Example sentences of "for the first [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The single-sex environment of mid-nineteenth-century US women 's colleges seems to have provided a uniquely supportive environment for the first women psychologists , for example ( Furumoto and Scarsborough 1986 ) . |
| 2 | The choice of language affects selection , integration and choice of curriculum content throughout the primary cycle , and is of dominant importance in planning for the first school years . |
| 3 | The loser should remain liable for the first instance costs , which would have been incurred in any event . |
| 4 | The Metropolitan Borough of Wigan has been sufficiently impressed with the results so far to finance the printing of enough copies for the first year pupils of three comprehensive schools beginning in September 1985 . |
| 5 | Firstly , the proportion of teachers who , having successfully completed the first year , stay on into the second in order to obtain the Certificate in Education ( FE ) is proving to be extremely high : for example , of the 1,128 candidates for the first year courses being offered in 1979–80 , no fewer than 1,024 moved into their second year in 1980–1 . |
| 6 | The Box Office lady at the Tivoli theatre adjusted the hair she had so carefully twisted into two buns over her ears , pushed her glasses up her nose , and opened her cash-box , ready for the first night crowds . |
| 7 | Merseyside duo Jamie Cassidy ( Liverpool ) and David Thompson ( Wirral ) have been picked for the first England boys under 15s national trial at the Lilleshall Sports Centre next weekend . |
| 8 | That would leave the afternoon free for the first walk-around rehearsals where the Director would begin working out his cast , camera and microphone boom movements . |
| 9 | If his average for the first X tests is one greater than the average Sorry beg your pardon I 've got it round me round me neck . |
| 10 | The plan is that none of these people will be able to purchase any of the seven thousand tickets available to England for the first round matches . |
| 11 | An initiation for prisoners had been established where for the first week officers were encouraged to violently beat and humiliate the new prisoner in nauseous ways . |
| 12 | as if to illustrate his point , the early volunteers on site for the first passenger services of the year on Saturday , April 11 , were the ladies . |
| 13 | In other words , the extra cost — the entry level price for the first CD-I players will probably be between £500 and £600 — may be seen as an acceptable premium on a CD-A player which buys , in addition , a multimedia information system . |
| 14 | For the first time companies seem willing to bend a bit , maybe even give up a cherished shibboleth or two . |
| 15 | In this study we aimed to record for the first time patterns of UOS motility associated with occurrence of GOR in children referred for evaluation of suspected disorders of oesophageal motility including pathological gastro-oesophageal reflux . |
| 16 | For the first time boys received more pocket money than girls 10p extra on average a week and had higher average weekly earnings than girls by 20p a week at £13.20 . |
| 17 | For the first time limits are being set on the number of hours which may be worked continuously . |
| 18 | ‘ In some parts of the UK cuts in local authority spending and the move to the purchaser-provider split meant that for the first time students coming off social work courses were having real difficulties finding jobs ’ Weinstein said . |
| 19 | But the testing time has now arrived ; because for the first time posts of leadership in humanities departments are being taken up by a generation of scholars who have been familiar with the computer from their earliest schooldays , scholars who are neither frightened by , nor over-respectful of , the new powers which the computer has brought . |
| 20 | Government officials are admitting for the first time families in mid-value houses of £66,000 — £88,000 are likely to face bills of £600 not £400 as hoped . |
| 21 | For the first time headmen were supposed to report all crime directly to the magistrate , who was in turn required to record the case even if there was no specific person accused . |
| 22 | For the first time bids were by competitive tender , a highly controversial system introduced by the government in an attempt to increase competition . |
| 23 | For the first time birds became a common motif . |
| 24 | The Gaullist Rally for the Republic ( RPR ) held its national congress on Feb. 11 in Le Bourget , just outside Paris , assembling for the first time delegates who had been internally elected under party reforms . |
| 25 | This means that for the first time doctors may be able to tell if an infected person who feels well is in danger of becoming ill , so that they can try to do something to prevent this . |
| 26 | For the first time Unionists may have no representative on the predominantly Catholic West Bank . |
| 27 | The power of traditional chiefs was curbed and for the first time women and young people were drawn into the political process . |
| 28 | THE ISRAELI cabinet is being called this week to debate for the first time proposals made by Egypt for advancing the search for a settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict . |
| 29 | For the first time films by and about the indigenous population of North America will be included in the festival . |
| 30 | For the first time children aged under 5 years ( other than those admitted for nursery education and those moving to a reception class from a nursery class in the same school ) will be included in the standard number and parents of such children will have admission appeal rights above . |