Example sentences of "[noun] and for the first " in BNC.
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| 31 | Death duties were increased on estates of over £5,000 and for the first time , and an especial cause of the controversy with the Lords , taxes were levied on land : 20 per cent of the unearned increment on land values , levied on sales of land . |
| 32 | For many years , both in the days of glassfibre and for the first few years of plastic , there was little variety in the shape of boats in general recreational use . |
| 33 | Mrs Chamorro declined to give interviews while in Washington but in an article published this week , she wrote : ‘ Ten years of living dangerously has brought civil war , an exodus of a fifth of our countrymen , an annual inflation of 30,000 per cent , 40 per cent unemployment and for the first time in our history , mass hunger . |
| 34 | Now , while as if bestowing some order of merit she fastened the beads round my neck , her face wore a motherly expression and for the first time I was with the Aunt Louise of my childhood . |
| 35 | The Ministry of Social Security Act 1966 created the Supplementary Benefits Commission ( SBC ) to administer the supplementary benefit scheme and for the first time those whose resources did not meet their requirements had a legal entitlement to the payment of benefit . |
| 36 | Also on Jan. 8 at the weekly Monday demonstration in Leipzig protesters chanted anti-SED slogans and for the first time called for the resignation of both Modrow and Gregor Gysi ( who had replaced Egon Krenz as SED leader in December — see p. 37108 ) . |
| 37 | Now he drew himself upwards and stepped back from her , and it seemed to give her space to breathe , for she drew air into her lungs and for the first time she spoke , almost whimpering now : ‘ I … |
| 38 | It was made easier for companies to set up their own schemes and for the first time everyone would be given the right of a personal pension of their own . |
| 39 | It was , however , his permanent design of the deceptively simple 1920 Whitehall Cenotaph ( originally erected in wood and plaster as a saluting point for the Victory March Past of Allied troops in July 1919 ) that put him in the eye of the general public and for the first time turned Lutyens into a household name . |
| 40 | There is an objectivity behind the subjectivity of our preferences which entitles you to recommend to me a dish which you do not choose yourself and which I have hitherto been repelled by , but may come to like if I can forget my prejudices and for the first time attend closely to the flavour . |
| 41 | Many of the hotels in this brochure do continue to provide waiter serve , although some of these will have buffet for breakfast and for the first course of main meals . |
| 42 | A frisson of fear scorched down Robyn 's spine and for the first time she recognised the potential danger of her situation . |
| 43 | Since the beginning of the year new shops have opened up in central Belfast and for the first time some are doing well selling avant-garde men 's and women 's clothes . |
| 44 | Naggaroth 's dark master had perfected his evil arts over long millennia and for the first time Teclis met a foe that was his match . |
| 45 | In the whole history of a people its holiest moment is when it awakens from its unconsciousness and for the first time thinks of its old holy rights . |
| 46 | Now those other products are finally in production and for the first time Excel is going to be judged upon its merits rather than its laurels . |
| 47 | My mind was n't on my driving and for the first time I almost collided with another taxi . |
| 48 | While her unpleasant husband shut himself in his room and wrote letters , she explored the island with Paul Masson and for the first time in her life ‘ tasted and touched the salt , the sand , the seaweed , the odorous soft bed of the receding sea , the dripping fish ’ . |
| 49 | At the end of all this I had lost about two stones and for the first time in my life , felt very nervy . |
| 50 | Bloody clouds of flies and biting things and humming whatsits and for the first couple of weeks you think how extraordinary , well it does n't matter getting bitten , everyone else is , except Matt with his NASA US-Govt issue personal mosquito repellent and corned-beef face-protector . |
| 51 | The wife obligingly lifted her arm and for the first time there was a flash of something pale , as if to show that there really was flesh and blood beneath the shapeless black garment . |