Example sentences of "made [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Paris ! ) , then took a growler and made for the first address I had . |
| 2 | His mother was bending over the baby in the basketwork cradle his father had made for the first Wooldridge child , and she was mopping the fevered little body with a damp cloth . |
| 3 | A police constable caused great concern with his assertions , made for the first time some years ago , that some Kent police officers were offering inducements to prisoners to make false admissions to offences , and to confess to crimes that they had not committed , so that the force could then add to the number of crimes they had ‘ detected ’ , and thereby improve their crime clear-up statistics . |
| 4 | Each controversial assertion is treated as if it were being made for the first time . |
| 5 | This policy statement made for the first time in this context a distinction in the Secretary of State 's approach to mandatory life sentences on the one hand and discretionary life sentences on the other . |
| 6 | Bargains began to be made for the first time , and it became readily apparent to the men that whatever rights they thought they had lost , had been transposed by an orderly system which benefited them as well as the Mineral Lord . |
| 7 | More important , in 1762 recruitment was made for the first time a direct concern of the government , taking it out of the hands of the regimental officers who had hitherto controlled it . |
| 8 | ‘ Contact made for the first time last night . |
| 9 | THE draw has been made for the first round of this year 's Harp Masters International Hockey tournament , run by Annadale Hockey club . |
| 10 | Nominations made for the first ballot will be void . |
| 11 | The clinical diagnosis of colorectal carcinoma was made after the first assessment by the clinician in 13 cases ; four of five cases with carcinoma and nine of 88 without carcinoma giving a sensitivity of 80% and specificity of 90% . |
| 12 | It is with great pleasure that I now enclose a copy of the video film made of the first semi-final round . |
| 13 | On the date when delivery should have been made under the first contract , the market price was 70s . |
| 14 | probably made in the first century BC , from Alexandria . |
| 15 | The suggestion of a ‘ social contract ’ between States had already been made in the first half of the seventeenth century by Grotius . |
| 16 | Enquiries should be made in the first instance to the Academic Registrar . |
| 17 | The decision should be made in the first instance as if it were easy to be made . |
| 18 | Contact is made in the first instance with the manager nominated by the vendor 's representative . |
| 19 | Firstly , how did this extraordinary mistake came to be made in the first instance by the Department of Transport . |
| 20 | But once some set of rules has been established in this way , we might well think it more important that these rules be publicly regarded as settled , so that people can plan accordingly , than that they be the best rules that could have been found ; this provides a reason why courts should leave the rule untouched even when they think the wrong choice was made in the first instance . " |
| 21 | The principal point made in the first discussion paper on Finance is that the United Kingdom in 1973/74 contributed £313 million towards the support of Northern Ireland services , the equivalent of £200 per annum per head of the population . |
| 22 | A distinction was made in the first chapter between three types of risk , objective , estimated and subjective , and the assumption was made that subjective risk is closely related to the concept of arousal as it has been used in much memory research . |
| 23 | But how do you find out about whether a planning application has been made in the first place ? |
| 24 | It 's just difficult to know why the final decision was changed and where it was made in the first place . |
| 25 | The most powerful potential weapon in Parliament 's hands remains its control over clauses enabling regulations to be made in the first place . |
| 26 | Whatever one thinks of his comparisons , there is no difficulty in conceding in principle that physicists breaking with Newtonian concepts would be struggling to unlearn distinctions and assimilations which other cultures will never have made in the first place , so that the fundamentally different conceptualizations even of a pre-literate culture might illuminate him . |
| 27 | Devitrification is almost universal in ancient glasses which were usually badly made in the first place and have had plenty of time to crystallize ; the result , however is , often very beautiful , though these old glasses have become very weak . |
| 28 | After all , our licence fee got the programmes made in the first place |
| 29 | We apologise both to Dr. Langellier and to readers ; and summarise here some of the points made in the first article , for clarity 's sake . |
| 30 | It was a most impressive performance by the 25-year-old Lahore left-hander in only his third Test appearance , all his 205 runs made on the first day before an understandable concentration lapse . |