Example sentences of "in [noun prp] for the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are joined in Brighton for the first time by LONDON NEW MUSIC . |
| 2 | Fears of recession which heightened the perception of silver as an industrial metal and heavy over-supply over an extended period , caused prices to plummet to below $4.00 a troy ounce in mid-December for the first time in fifteen years . |
| 3 | Several Cabinet ministers will address the two-day gathering which is being held at the Royal International Pavilion in Llangollen for the first time . |
| 4 | The old flag was raised over the Supreme Soviet building in Riga for the first time on Feb. 27 . |
| 5 | Dale Gordon set foot in Scotland for the first time in his life yesterday to complete a £1.2 million move from Norwich to Rangers — took one look at the imposing new-look Ibrox which will become his home and admitted : ‘ I 'm gobsmacked ! ’ |
| 6 | Soon red kites , breeding again in Scotland for the first time in 100 years , may be added to their list . |
| 7 | I was looking forward to being a guest in Ireland for the first time , instead of merely a paying guest . |
| 8 | Charlie Haughey : the man who groomed a woman to lead one of the major political parties in Ireland for the first time . |
| 9 | ( 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 . ) |
| 10 | Thus a limited constitution with a representative body , the Duma appeared in Russia for the first time . |
| 11 | Today , South Africa play rugby in England for the first time in nearly 23 years when a line-up containing five current internationals faces the Midlands at Leicester 's Welford Road . |
| 12 | With the scheduling of the 1992 Asian Classic — in Thailand for the first time this year — for January 30 , and the new World Championship for mid-December each year , the professional golf season now effectively covers 12 months , involving more travel than ever before . |
| 13 | There are bound to be some tears around the 4th and 10th but , with Jupiter in Libra for the first time in a decade , you can not allow yourself to be constrained any more . |
| 14 | A visitor arriving in Zurich for the first time will almost certainly do so with a preconceived idea of a feverishly busy city where austere-faced financiers wearing dark suits hurry past in search of the next billion dollars , where bankers huddle together in back rooms like a secret society , a place resembling a web from the centre of which threads reach out to manipulate the money markets of the world , and everything is subordinate to profit . |
| 15 | To help visitors who are in Zurich for the first time , the tourist office has worked out four planned itineraries . |
| 16 | In July , because of the new Soviet approach , Khruschev , Bulganin , Eisenhower , Eden ( Churchill had now retired ) and France 's Edgar Faure met in Geneva for the first summit of East-West leaders since Potsdam , exactly ten years before . |
| 17 | On the basis of these and other clinical results , MicroGeneSys gp160 was chosen by scientists at the Karolinska Institute , the National Bacteriological Laboratory and South Hospital in Sweden for the first phase III vaccine therapy studies . |
| 18 | The Conservatives , fighting in Ulster for the first time in 70 years , failed to win any seats . |
| 19 | The 10-week course , held in Londonderry for the first time , was aimed at women with a commercial idea which they wanted to turn into a business , or who wanted to develop a business already started . |
| 20 | A COURSE in cancer counselling is to be run at Magee College in Londonderry for the first time . |
| 21 | The trio are said to have run off after punching the glass-framed painting , House and the Vessel by Canadian artist Elaine Kowalsky , who is exhibiting her work in Liverpool for the first time , at a private viewing at the Merkmal Gallery , Faulkner Street , Toxteth . |
| 22 | These potatoes are round and white , a new Dutch strain , being grown in Britain for the first time this year . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Michael Roberts rode six winners in a day in Britain for the first time on Saturday . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The 1851 census revealed that in Britain for the first time more people lived in towns than in the country and that trend continued . |
| 27 | He is determined to lead his injury-stricken outfit to victory in France for the first time in 22 years and last night insisted : ‘ I 've had to fight for respect in rugby league . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The good times have returned at Rover , and yesterday the company announced it was reintroducing night-shift working at its Cowley plant in Oxford for the first time in three years . |
| 30 | These are the 13th championships and they 're being staged in Oxford for the first time . |