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

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1 Application for admission to the first year of these courses should be made on the University 's direct entry form directly to the University of Ulster .
2 Lord Salmon said he could find no sensible basis for the " astonishing " proposition that the valuer should be liable for negligence in the first instance , but not in the second .
3 Prime Minister Mouloud Hamrouche , who was to stand for election for the first time , said that the ruling National Liberation Front ( FLN ) might consider entering into a coalition with one of the secular opposition parties , either before or after the election .
4 A second round of voting , in constituencies which had not been able to complete their quota of candidates , was announced for May 8 ; in this round , the candidates with most votes would be declared elected , even if they received less than the 30 per cent required for election in the first round .
5 There are currently two systems installed at the Lower Shakespeare Drift with a further six due for installation during the first quarter of 1993 .
6 An important headstart for Swindon in the first leg of the play offs .
7 And er I 've already referred to a byproduct of over-provision that sites are then moved on to sh car showrooms and erm supermarkets which are needs which or demands which would probably not have justified the allocation of the land for industry in the first place but once the land is allocated to industry it seems to be thought that no harm would be done by allocating those to something else .
8 documentation necessary for submission of the first outline course proposals under Batch 1 of the new , operational system ;
9 Practice varies from faculty to faculty : for example , mostfaculties will accept SCOTVEC modules when these are offered in combination with other school-leaving qualifications ; some will make offers on the basis of Ordinary or Higher National Certificates or Diplomas for entry to the first year of study , while the Faculty of Science and Engineering will in appropriate circumstances consider such qualifications as a basis for entry to the second year .
10 Forward sales for completion in the first half of this year are sufficient to meet internal targets , Mr Maunders said .
11 The archetype here is Guillaume Apollinaire , special pleader for modernism before the first World War .
12 In a separate housing initiative in the north-east , plans were revealed for housing co-operatives in Grampian to build homes for rent for the first time .
13 He gambolled over the four fences on the run towards the turn for home on the first circuit , and made towards the stands with a commanding lead .
14 In 1786 , when Robert Burns was preparing his poetry for publication for the first time , he took his manuscript to Glenconner and read his poems to the Tennant family for their approval or otherwise .
15 The Act allowed couples to petition for divorce after the first anniversary of their marriage , instead of after three years as had been upheld previously .
16 Clearly that would require a further erm sixteen hectares to be found compared to the hundred and forty five because the hundred and forty five did include an allowance for flexibility in the first place ?
17 I understand that Border , 37 , was within one phone call of losing his job when umpire Steve Randell reported him along with fast bowler Merv Hughes for dissent in the first Test at Brisbane earlier this month .
18 According to the Home Office statistics the number of people applying for asylum in the first quarter of 1992 more than halved , from 3730 a month last year to 1730 a month this year .
19 Both the Britons ' and the IFL literature contained lurid tales of alleged Jewish responsibility for crime , the white slave traffic , for casualties in the First World War , for corrupting public life and for financial malpractices and banking irregularity .
20 He has sent off some ideas to Africa for inclusion in the first draft , which should be ready in about ten days .
21 Dzerzhinsky had been made Commissar for Transport in the first place to deal with internal troubles among the railwaymen , many of whom had opposed the Bolsheviks in 1917 and nearly brought Lenin 's government to its knees after the October Revolution .
22 The East Stand at White Hart Lane , open for business for the first time , provided a gleaming backdrop for Gary Lineker 's first hat-trick for two years , but Gary 's glory game served only to paper over Tottenham 's cracks .
23 I got in touch with my French and German colleagues who agreed to support a UK proposal to place the matter on the agenda when it was presented for approval at the first meeting .
24 This was set as the minimum for contributions to the first loan , in 1522 , men of less substance being let on until , perhaps , the yield had proved disappointing .
25 You said that it takes a long time for development between the first idea being mooted and a workable application of the particular physical principle , and you cited , what , fifty years for the development of a nuclear power station — is there always that time lag in technology ?
26 The DJs heard six songs and were asked for advice on the first single .
27 The root is best dug for use in the first autumn after permanent planting .
28 This is for comparison with the first baseline set .
29 In some words , we can observe a type of stress that is weaker than primary stress but stronger than that of the first syllable of ‘ around ’ , for example in the first syllables of the words ‘ photographic ’ , ‘ anthropology ’ .
30 Any slower rate , as for example in the first half of the eighteenth century , allowed real wages to rise .
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