Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The power of traditional chiefs was curbed and for the first time women and young people were drawn into the political process . |
| 2 | Someone who , through years of toil among parish registers , discerns and for the first time explains the minutiae of demographic change in a northern mill town , is clearly doing that sort of thing . |
| 3 | On the first day of the blizzard 30 of my sheep got buried and on the first night my kennel runs were covered with six feet of snow , making it difficult , if not impossible , to get the dogs out . |
| 4 | But one winter she got flu , her work was sapped and for the first time the critics were unkind . |
| 5 | ‘ Then the play opened and on the first Friday it looked set to be the day . |
| 6 | Steam sprinklers were introduced and on the first day of their operation , they successfully doused another fire that would have probably removed the remainder of the factory had it taken hold . |
| 7 | The marquis 's voice had softened and for the first time Topaz gave him a wide smile . |
| 8 | After 1839 the number of staff gradually increased but for the first 20 years the work was confined to southern Britain , limited by the availability of Ordnance Survey maps . |
| 9 | Now the situation is changing and for the first time two excellent books have appeared on pain in children . |
| 10 | So Lauda won and for the first time he led the championship : 48 to 45.5 for Prost . |
| 11 | For a word like ‘ button ’ , or ‘ bottle ’ , it would be necessary to add and to the first post-final set ; the argument would be extended to include the in ‘ Hungary ’ . |
| 12 | The work was not taxing and for the first time in his life he had flexible free hours . |
| 13 | Provision is made for the election of members of a new divisional board , either at the meeting at which it was determined that a new division should be established or at the first meeting thereafter . |
| 14 | Provision is made for the election of members of a new divisional board , either at the meeting at which it was determined that a new division should be established or at the first meeting thereafter . |
| 15 | Dunlop refused and for the first time revealed that he considered himself to be the sole owner of the horse . |