Example sentences of "for the first [noun] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will remove dead hair , and may also reveal signs of fleas. ( 2 ) A brush will be essential for the first stage in the process . |
| 2 | He was collecting for over forty years and , as Miller was a regular recipient of Bartram 's shipments , it can be assumed that ‘ a large proportion of plants credited to Miller as introducer consisted of collections by Bartram and if this is true he was probably responsible for the first appearance in the gardens of England of between one hundred and fifty and two hundred plants ’ ( John Hendley Barnhart , ‘ Significance of John Bartram 's Work to Botanical and Horticultural Knowledge ’ , Bartonia Special Issue , 1931 ) . |
| 3 | Enough money came in by mid-March for Chris , a Courtaulds worker for 18 years , and Lorraine to take Leannda to Boston for the first step in the long road to restoring her sight . |
| 4 | When Chris Lewis replaced Malcolm , ball dominated bat for the first time in the match , with nothing to show for it . |
| 5 | For the first time in the history of the service , army units have been sent in to maintain order in prisons , writes Sarah Lambert . |
| 6 | For the first time in the saga of occupation and exodus , the organisational skills of the Red Cross began to succumb yesterday to the sheer magnitude of the task facing it . |
| 7 | ALEXANDER MOGILNY , the Soviet forward who defected during the world championships in Stockholm , is among the Soviet contingent appearing in the NHL , which begins its 1989-90 season today , for the first time in the League 's 73-year history . |
| 8 | WELSH RUGBY was united for the first time in the last few stormy months when the 203 member clubs of the Welsh Rugby Union decided to sever playing links with South Africa last night . |
| 9 | The net costs of Eagle Lodges appear for the first time in the income and expenditure account and are largely attributable to setting up costs as there was little income from occupancy during 1990 . |
| 10 | In Zambia , the provision of hybrid maize seed , fertiliser and marketing services to small-scale farmers dated from the mid 1960s ; in Kenya the provision of such services was extended for the first time in the 1960s well beyond the Kikuyu . |
| 11 | Steve Jones will run for the first time in the Morpeth-Newcastle , Britain 's oldest road race , on New Year 's Day .. |
| 12 | Steve Jones will run for the first time in the Morpeth-Newcastle , Britain 's oldest road race , on New Year 's Day .. |
| 13 | Jenny Pitman 's Do Be Brief stepped onto a racecourse for the first time in the first division of the Christmas Pudding Novice Hurdle and made quite an impression in beating Sailor 's Luck , but not half as big as his stable-companion Egypt Mill , who looked something special in landing the second division by 10 lengths . |
| 14 | For the first time in the lives of many Romanians , they can ‘ shop around ’ . |
| 15 | That morning I met my father on the middle landing of the stairs , and we were alone together for the first time in the holidays . |
| 16 | For the first time in the contest since the initial attack , Jacob 's adversary seizes the initiative . |
| 17 | It showed a replay of Tammuz meeting Ari for the first time in the canteen . |
| 18 | I remember some years ago being called by a man who told me he had just now heard things for the first time in the Beethoven Fifth . |
| 19 | PRIME Ministerial blood was drawn for the first time in the election campaign yesterday when Mr Major was hit by an egg thrown from close range . |
| 20 | Fighting was reported for the first time in the east Bosnian towns of Visegrad and Foca , near the Serbian border . |
| 21 | This is primarily due to process integration — eg filtration and drying have been combined for the first time in the Pergascript operation . |
| 22 | They include the products of the spread of the reptiles back into the aqueous environment from which their distant ancestors emerged , and , for the first time in the history of the vertebrates , the conquest of the air . |
| 23 | Betty Rizzo observes that Philip Leapor voted for the first time in the 1749 election for Knight of the Shire , and judges from this that he had used the capital from the subscription to buy his freehold [ Rizzo ] . |
| 24 | Their most pressing concern was the seven-year-old Iran-Iraq war , and the Palestine question was pushed to the bottom of the list of priorities for the first time in the history of the Arab League . |
| 25 | Finally , we should note the healthy expansion in the number of women candidates — exceeding 25% for the first time in the metropolitan authorities . |
| 26 | They showed that subjects given verbal pre-training with one set of stimuli learn the appropriate motor response more rapidly to these stimuli than to a further set introduced for the first time in the test phase . |
| 27 | Now , for the first time in the long history of settling our islands , the guardians have become the destroyers . |
| 28 | For the first time in the affair , Joan broke down . |
| 29 | And for the first time in the twenty-year history of St Christopher 's , a priest laughed in the pulpit . |
| 30 | It can link HLCA payments ( including for the first time in the UK , for dairy cows ) to agreed stocking levels on a hectarage ( not headage ) basis . |