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

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1 Consider using an outside potential purchaser for the first meeting as a trial run .
2 ‘ Refreshing , ’ she euphemistically called the British climate she was about to face for the first time as a ‘ star ’ .
3 As Doohan built up a lead of almost seven seconds , Rainey settled for second place on his Yamaha , 12 seconds clear of third-placed Daryl Beattie , of Australia , riding a Rothmans Honda for the first time as a replacement for the injured Wayne Gardner .
4 In Britain , David Lloyd George was succeeded as Prime Minister by Mr A. Bonar-Law , who headed a Conservative Government with the Labour Party for the first time as a formidable opposition .
5 I remember the excitement and relief I felt when I read it for the first time as a very young nun .
6 He was still staring at himself in the mirror , seeing himself for the first time as a man , not a boy .
7 Nor , she was sure , Bert , whom she had seen yesterday for the first time as a potentially responsible comrade .
8 The book is published now for the first time as a result of scholarly study by Steve Joshua Heims of the cybernetics group of the late 1940s .
9 It was therefore at the next Congress in August 1959 in Wiesbaden , Germany , that the BDDA participated for the first time as a member country with an official delegation of ten : Dr Eric Greenaway .
10 But most of all , they have the determination to put their name on the trophy for the first time as a tribute to club president George Blower who tragically died at the end of a league game almost four weeks ago .
11 In 1944 , under the impetus of a wave of strikes in the mines , the British Trotskyist movement was united for the first time as the Revolutionary Communist Party , anticipating the imminent collapse of capitalism in the West and Stalinism in Russia .
12 Germany outstripped Britain for the first time as the largest contributor last year .
13 Thus competition is singled out for the first time as the chosen mechanism for ensuring the public interest .
14 Group sales exceeded £10 billion for the first time as the Group served over ten million customers each week .
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