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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ] . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Consider using an outside potential purchaser for the first meeting as a trial run . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In the meantime , one might look for the first appearance of a new journal in March Educational Action Research . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The research by Yorkshire TV paid off last Sunday when 18 million tuned in for the first episode of A Touch of Frost . |
| 16 | He managed to stay off alcohol because for the first time for a very long time he was truly afraid . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ Father Tom , ’ he said , as if he were meeting Carey for the first time for a long time . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ( Short , happy , slightly humorous speech when the groom is marrying for the first time to a divorced woman . ) |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Not for the first time on a trip , the naturalist , writer and traveller Redmond O'Hanlon fantasized about waking between crisp , dry sheets . |
| 29 | People who hear themselves for the first time on a tape-recorder often find it hard to believe that the stranger talking is actually them . |
| 30 | One day , in Times Square , Dustin looked up and saw his face for the first time on a billboard . |