Example sentences of "is [verb] [adv] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The true theory of the Nicol prism was not clearly understood even by its inventor , but in a neglected paper by Edward Sang the mathematical theory is given completely for the first time ; this also contains a suggestion , made forty-seven years later by M. E. Bertrand in the Comptes Rendus , that a polarizer might be constructed of two glass prisms separated by a suitably placed thin layer of Iceland spar . |
| 2 | This procedure is depicted above for the first three values of the repeated median smooth , shown in full in figure 9.9 : Thus 47 is the value to be smoothed , the skip mean 43.5 is the mean of 40 and 47 and the smoothed value 45.2 is the rounded mean of 47 and 43.5 . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's a very good thing he 's been involved in the pre-tour training at Lilleshall and is going along for the first three weeks of the Indian tour to bowl in the nets . |
| 4 | Howe , who underwent heart by-pass surgery four-and-a-half years ago , is speaking publicly for the first time since entering hospital earlier this month with a mystery chest complaint . |
| 5 | Will Carling , the captain of England , is travelling there for the first time and the selectors decided not to weigh him down with the cares of office . |
| 6 | ‘ In it , the goal of a federal European state is spelled out for the first time . ’ |
| 7 | Thus competition is singled out for the first time as the chosen mechanism for ensuring the public interest . |
| 8 | The book is published now for the first time as a result of scholarly study by Steve Joshua Heims of the cybernetics group of the late 1940s . |