Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strangely , it was later used for the first city telegraph ! |
| 2 | Fibre Channel Standard technology was also featured for the first time in a cluster and high-speed networking environment . |
| 3 | On the way back from that holiday in Provence , the party stopped in Paris , which John was also seeing for the first time . |
| 4 | But in 1888 , two years after my father was born , the newly constituted county councils were created and Oxfordshire was systematically governed for the first time . |
| 5 | The existence of the Secret Intelligence Service ( SIS ) , commonly known as MI6 , was publicly acknowledged for the first time by the government when Major announced on May 6 that the service would , like its domestic intelligence counterpart MI5 [ see p. 37158 ] , be placed on a statutory basis during the 1992-93 session of Parliament , and confirmed that its Chief was Sir Colin McColl . |