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

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1 The plates were developed for the first migration in a solvent saturated chamber consisting of chloroform/methanol/ammonium hydrate/water 184:105:7.5:7.5 vol and then dried in cold air .
2 O over this election , what you 've got ta do is every night , is if you 're interested is watch it for the first quarter of an hour of the news every night .
3 By taking the computer processing offshore on to the survey boat — the Geco Resolution — for the first survey over a prospect in Block 6 , the seismic team were able to collapse the serial process of acquisition , processing and initial interpretation , to a parallel process .
4 Details are not yet available , but one proposal is to establish regular deadlines for grant applications and to require for the first selection round a short summary of project proposals rather than the full 20-page application , as is now the case .
5 An earlier request for compensatory financing , together with a request for the first tranche of a standby arrangement , had been approved by the IMF in January 1991 [ see p. 38006 ] .
6 As Mrs Helmsley , 71 , settled in a Kentucky prison for the first night of a four-year sentence for tax evasion , the New York panorama became a model smile marred by a missing tooth .
7 The Swindon rider , 20 , who is also the Australian under-21 champion , has been named at No 1 for the first Test of a three-match series .
8 Even for the first child in a family , despite the fact that this year 's uprating mainly benefited first children , there is still a shortfall of 75p a week .
9 Consider using an outside potential purchaser for the first meeting as a trial run .
10 This is the recommended choice for the first viewing of a DIG file , for the display process is much more rapid than if the data are output directly to a plotter .
11 King Fahd of Saudi Arabia visited Baghdad at the end of March for the first visit by a Saudi monarch since Iraq 's Baathist revolution of 1968 .
12 In the meantime , one might look for the first appearance of a new journal in March Educational Action Research .
13 These are prices to book extra sailing options for the first week of a Villa-Flotilla in Nidri or Yalikavak , or Shore Holiday in Nidri .
14 This is usual for the first week after a strike but it would not surprise me if things began to happen later in the week .
15 Yeltsin and Bush had also agreed in principle that Russian cosmonauts should fly aboard a US space shuttle and conduct joint space walks with US astronauts in October 1993 , and agreed to ( i ) a possible rendezvous and docking mission between the Mir and the US space shuttle in 1994 or 1995 ; ( ii ) possible US participation in a Russian robot mission to Mars ; ( iii ) joint exchange visits by US and Russian aerospace companies to investigate joint ventures and procurement opportunities ; and ( iv ) US support for the first launch of a US-built satellite aboard a Russian Proton rocket .
16 The research by Yorkshire TV paid off last Sunday when 18 million tuned in for the first episode of A Touch of Frost .
17 He managed to stay off alcohol because for the first time for a very long time he was truly afraid .
18 For the first time for a long while , Corbett felt wanted and warmed to these simple yet sophisticated men so bound up in their own routine of prayer , work and study that they regarded any visitor as a visible sign of God 's grace .
19 ‘ Father Tom , ’ he said , as if he were meeting Carey for the first time for a long time .
20 For the first time for a century woman discovered that men wanted something more human from them than a nun-like chastity , a bien pensant idealism .
21 I 'll stick my neck out , come on , we 're going to say they 're going to do it , for the first time for a long long time .
22 That product there already either exists or we 're going to do it for the first time for an estate agent
23 Harold Wilson 's government introduced the original Redundancy Payments Act 1965 , which gave redundant workers the right for the first time to a statutory severance payment if they satisfied certain qualifying conditions .
24 The music ranges from the familiar to the unknown — from an early opera played in its entirety for the first time to a unique performance of The Messiah where you can actually join in the singing .
25 ( Short , happy , slightly humorous speech when the groom is marrying for the first time to a divorced woman . )
26 Initially he concentrated on Scotland , where the impact of railways had effectively opened the country for the first time to a large number of visitors .
27 In France the post of Secretary of State for War was given for the first time to a soldier ( the Maréchal de Belle-Isle ) in 1758 ; and in the second half of the century there was a slow but steady tendency for the most important officials concerned , the intendants d'armées and the contrôleurs des guerres , to be military men .
28 Even so I did not expect my feet to be trouble-free after using them for the first time on a full day 's hiking in the Purbeck Hills .
29 The formative period from 1850 to 1914 witnessed the birth of a clearly identifiable movement , with labour organising for the first time on a massive scale .
30 Not for the first time on a trip , the naturalist , writer and traveller Redmond O'Hanlon fantasized about waking between crisp , dry sheets .
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