deployment of ground forces , surface-to-air missiles and radar tracking equipment directed north of the 36th parallel , apparently seeking to capitalize on US inaction over " skirmishes " with the Kurds . |
| 6 | In the depth of the recession , with the motor industry suffering more than most , Rover is introducing night shifts for the first time in three years . |
| 7 | For example , it was pointed out to me that some teachers were making lesson notes for the first time in years ! |
| 8 | The company now intends shipping production code for the first time this week , saying it has hundreds of orders . |
| 9 | It intends shipping production code for the first time this week , saying it has hundreds of orders . |
| 10 | Alongside the new universities themselves , starting their degree courses from scratch and employing large numbers of sometimes rather dubiously qualified new lecturers , there was a parallel development in the polytechnics , many of them offering degree courses for the first time , and devising courses in subjects such as literature , languages , and philosophy that had nothing whatever to do with the technology-based courses for which they had first been invented . |
| 11 | Sucking in a deep lungful of smoke , he looked back at the fiercely blazing funeral pyre for the first time . |