Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] for the first " in BNC.
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1 | The summit was originally called by Charles Haughey , the Irish Prime Minister and President of the Council for the first six months of 1990 , to discuss the Communities ' response to the prospect of German unification and to the rapid changes in the rest of Eastern Europe . |
2 | Teenager Stephen McAteer scored a remarkable maximum of 100 points from all five judges to bring the All-Ireland Under-19 title out of the country for the first time . |
3 | We have already considered some of the evidence for the first prediction . |
4 | In the A major Quartet , among 20-odd entrances of the complete theme ( with the upbeat ) , twice Mozart wrote a stroke : at the start of the development for the first violin , four bars later for the imitative entrance of the cello , but not for the similar entrance in between , of the middle strings . |
5 | The enclosed questionnaire is part of the work for the first aim . |
6 | The Christian Democrats got only 38.7% of the vote , against 45.1% four years ago , and are being booted out of the government for the first time since the state was founded 45 years ago . |
7 | Igglesden is still troubled by the groin strain which forced him to pull out of the squad for the first Test at Old Trafford while McCague was nursing a pulled hamstring . |
8 | The win took Cambridge to the quarter-finals of the competition for the first time in their history , following their recent proud FA Cup record of reaching the quarter-finals each year from 1988-1990 . |
9 | Simon Cruise returned the opening kick the entire length of the field for the first Touchdown . |
10 | After clinching the Bob Lord Trophy against Runcorn in midweek , Wycombe travel to Altrincham today hoping to relieve Colchester of the leadership for the first time since they went top five months ago . |
11 | Alcohol has edged down from 80 to 78 per mille , but leisure services have risen from 32 per mille to 62 , entirely as a result of the inclusion for the first time of foreign holidays , which are now deemed to account for 30 per mille ( 3 per cent ) of the cost of living . |
12 | ( v ) The prisoner is then informed of the date for the first review , and that this is three years less than the tariff if the first review is to be held less than 17 years before the date of his sentence . |
13 | Curated by Klaus Ottmann , editor of the Journal of Contemporary Art in New York , this exhibition makes use of both floors of the gallery for the first occasion . |
14 | We will seek the directors ' approval to contact the short-listed parties and will provide an anonymous one page synopsis of the company for the first approach . |
15 | Following the Land elections on May 13 , 1990 , in which the CDU lost control of the state for the first time since the mid-1970s [ see p. 37467 ] , the SPD and the Greens reached agreement on the formation of a " red-green " coalition . |
16 | In July 1989 her party secured a huge electoral breakthrough by causing the LDP to lose control of the upper chamber of the Diet for the first time in its history . |
17 | Moreover , at this time , the boundary between the two parts of Britain was drawn southwards so that formerly prosperous parts of the Midlands , particularly the West Midlands conurbation , found themselves on the wrong side of the line for the first time ( Townsend , 1983 ; Green , 1986 ) . |
18 | In complete contrast , nothing will prepare you for the jaw-dropping experience of taking the desert road out of the city for the first time . |
19 | County NatWest , the merchant bank heavily censured by inspectors from the Department of Trade and Industry for its role in the Blue Arrow affair , has dropped out of the table for the first time . |
20 | Swindon have to fight on in the promotion race … while Oxford have to battle on in the relegation scramble … but things are looking up for United … they 're off the bottom of the table for the first time since November thanks to a win at Brighton |
21 | Colette Morrison , Equality Officer , is an Officer of the Association for the first time . |
22 | Sir Richard flew off with wife Sheila Sim yesterday for Hawaii , to work in front of the camera for the first time in 15 years for Steven Spielberg 's latest film Jurassic Park . |
23 | Not the least fascinating aspect of the story , which broke the day after France 's quarter final defeat by Switzerland — and barely three months after the memorable celebrations which had accompanied their winning of the trophy for the first time in 59 years — was that although Noah 's decision was said to have been known to his players and coaches several weeks earlier , no-one apparently bothered to tell French Tennis president , Philippe Chatrier . |
24 | Arsenal will go top of the League for the first time since May '91 today if they beat Coventry and Blackburn slip up against Spurs at Ewood Park . |
25 | Labour 's rather narrow parliamentary majority in 1964 was chiefly an effect of a slump in Tory support and continuing electoral revival of the Liberals ( who received over 10 per cent of the vote for the first time since the war ) . |
26 | The exhibition , which marks the reopening of the palace for the first time since the European Summit conference was held there , runs until 28 March . |
27 | A new reading book , swimming a width of the pool for the first time , managing at last to play the National Anthem on the recorder without a mistake are the sort of milestones well worth a fuss . |