Example sentences of "[art] first [noun sg] during " in BNC.
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1 | The social and drug-using characteristics of known opioid users in the second prevalence survey were , by and large , similar to those found in the first survey during 1984–5 . |
2 | Thereafter , Franco began to make a rhetorical distinction between the war against the United Kingdom and the United States , in which Spain took no part , and the war against the Soviet Union , which , in Franco 's view , was a new crusade against communism , of which Nationalist Spain had already fought the first battle during her Civil War . |
3 | The Leeds midfielder Gary McAllister missed a penalty later in the first half during a frustrating spell for Scotland . |
4 | This month , for the first time during the year , more boat people left than arrived in Hong Kong . |
5 | It was the first time during the Third Reich that a Führer speech had provoked such direct criticism in the reportage of upper civil servants . |
6 | These had gradually developed in the preceding ten years , and were displayed on British streets on a consistent basis for the first time during this dispute . |
7 | In 1957 , for the first time during a Presidential visit to the Circuit , the President ( the Reverend S E McCaffrey ) preached at an evening service in Edenderry . |
8 | For the first time during the interview Arlene smiled faintly . |
9 | Barlow , who helped Freed State win the Nissan Shield for the first time during the past season , has taken up his appointment in time to lead Transvaal in partnership with captain Jimmy Cook on the short tour of England in July . |
10 | His aim was to boost flagging sales , and for the first time during the recession new cars came within the grasp of those who still had some cash . |
11 | A specially commissioned painting by railway artist Simon Bowditch will be unveiled for the first time during the day , and limited edition copies given to local dignitaries . |
12 | So when [ named defendant ] , 41 , made sexual overtures for the first time during their five-year friendship she went to a neighbour and cried rape . |
13 | Those adults in a population of 444971 who developed severe acute renal failure ( serum creatinine concentration >500µmol/l ) for the first time during a two year period , with subsequent fall of the serum creatinine concentration below the index value . |
14 | The foundations of the colonial era , during which white European nations dominated vast areas of Asia , Africa and Latin America , were fatally undermined for the first time during the turbulent second decade of the twentieth century . |
15 | She experiences this unbelievable elation for the first time during a discussion of phonetic laws with Professor Jarvis-Andersen . |
16 | In April 1983 , however , the main features of a draft agreement on a comprehensive settlement of the Afghan question were worked out for the first time during the United Nations-sponsored talks in Geneva . |
17 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend accept the good news , contrary to what was said by the hon. Member for Ashfield ( Mr. Haynes ) , that although in recent times my constituency has experienced economic difficulties , so successful has my right hon. and learned Friend 's training and enterprise programme been that the Crawley and District Industries Association has told me that this is the first time during a downturn in the economy when training by companies has increased rather than decreased ? |
18 | The Democratic majority did , however , succeed in overturning a veto for the first time during the four-year presidency of George Bush . |
19 | For the first time during Morse 's analysis , his audience was seen reluctantly to smile as it acknowledged the primacy of the perpetually belly-aching little lady from California . |
20 | For the first time during final assembly , individual workshops prepare sub-assemblies for one aspect of the car , i.e. driving position , engine and chassis , glazing , seats , bumpers etc . |
21 | For the first time during the meal he looked directly at her . |
22 | Yesterday 's match-winning pair up front , Aberdeen 's Booth and Dundee United 's Duncan Ferguson , were lining up together for the first time during the current campaign . |
23 | The first study during the period covered by this study was conducted in 1952 by the Government Social Survey for the Royal Commission on Taxation . |
24 | I conducted the First Symphony during the war but the first two symphonies have always been for me a little to close to Tchaikovsky . |
25 | But perhaps quite not so funny was why Stewart was fielding on the deep square-leg boundary in the first place during England 's three-wicket defeat . |
26 | The median delay before a first appointment during 1992 was nine weeks in the five clinics based in district general hospitals ( interquartile range 6–13 weeks ) and three months in the five clinics based in teaching hospitals ( interquartile range 7–18 weeks ) . |