Example sentences of "[prep] britain [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the Roman occupation of Britain between the first and fourth centuries , there is evidence of greater variety in cattle sizes ranging from the small Iron Age types to some much larger and more hefty stock . |
| 2 | These potatoes are round and white , a new Dutch strain , being grown in Britain for the first time this year . |
| 3 | Genzyme announced last week that Ceredase , its drug for Gaucher disease , is being used in Britain for the first time in 10 patients seriously ill with the rare and potentially fatal inherited disease . |
| 4 | Michael Roberts rode six winners in a day in Britain for the first time on Saturday . |
| 5 | The M6 crosses on the Thornbridge Viaduct , a viaduct which has been extensively repaired last year using a very powerful water lance to cut out deteriorated concrete , a German tool being used in Britain for the first time . |
| 6 | The 1851 census revealed that in Britain for the first time more people lived in towns than in the country and that trend continued . |
| 7 | The emergence at this time of Freudian psychology , an important element in the international growth of this infant discipline in this period , offered one opposing perspective but was of insignificant influence in Britain before the First World War . |
| 8 | That I am living in Britain in the first place has everything to do with the fact that I came here to start the magazine you are reading , a magazine for men . |
| 9 | Figure 3.12 The spread of the habit , in tits , of opening milk bottle tops in Britain from the first record in 1921 near Southampton until 1947 . |
| 10 | But what is it like to face Immigration Officers when you come to Britain for the first time , not knowing the language , uncertain about the future ? |
| 11 | ‘ There was nothing confidential about it : it was a bright idea some Americans had for setting up training courses — that sort of thing — for their businessmen and other people coming over to Britain for the first time . |
| 12 | American B-Fifty Two bombers have returned to Britain for the first time since the Gulf War . |
| 13 | Celtic 's defeat of Inter Milan in nineteen sixty seven brought the European cup to Britain for the first time . |
| 14 | For the next eighty years the argument that a tunnel under the silver streak of the Channel would pose a major security problem held sway , although a tunnel would have been of great advantage to Britain during the First World War . |
| 15 | After all , Changez was needed in the shop even more urgently now that Anwar had so enfeebled himself on the Gandhi-diet in order to get Changez to Britain in the first place . |
| 16 | TOUGH Belfast-style stop and search tactics are to be used across Britain for the first time to combat IRA bombers . |
| 17 | Yet Israel occupies less than a quarter of the mandatory territory controlled by Britain after the first world war . |