Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The offence is in outline very similar to the pre-existing offence under the Public Order Act 1936 , section 5A , although it adds ‘ behaviour ’ to the list of proscribed activities for the first time . |
| 2 | That was the cost of borrowing £5,000 over 180 months for the first year ; after that it was £100.77 a month . |
| 3 | Although there was no official statement concerning the content of the agenda , it was widely believed that the two sides would begin detailed discussions for the first time since the negotiations began in July 1990 . |
| 4 | Large areas of western Scotland , mid- and North Wales and the upland zones of the North and South West of England have exhibited population gains , in some cases for the first time in over a century . |
| 5 | In the event of trouble , many of the non-union operators now would have easier access — in some cases for the first time — to the political system and its protective police arm . |
| 6 | Along with the island 's hydro-electric scheme — bringing power to some houses for the first time — and the harbour improvements , the incident will probably go down in Shetland annals as another stage in Foula 's modernisation . |
| 7 | They were driving into the city now , and she looked around her , seeing it with different eyes for the first time , seeing it as a garrulous old lady with so much to tell to anyone willing to listen . |
| 8 | We acclimatise with shorter trips for the first few days , then split for free sailing , meeting up for a couple of days to brief for another long session of free sailing . |
| 9 | Hezbollah announced 12 candidates for the first two rounds , eight of them in Baalbek , three elsewhere in the Bekaa , and one in Beirut . |
| 10 | The Norwegian whaling fleet has already set sail to study stock sizes and to establish how many fish minke whales eat , and in May will begin commercial catches for the first time since 1987 . |
| 11 | And the Protestants ' only hope of redressing the imbalance of power created by the French lay in turning to the English , even though they well knew that protestations of Anglo-Scottish friendship and desire for union in no way wiped out the instinctive hostility between Scots and English which ran so deep that half a century later it would still cause grievous problems for the first king of Britain . |
| 12 | A few suggestions for the first line : |
| 13 | So when [ named defendant ] , 41 , made sexual overtures for the first time during their five-year friendship she went to a neighbour and cried rape . |
| 14 | 22 Cadenzas for the first and second movements of the C major keyboard concerto , K.246 1b & 2b . |
| 15 | TONIGHT David Hockney , as set designer , will be accompanied by some 30 friends for the first night of the Royal Opera House 's new production of Richard Strauss 's Die Frau ohne Schatten ( The Woman Without Shadow ) , directed by John Cox and conducted by Bernard Haitinck . |
| 16 | The thrill of crossing the Knucklas viaduct with its castellated ends , some members for the first time . |
| 17 | She talked with him for nearly ten minutes , and as the officers drew her away , Walford snatched her hand and kissed it , ‘ some tears for the first time rolling down his cheeks ’ . |
| 18 | After both B and C Company put in similar performances the Cup was firmly in British hands for the first time . |
| 19 | On April 25 , 1990 , the three Western allies announced that they had agreed to allow West Berliners to vote in West German elections for the first time since 1949 ( hitherto the West Berlin city legislature had sent 22 non-voting delegates to the Bundestag and had similar status within the Bundesrat ) . |
| 20 | Tickets for the whole event are on sale , price £10.00 , from the box-office of the Empire Leicester Square , and we have pairs of free tickets for the first five readers to arrive at the cinema on Sunday morning bearing a copy of The Independent . |
| 21 | A small company , perhaps exploring foreign markets for the first time , will have requirements different from those of larger institutions which may already be tried and tested in the international arena . |
| 22 | The recruitment of colonial troops , mainly by the French who hoped by this means to offset the demographic superiority of the Germans ( a subject anxiously discussed in the 1860s ) , brought some others for the first time into a European environment . |
| 23 | Afterwards to wear clerical clothes for the first time , and instantly to be expected to be a confidant or soul 's friend , was to many ordinands the more heartfelt turning-point . |
| 24 | French short-term interest rates fell below German ones for the first time since 1991 . |
| 25 | The bibliographer Lowndes , over a hundred years ago , categorically listed eight different title-pages for the first edition of Milton 's Paradise Lost , pointing out such differences as large or small italic capitals for the poet 's name ; in one case the use of his initials only-groups of stars between words , or none ; with or without fleur-de-lis ornaments , etc . |
| 26 | It 's task is to run the clearing house for monetary transactions being wired in and out of the country , and will provide on-line facilities for the first time , as well as better monitoring and tracking facilities . |
| 27 | Often , however , an attack of non-specific urethritis can be followed by months , if not years , of needless worry and anxiety , simply because , following the mind 's focusing on the genitalia , the patient has noticed certain characteristics of his sexual organs for the first time , and normality has become abnormality . |
| 28 | THE receiver handling the sale of Birmingham City has had 22 inquiries for the First Division club after it was formally put up for sale earlier this week . |
| 29 | This took western European visits for the first eight months of this year to 4.82m , another record . |
| 30 | Inspections were carried out by outside groups for the first time , and changes , such as putting windows into dark cells , took place . |