Example sentences of "[noun] and for the first " in BNC.

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1 This year BMW will make about 580,000 cars and for the first time outstrip Mercedes .
2 Lipson and colleagues subsequently report ( May 22 , p 1352 ) from Australia a girl born with multiple congenital defects to a mother , who before conception and for the first 5 weeks of gestation , had used a topical liquid preparation of 0.05% tretinoin in 45% alcohol .
3 Digital Equipment Corp has announced that it will offer a new hub backplane , code-named One Hub , in early 1993 , plugging the gap at the high end of the DEChub 90 range and for the first time offering Ethernet , Token Ring , and the Fibre Distributed Data Interface , FDDI , at first , and Asynchronous Transfer Mode high-speed networking technology , when it becomes available , in one product .
4 It is a language that needs a large memory capacity and for the first time there were machines available to use it .
5 I think it 's possibly the thirteenth consecutive year I 've been on the committee and for the first time I 've managed to be elected .
6 The couple begin to lead separate lives and for the first time there is public concern over the marriage .
7 There had still been nothing of that kind from John 's kidnappers and for the first time I began to have serious doubts about whether he was alive ; I began to feel less sure of it deep inside , where it mattered .
8 The track took a right hand curve and for the first time he saw the bridge standing high above the track .
9 But much wider issues than the construction of the Finance Act 1976 have been raised in these appeals and for the first time this House has been asked to consider a detailed argument upon the extent to which reference can properly be made before a court of law in the United Kingdom to proceedings in Parliament recorded in Hansard .
10 They left Kabrit on 20 November and for the first stage of the journey were able to bowl down the coast road as far as Agedabia , by then firmly in British hands .
11 Fama and MacBeth also found that the intercept ( ) was significantly different from the risk free rate for the entire period and for the first of the sub-periods , which tends to lend support to the zero-beta version of the CAPM rather than the risk-free rate variant .
12 He made no announcement until 19 October , and perhaps did not even close his own mind until no more than a week earlier , but on 3 October , the same day that the Italian attack was eventually launched , he went to Bournemouth and for the first time in seven years addressed the Conservative Party Conference .
13 ‘ I have been in the game as player , coach and manager for 30 years and for the first time in the last three months I can feel the adrenalin starting to flow again , ’ said Totten .
14 This did recommend involvement of the voluntary sector on joint liaison committees and for the first time give access for voluntary agencies to make direct application to health boards without having to seek prior sponsorship from the local authority .
15 Nora Fanshawe raised her head and for the first time he saw her smile , an ugly harsh smile of self-mockery .
16 She accepted a glass of water and for the first time looked round in order to take in the room and the people before her .
17 It reminded her painfully of Jordan and for the first time she thought about how she was never going to touch him again .
18 He met the descendants of Lascar seamen or other immigrants who settled into Liverpool and for the first time saw the need for justice to an immigrant community .
19 The situation did n't improve much during the rest of the week and for the first time since Rachel had been working at OBEX she found herself not looking forward to going to work in the mornings .
20 Le Monde reported on April 26 that the government had decided to reverse previous government policy and for the first time to pay 6,200,000 marks to an Israeli foundation for holocaust survivors .
21 The experience shattered Derek and for the first time he told his wife and parents the story of his harassments from the first meeting with the drug detective .
22 Immediately , therefore , I was involved in the gay movement and for the first time in my life in a couple relationship .
23 The second norwegian half was bloody excellent from Norway and for the first time a norwegian team wins a away in eastern Europe .
24 Sinead 's father John saw the progressive school in Waterford as a last chance for his wayward daughter and for the first time in her life she came across a school where she had nothing to rebel against .
25 The NILP was represented by a strong contingent which carried the party banner and for the first time Ivan Cooper took a prominent part in the proceedings .
26 Soon the mousy man became exhausted by struggling with the suitcase and for the first time the Feldwebel carried it for him .
27 Of those , the Trooper 's got the edge and for the first time leads its own sub-section of 4 × 4 off-roaders .
28 The play features actors Catherine Aran , Maldwyn John , Merfyn Jones and for the first time with Bara Caws , Manon Prysor .
29 This commenced with the Year eight pupils and for the first time in 1991 , we will be presenting all our school leavers with a RAE which again we feel will be of a high quality .
30 Sung , following her , held out his hand and for the first time she let him help her , gripping his hand with a force that took his breath , her fingers tightening convulsively with every little jolt she received .
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