Example sentences of "in [noun sg] for the first " in BNC.
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| 31 | Had I read enough French novels at the time , I would have known what to expect ; and of course it was here that I fell in love for the first time . |
| 32 | Despite the lines round her mouth and the flecks of grey in her hair , there was a bloom in her cheeks and her eyes shone like those of a girl who has fallen in love for the first time . |
| 33 | This Session will see the new House management committees introduced , and , following the report by Sir Robin Ibbs , in operation for the first time . |
| 34 | However , there is a range of content and styles from international research names to the local teacher round the corner in print for the first time , which continually enliven and interest the reader . |
| 35 | The Military Training Act of 1939 effectively introduced conscription in peacetime for the first time in Britain 's history . |
| 36 | By approving Bevin 's statement the conference committed itself to accepting National Service in peacetime for the first time ever . |
| 37 | He summarizes the kind of attitudes and assumptions towards religion which a majority of children when they arrive in school for the first time will be likely already to have assimilated . |
| 38 | In the strict or dictionary sense The Lord of the Rings evades that concept totally , for according to the OED ‘ defeatism ’ is a straight borrowing from French défaitisme , recorded in English for the first time in 1918 and meaning ‘ Conduct tending to bring about acceptance of defeat , esp . |
| 39 | Erm but the reality is that erm we would therefore need our budget to , in fact for the first half of this year , to have , well for the whole year , to have reflected the late delivery of the systems which would 've , if we 'd had that in the budget and we 'd been projecting the whole budget at say two point six , our budget figure would 've been somewhere in the region of another eighty to ninety thousand higher than it currently is for this first quarter . |
| 40 | Steve Young threw three touchdown passes , including two to Jerry Rice , while Joe Montana , back in uniform for the first time in two years , stayed on the sidelines after being listed as the 49ers ' third-choice quarterback . |
| 41 | We are rushing out this newsletter in time for the first summer festival , at Kings Heath Park . |
| 42 | Meanwhile , the latest issue of RISC Management claims that ‘ the multi-threaded SMP capabilities that are the core of Solaris 2.0 will not appear until the fourth calendar quarter — in time for the first multi-processor Sparcstation shipments , but a year behind schedule . ’ |
| 43 | Meanwhile , Apple is predicting that it will have at least 70% of Macintosh applications recoded in time for the first batch of volume PowerPCs to hit the streets in 1993 , using AT&T Bell Laboratories spin-off , the Holmdel , New Jersey-based Echo Logic Inc , to do the recompiling . |
| 44 | The speech came over the wires so late and the sheets were so confused by the Post Office — which is usual in these cases — that without the precis we could not possibly have got the leader through in time for the first edition . |
| 45 | Tambo arrived in time for the first consultative conference of the movement for 31 years , an event which provided an opportunity for the ANC to clarify its policy of negotiation with the government . |
| 46 | Lawrence was uncertain whether Bernie Slaven would recover from a knee injury in time for the first Manchester United cup-tie . |
| 47 | staff would arrive before 2.00pm in time for the first session . |
| 48 | But three minutes after the interval Leeds skipper Ellery Hanley took Schofield 's short pass to spin out of a tackle and go over for the try , goaled by Gallagher , which put Leeds in front for the first and only time in the game . |
| 49 | A break of 83 put him in front for the first time adding a 70 clearance in the sixth after Wattana led 58-0 . |
| 50 | He was only 21 when he answered the call : a young man from a comfortable background who only months earlier had taken an interest in politics for the first time . |