Example sentences of "of [noun] for the first time " in BNC.

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1 Even the bookmakers lost faith in the world champion who began the event without the status of favourite for the first time in three years .
2 Of birds for the first time ever heard ,
3 And yesterday it emerged that Britain 's inflation rate of 4.1pc had fallen below that of Germany for the first time in 25 years .
4 Butter is in the supermarkets of Timisoara for the first time since March last year .
5 and at the end of the national hunt racing season … celebrations for Gloucestershire 's top stables … trainer David Nicholson reached a century of winners for the first time and champion jockey Richard Dunwoody finished with 173 … a record year for them both
6 Whether jury after retirement should be allowed to hear tape recording of interview for the first time — practice
7 LAST autumn , the Bank was back on television in most of Scotland for the first time in more than two years with a campaign of three commercials .
8 Here he 'd smelt the air of England for the first time , the crisp October air ; here he 'd fed first , drunk first ; first had cause for laughter , and later , for tears .
9 She also looked great — out of dungarees for the first time and into a becomingly simple black dress .
10 There was a certain rapprochement though , as Mary came down with her things in the back-pack Rufus had lent her and wearing jeans and a pair of sandals for the first time for days .
11 It was not until 1966 that the transcontinental standard-gauge line was completed , thereby connecting Sydney to Perth without break of gauge for the first time .
12 It was during this period that the boroughs of Bethnal Green , Stepney , Mile End and Poplar witnessed a net loss of population for the first time .
13 The seminars , which will be held in Dundee and Glasgow , will focus on the second phase of general SVQs , though they may also include workshops for centres wanting to pilot the first batch of awards for the first time .
14 COLIN Montgomerie experienced the torture chamber of Baltusrol for the first time yesterday and insisted the time had come for Europe to demolish America 's stranglehold on the U.S. Open .
15 Their most pressing concern was the seven-year-old Iran-Iraq war , and the Palestine question was pushed to the bottom of the list of priorities for the first time in the history of the Arab League .
16 After weeks of private anguish followed by questionable closed-door lobbying of the leading minds of the Royal College of Science , Darwin found himself forced to go public on the issue of evolution for the first time , when both their papers were read at the Linnean Society of London on that momentous July evening of 1858 .
17 She sobs loudly in his arms , relieved of the company of strangers for the first time .
18 CHINA : Amnesty International was publicly recognised by a senior government official in the People 's Republic of China for the first time last year , in connection with the commutation of the death sentence of Lobsang Tenzin , a Tibetan student accused of the murder of a Chinese policeman .
19 If an overweight man in his fifties who is a heavy smoker , has a family history of heart disease and is working in a stressful job were to decide to ‘ get fit ’ and invite a colleague for a game of squash for the first time in twenty years , he would be doing just about the best he could to give himself a heart attack .
20 The Military Committee of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) met at the level of chiefs of staff for the first time in 1991 on April 11-12 at the organization 's political headquarters in Brussels , under the chairmanship of Gen. Vigleik Eide ( Norway ) .
21 Anyone seeing such works of sculpture for the first time can not fail to note the harmonious line described through the perfectly proportioned bodies of the men and women portrayed .
22 Under the Government 's fund-holding initiative , doctors have control over their own spending on behalf of patients for the first time .
23 I made a lot of friends and was introduced to the wonders of television for the first time .
24 For , when one experiences a piece of furniture for the first time , it is usually through those top two or three microns of surface coating .
25 ‘ She is now out of plaster for the first time in ten years and can get into a bath , ’ she said .
26 The colonisation of new land , and its demarcation into private estates , created thousands of miles of boundaries for the first time .
27 But as the Labour parliamentary front bench scents the thaw , and surveys the possibility of government for the first time in a decade , the party pressures running in favour of detente are increasing .
28 Conservative commentators are urging Republicans to stage an all-out attack on Mr Clinton as an old-fashioned ‘ tax-and-spend ’ liberal , locked out of government for the first time since 1981 ,
29 A man like Mr Silvester Horne is regarded by his congregation with feelings of almost unmeasured adoration , due to the fact that he and they are really opening the book of life for the first time together and comparing impressions .
30 There was some laughter at a dinner party when one of the guests admitted she had eaten and enjoyed a plate of spinach for the first time in twenty-five years .
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