Example sentences of "for the first [noun sg] on [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The £1m Celtic player was in the near full-house crowd for the first leg on Wednesday night . |
| 2 | Adrian Whitbread says the players have made him feel very welcome and he has settled in well … although he was a bit nervous for the first game on Saturday … he says Town are a good team and he 's looking forward to playing for them also on parade for pictures today … |
| 3 | Details of the membership of the new " Provisional Free Kuwait Government " ( PFKG ) were released for the first time on Aug. 4 . |
| 4 | Against the background of a broad spectrum of strikes organized on April 21 , April 27 and June 2 , 1989 , by the socialist General Workers ' Union ( Unión General de Trabajadores — UGT ) and the communist Workers ' Commissions ( Comisiones Obreras — CCOO ) , the UGT executive decided for the first time on April 25 to give no recommendation to its members to vote for the PSOE in the European Parliament elections in June 1989 , on the grounds that a trade union could not be expected to support a government which pursued economic and social policies which were hostile to workers . |
| 5 | Markovic for the first time on Sept. 19 accused Defence Minister Kadijevic and his deputy , Adml. |
| 6 | When the new Assembly met for the first time on Sept. 24 , seven opposition members refused to take their seats , claiming that the election had been rigged . |
| 7 | Central News South first took to the air for the first time on January 9th 1989 . |
| 8 | America 's four-jet airliner flew for the first time on July 15 , 1954 and immediately revolutionised the world of mass air travel . |
| 9 | The existence of rumours of a conservative-reformist struggle received official acknowledgement for the first time on July 6 when the official -People 's Daily stated that they were being spread about by unnamed people " more poisonous than poisonous snakes " . |
| 10 | They met for the first time on May 13th 1794 , a date which had been specified in the statute . |
| 11 | Hungary 's Országgyülés ( National Assembly ) , elected in March and April [ see pp. 37325-26 ; 37380 ] , met for the first time on May 2-3 . |
| 12 | The Chief of Staff of the Air Force , Vice-Marshal Momtazuddin Ahmed , confirmed publicly for the first time on May 10 the claim made eight days earlier by the head of the opposition Awami League Sheikh Hasina Wajed that there had been extensive damage to the country 's small fleet of aircraft . |
| 13 | President George Bush , responding formally for the first time on May 3 to a growing controversy , rejected as " sickening " the allegation that he had participated in a secret Paris meeting with Iranian officials in 1980 in order to reap electoral advantage by delaying the release of 52 US hostages held in Iran . |
| 14 | Western Samoa 's new Fono ( unicameral legislature ) assembled for the first time on May 7 , following the country 's first general election under universal suffrage on April 5 . |
| 15 | Foxhall Stadium opens its doors for the first time on Sunday ( 2.30 pm ) with the Bangers and new formula stock cars . |
| 16 | BRITAIN 'S newest narrow gauge railway opens its doors to the public for the first time on Sunday . |
| 17 | SANTA SPECIALS which are a great source of revenue for many railway societies throughout the British Isles arrived in Dublin for the first time on Sunday , December 6th . |
| 18 | The movie , starring Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds , is released on video for the first time on September 21 — with the original preview trailer and a deleted sequence of Reynolds singing You Are My Lucky Star . |
| 19 | In the final game Waikato took the honours 28–24 , leafing Rugby Canada to wonder just how long it would be before they won for the first time on New Zealand soil . |
| 20 | The joint ministerial committee with Ethiopia , formed as a result of an agreement between the two countries in April 1988 to improve bilateral relations [ see p. 36006 ] , met for the first time on Dec. 4-7 , 1989 , in Mogadishu . |
| 21 | ANC president Nelson Mandela indicated for the first time on Dec. 29 that the ANC would consider the possibility of guaranteeing white seats in a future parliament along the lines agreed under the 1979 Lancaster House settlement on Zimbabwean independence [ see pp. 30165-75 ] . |
| 22 | Troops were deployed in the province for the first time on Feb. 1 , and on Feb. 2 the government used low-flying jets over Pristina in a show of force ; at this time no military action had been taken against the demonstrators . |
| 23 | The old flag was raised over the Supreme Soviet building in Riga for the first time on Feb. 27 . |
| 24 | A general election under proportional representation was held for the first time on Feb. 15 , 1989 , the UNP winning a comfortable 25-seat majority [ see pp. 36467-68 ] . |
| 25 | Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir , in January [ see p. 38710 ] was formed on Feb. 13 under the chairmanship of Col. Mohammed al-Amin Khalifah ; it met for the first time on Feb. 24 in the building which formerly housed the National Assembly — the elected parliament overthrown by Bashir in June 1989 [ see p. 36728 ] . |
| 26 | Bell 's chief test pilot , Bob Stanley , took the first prototype XP-63 Kingcobra , 41–19511 , into the air for the first time on December 7 , 1942 , from Buffalo , New York . |
| 27 | Only seven positions will be lost in the UK , and the 235-strong Bristol-based operation says it 'll break out its year-end figures from overall Dun & Bradstreet Software numbers for the first time on December 11 . |
| 28 | The five CODESA working groups met for the first time on Jan. 20 in Johannesburg . |
| 29 | Israel and China established formal diplomatic relations for the first time on Jan. 24 . |
| 30 | Guerrillas in Kashmir used rockets for the first time on June 19 , in an attack on two waterfront hotels in Srinagar which were being used as barracks by Indian security forces . |