Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Great Powers thus pressed their territorial control outwards to encompass for the first time virtually the whole surface of the globe , to centralize the world on a few centres of power . |
| 2 | The environment working group of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) is finally to meet for the first time — 20 years after it was first constituted . |
| 3 | ‘ They are given a topic straight away to revise for the first exam — which is at 9am the following morning . |
| 4 | The 1900s were also to see for the first time deaf women beginning to acquire their own identity through achievement by their own talent although not one as yet played any prominent part in deaf organisations which remained the preserve of the deaf male . |
| 5 | Wales have yet to qualify for the first round of the NatWest Trophy , but looking at the results from this year 's competition , perhaps they were well out of it . |