Example sentences of "of [noun pl] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of birds for the first time ever heard , |
| 2 | The voluntary scheme has the backing of the government , which is providing £13 million of funds for the first three years . |
| 3 | and at the end of the national hunt racing season … celebrations for Gloucestershire 's top stables … trainer David Nicholson reached a century of winners for the first time and champion jockey Richard Dunwoody finished with 173 … a record year for them both |
| 4 | The panel of judges for the first award included Eleanor Bron , the actress and writer ; Penelope Lively , the novelist and a past winner of the Booker Prize ; and John Mortimer , QC , the novelist and playwright and chairman of the Royal Society of Literature . |
| 5 | She also looked great — out of dungarees for the first time and into a becomingly simple black dress . |
| 6 | There was a certain rapprochement though , as Mary came down with her things in the back-pack Rufus had lent her and wearing jeans and a pair of sandals for the first time for days . |
| 7 | The seminars , which will be held in Dundee and Glasgow , will focus on the second phase of general SVQs , though they may also include workshops for centres wanting to pilot the first batch of awards for the first time . |
| 8 | The facts behind the selection of poems for the first volume may prove elusive . |
| 9 | He was appointed to the state 's Superior Court in 1978 , to its Supreme Court in 1983 , and to the federal Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in 1990 . |
| 10 | In the UK , statutory maternity pay is 90 per cent of earnings for the first six weeks of maternity leave and then a lower rate of £39.25 for a further 12 weeks . |
| 11 | Their most pressing concern was the seven-year-old Iran-Iraq war , and the Palestine question was pushed to the bottom of the list of priorities for the first time in the history of the Arab League . |
| 12 | She sobs loudly in his arms , relieved of the company of strangers for the first time . |
| 13 | Under the Government 's fund-holding initiative , doctors have control over their own spending on behalf of patients for the first time . |
| 14 | The colonisation of new land , and its demarcation into private estates , created thousands of miles of boundaries for the first time . |
| 15 | He was able to provide information on age , sex , and growth of whales for the first time without killing , touching , marking , or molesting a single animal . |
| 16 | The Reform Act of 1832 laid the foundations of electoral democracy by tidying up the system — for instance , getting rid of ‘ rotten boroughs ’ , small or almost non-existent places that could return MPs — and setting up a register of voters for the first time . |
| 17 | On his return from Baghdad on Jan. 14 Pérez de Cuéllar consulted in Paris with Jacques Poos , the Luxembourg Foreign Minister and President of the EC Council of Ministers for the first half of 1991 . |
| 18 | The Luxembourg government , which held the presidency of the Council of Ministers for the first half of 1991 , presented a redrafted draft union treaty on June 20 . |
| 19 | Austria , which chaired the European Free Trade Area ( EFTA ) Council of Ministers for the first half of 1991 , continued to press for agreement with the EC on a common European economic area ( EEA ) [ see pp. 38353 ; 38307 ] , which Economic Affairs Minister Schüssel described in January 1991 as " an important interim step … along the path to full [ EC ] membership " . |
| 20 | The Commission had pressed for a 35 per cent reduction , while the latest compromise proposal by the Portuguese government ( which held the presidency of the EC Council of Ministers for the first half of 1992 ) argued for a reduction of 27 per cent . |
| 21 | From him , I heard of leys for the first time , and learned that he had found alignments of tree clumps in the countryside around his home . |
| 22 | As Nell followed , the rows of screens for the first time were blank , showing no signs of life . |
| 23 | He felt like an infant staggering uncertainly out of doors for the first time into the infinitude of the universe . |
| 24 | By Tuesday , he was able to venture out of doors for the first time since arriving home , late and ailing , on Thursday night . |