Example sentences of "for the first [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first race the trainer friend advised us to back a horse called , I think , Super Duper . |
| 2 | What we can now see is that for the first timefor a very long epriod we have inflation at a ver low level and the clear prospect of growth without inflationary difficulties . |
| 3 | ( a ) For the first year the Company will pay the Corporation £2,532 14s. 10½d. and sums calculated by the Borough Surveyor in subsequent years ( with certain safeguards ) . |
| 4 | For the first category the two main concerns are that the software will accept input from whatever word processor you are currently using and that the page printer will support your required fonts . |
| 5 | When , in the first Test at Trent Bridge , Gooch and Broad put on 125 for the first wicket the smiles were widening all the time ; when the last wicket fell with just 245 on the board we knew where we really were . |
| 6 | For the first week the FILMS FROM THE URBAN JUNGLE series echoes the city themes of the festival , from the Cities and Media conference to the presentation of Tavernier films which celebrate the city of Lyon , Tavernier 's birthplace , and Birmingham 's twin town . |
| 7 | The pace picks up towards the end : Bolam 's hair goes awry , and for the first time a sense of desperation enters his acting . |
| 8 | For the first time a civil servant , perforce , began to affect what happened . |
| 9 | For the first time a mathematical definition of overcrowding was given by the National Government in their Act of 1935 , and a determined attack was made on this evil . |
| 10 | ‘ Following this decision , the Community will have for the first time a single framework within which takeovers and mergers of a Community dimension can be dealt with , recognising the importance of maintaining fair competition throughout the single market . ’ |
| 11 | American production soared , largely to meet overseas demand , and the Soviet Union , despite some impressive gains in production , became for the first time a large importer . |
| 12 | The champagne reception — at which Kylie began to demonstrate for the first time a new found confidence with both press and public — also gave them the perfect opportunity to milk their golden child 's latest achievement , three UK gold discs for ‘ Kylie ’ the LP , and the singles ‘ I Should Be So Lucky ’ and ‘ Got To Be Certain ’ . |
| 13 | Setting up the service provides for the first time a national intelligence-gathering operation on organised crime and criminals . |
| 14 | Reform has already begun : this weekend voters could choose for the first time a single named candidate for the lower house , instead of numbers on a party list . |
| 15 | For the first time a fairly extensive observation exercise was initiated involving close reporting of the drama teaching in six education authorities conducted throughout the period of one academic year . |
| 16 | Industrialization created for the first time a new political force in the mass of factory workers . |
| 17 | Alongside this flourishing of national cultures , for the first time a real international economic division of labour would emerge , covering multinational economic regions in which each nation would play a specialized role for all other : |
| 18 | I had felt for the first time a gnawing loneliness , finding echoes of familiar landscapes in the sweep of a glen , the gentle bend of a river . |
| 19 | Reading Neale 's articles in the immediate context of teaching for the first time a course dangerously titled , ‘ Television Theory ’ ( is there such a thing ? ) , |
| 20 | Indeed , the Home Secretary , Mr Leon Brittan , took great pride in the fact that , unlike any of its predecessors , the Conservative Government had provided for the first time a clear and comprehensive statutory framework for the interception of communications . |
| 21 | He stood up and I noticed for the first time a bunch of keys at his belt . |
| 22 | When saving a file for the first time a SUMMARY INFORMATION menu may be displayed . |
| 23 | For the first time a British government has established a mechanism enabling it to determine the content and purposes of education along broadly similar lines to other Western European democracies . |
| 24 | With the widespread translation of Early Irish stories into English around the turn of the century a younger generation of Irishmen and women discovered for the first time a fresh and potent source of images to define their sense of nationality . |
| 25 | In March 1980 the International Robot Symposium and Exhibition was held in Milan , and for the first time a British robot manufacturer showed its wares in a manner comparable with the best . |
| 26 | Using the 100-inch telescope on Mount Wilson , in 1923 Hubble identified for the first time a cepheid variable star in a spiral ‘ nebula ’ ( M 31 in Andromeda ) , and proceeded in the next few years to make similar discoveries in several other such ‘ nebulae ’ . |
| 27 | The stage was set for the establishment of thirteen ‘ centres of excellence ’ for the development of full-time surveying — thanks , principally to the foresight and energy of HMI Howard Wainwright — and for the first time a sense of security and confidence was available to the selected centres , as they were encouraged to improve their resources base and to develop exempting RICS diplomas , and subsequently degrees , to be validated by the CNAA . |
| 28 | It is true , however , that taken as a whole , the 1947 Act created for the first time a comprehensive framework for planning and thereby laid the groundwork for a permanent and highly significant change in the public attitude to private property and its use and development . |
| 29 | The force expanded , working conditions improved , and for the first time a limited capacity for detection was developed . |
| 30 | The new fact in the world 's history is that for the first time a great power with a formidable Navy , a population from which vast armies might be raised , and an economic and financial strength which might alone be decisive in any future conflict , is prepared to stake its own peace , not merely to guarantee its own interests , nor to further the partisan aims of its allies , but to make an end in the world of the possibility of prosperous aggression … . beyond the American continent her only interests are the open door to trade , freedom of the seas , and the maintenance of peace . |