Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] for the first " in BNC.

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1 The guidance will bring together for the first time all the relevant existing guidance into one statement and has already been the subject of previous consultation in a green paper .
2 The problem is not to find an alternative to a system that once worked well but no longer does ; the problem is to make it work efficiently for the first time in its 3,000-year history .
3 ‘ Brian Gayle did n't defend well for the first goal and Gage did a Val Parnell act in the middle of the park to set up the lad for his second . ’
4 The internal Labour pressure group that will meet officially for the first time in Stirling aims to unite and organise women from both wings of the party as well as from the constituencies and trades unions .
5 It might go well for the first three or four months , and then all of a sudden we might have a lapse in a few months ,
6 It should prove so for the first killer as well .
7 POMEROY social security office in Tyrone will not open today for the first scheduled signing-on since the IRA attack on a fraud squad investigator a fortnight ago .
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