Example sentences of "used [prep] the first [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Variable speed allowed the most aggressive setting — 7 on the control dial — to be used for the first stages , and a gentler 3 or 4 cleaned up the veneer surface .
2 There are two common notes in this phrase : A , the 6th in C and the 3rd in F , is used for the first change ( bars 1 and 2 ) ; whilst E , the 3rd in C and maj7th in F , is used for the second ( bars 2 and 3 ) …
3 Strangely , it was later used for the first city telegraph !
4 Bonaventure of the St John of God Hospitallers , welcomed everyone on arrival at the centre which was to be used for the first time .
5 It became the permanent home of the German race with the exception of 1959 when the race was staged at Avus , and 1970 when Hockenheim was used for the first time .
6 There 's a new vaccine introduced last October which is being er , used for the first time in this country to prevent meningitis in children .
7 On this canal poundlocks were used for the first time in England , i.e. , an upper and a lower gate fitted with sluices and enclosing a chamber into which boats passed to be raised or lowered to the next level .
8 Nevertheless , perhaps because of the procedural problems outlined above , Article 100A(4) appears to have been used for the first time only in 1992 , in relation to German legislation banning the use of PCP ( pentachlorophenol ) despite the fears expressed at the time the Single European Act was signed that it would destroy the Court 's achievements in this sphere .
9 They were soon copied by the French , who developed formations of this kind on a large scale from the 1760s onwards , while light infantry were used for the first time in Europe by the Russians at the siege of Kolberg in 1761 .
10 For example , the 1987/88 Programme of Work included a major review of the modules in Personal and Social Development ( PSD ) ; the fruits of this review appeared in the catalogue last April and the new and revised modules are being used for the first time this session .
11 The emergency service was used for the first time on 17th .
12 Evidence collected by a new computer-controlled water monitoring and sampling device developed by the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) has been used for the first time to prosecute a company for polluting a waterway .
13 Oh rather yes , out-work , people used during the First World War there were no end of people were sort of er especially if they 'd had a bit of experience in the leather industry like harness and saddlery and that sort of thing , especially the harness and er other work attached to leather cavalry and er revolver holsters and that sort of thing , they 'd do them at home you know oh yes there was er now Walsall 's divided is n't it ?
14 Furthermore , staining could not be observed when the solution of purified primary antibody absorbed with PT-gliadin was used as the first layer ( figure not shown ) .
15 The agency will ensure that resources made available by reductions in defence spending — reductions already planned by the Conservative government — are used in the first instance for rebuilding and investing in our manufacturing base .
16 One way around this particular problem would be to adapt the approach recommended by the Canadian Sentencing Commission ( 1997 ) , in which guide-lines are used in the first instance simply to indicate offences for which the presumptive sentence would ( or would normally ) involve a community sanction , and those which would ( or would normally ) involve a custodial penalty .
17 Roman bronze coins of the early second century BC were still being used in the first century AD , and very little bronze coinage was made between about 150 and 20BC .
18 It is clear that there was a steady expansion of the words used for trusts , from the basic four expressions used in the first century to the ten or so in use by the end of the third century .
19 The second prevalence survey employed eight indicator agencies : six of the ten agencies used in the first survey ( Home Office , police , probation service , Detoxification Unit , Drugs Council , and Education Department ) and two additional agencies , the Wirral Committee on Solvent Abuse , and the Society for Biophysical Medicine .
20 Effect is wrongly used in the first sentence of the passage .
21 The total number of pieces of gum used in the first day should be gradually reduced over a subsequent period of ten days .
22 The key question is not whether their use may be discontinued , once started ; rather , it is whether they should be used in the first place .
23 This would be used in the first place to pay that week 's invoice and the balance , if any , would reduce the outstanding invoice of £24,196 .
24 Resources — the reason why discretion is used in the first place may be because of limited resources .
25 The village hall , known as the Victory Hall , was an old army hut used in the First World War .
26 Among some of the exotic craft on display are bi-planes used in the First World War .
27 The 601 , to sample later this year is destined to be used in the first Power PC Macs and other low cost desktops .
28 Erm the actual percentage of the ingredients used over the first year erm is about five percent for water , twenty three point six percent for the bottle , I 'll explain that later that 's quite high , the cap is four percent , one percent for the gassing , erm one percent for the case , two point seven percent for labour , four percent for transport , a general overhead would be about seventeen point one percent .
29 The only conclusion I can draw is that the two-pack AC lacquer that was used on the first table was something that I will not use again on dark timber if I want to bring out the full colour of the wood .
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