Example sentences of "[prep] the first ever [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Twenty-six racial equality officers came to the university to enrol in classes for the first ever diploma in race and community relations .
2 20 miles of cable will provide 1 000 000 watts of light and 24 kilowatts of sound … for the first ever Wiltshire Festival at Lydiard Park in Swindon .
3 Mia Bardolet , who was responsible for the first ever victory of Ford 's Escort Cosworth , found himself without a contract this year and Opel snapped him up .
4 To this end he reintroduced a school of industrial design , sacked the Professor of Painting , Gilbert Spencer , who had advised students not to visit the 1945–6 Picasso and Matisse exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum , appointed the former fashion editor of Vogue , Madge Garland , as the first ever Professor of Fashion and invited Allan Walton , who died before he could take up the post , to head the textile department .
5 Two weeks after the first ever pictures were snatched from Bugatti 's promotional video by Autocar & Motor 's Italian editor Luca Ciferri ( 3 October ) , the first photographs of the car in the flesh have appeared .
6 June 1993 saw a new Wimpey landmark with the announcement of the first ever rights issue in the Group 's history .
7 By 1974 — year of the first ever World Population Conference in Bucharest — there were roughly three population camps .
8 The six will give their views as part of the first ever children 's museum of the year competition .
9 MP Jim Wallace made his appeal for such an inquiry on the floor of the House of Commons ; and when the topic was brought up at the Scottish Liberal Democrats Conference , he was supported by Judy Steel , wife of the former leader of the Liberal Party , and herself one of the first ever Reporters to a Children 's Panel when the system began in 1971 .
10 NORTHERN Ireland showjumpers have a busy month ahead with many dates on the calendar including the first ever Cavan Indoor Championships , organised by Pauline and Mervyn Clarke .
11 In the first ever referendum of its kind , voters in Amsterdam have supported a proposal to ban cars from the city centre .
12 In the first ever issue of Practical Fishkeeping , December 1978 , we listed the top 25 community fish .
13 It was the turn of ‘ The Workers ' Party ’ from Dublin to capture the headlines in Belfast on 27th February last in the first ever IBOA National 10-Pin Bowling Tournament .
14 Tony Cozier reports from Barbados on the first ever Test match between West Indies and South Africa .
15 When Lady Maud Hoare flew from Britain to India in 1926 on the first ever flight from Croydon to Delhi she had to reduce the amount of luggage with which she usually travelled quite drastically .
16 hello there … today we 've come east to the far east for our Central South sport … we 're in Nepal with some local pioneers who are setting off on the first ever Kathmandu marathon … before we run we have join our football parade …
17 This Government has embarked on the first ever strategy for health .
18 At least that is one message 1500 of them gape at the first ever BAYSDAY , held earlier this month at various institutions in London 's museum heartland .
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