Example sentences of "had [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But also by 1967 , expenditure on education had for the first time in history equalled that on defence . |
| 2 | ‘ By the beginning of 1960 ’ , he wrote , ‘ it could no longer be denied that certain parts of London at night were dominated by a new spirit of insecurity ’ : ‘ juvenile delinquency had for the first time in Britain become elevated to the status of a national problem ’ . |
| 3 | The Yugoslavian authorities announced on Feb. 20 that Army units stationed in the province of Kosovo had for the first time been given specific orders to quell a renewed wave of unrest among ethnic Albanians in the province . |
| 4 | However , Syrian officials contended that with the signing of the treaty Syria had for the first time formally acknowledged Lebanon as an independent state . |
| 5 | In its annual report published on Oct. 2 the Fund confirmed that in the 12 months ended April 30 , 1991 , it had for the first time since 1984-85 made more disbursements ( 6,823 million special drawing rights : SDR1=US$1.365 as at Oct. 2 ) than it had received through repurchases or repayments ( SDR5,608 million ) . |
| 6 | The deputy chairman of the UN Special Commission on Iraq , Robert Galucci , said in Bahrain on Jan. 14 that Iraq had for the first time admitted " pursuing a production-scale centrifuge enrichment programme rather than simply a research programme " , after UN inspectors confronted Iraqi officials with evidence supplied by Germany showing the involvement of German firms in this programme . |
| 7 | Pawson has pointed out that in building the canals , British engineers had for the first time " to grapple with large scale civil engineering problems " . |
| 8 | From 1865 , however , the foreign office had for the first time a department concerned entirely with commercial affairs . |
| 9 | The demands of Cold War politics prompted Aragon to go one step further and fabricate a fictional representation of Nizan 's treachery which had in the first instance itself been fabricated from Nizan " sown fictional productions . |
| 10 | ‘ If we had stuck away some of the chances we had in the first half then we 'd have won it . ’ |
| 11 | Certainly a much better picture than the one we had in the first half of the year . |
| 12 | The best chance Town had in the first half came from this corner and it came from skipper Colin Calderwood . |
| 13 | Many countries who received aid to introduce the Green Revolution had repressive regimes , whose policies had in the first place brought about the poverty . |
| 14 | Fear of losing what we never had in the first place . |
| 15 | I found it interesting to take one person , say the rector , Charles Henstock , and make him the chief character in one book and follow his fortunes , as I had in the first book about the great Mrs Curdle . |
| 16 | The queen 's eldest son by her first husband , Thomas Grey , had in the first reign married the king 's niece Anne Holland , the daughter and heiress of Henry Holland duke of Exeter by Edward 's sister Anne . |
| 17 | The queen 's eldest son by her first husband , Thomas Grey , had in the first reign married the king 's niece Anne Holland , the daughter and heiress of Henry Holland duke of Exeter by Edward 's sister Anne . |
| 18 | He took the Canal Turn as fluently as he had on the first circuit , then swept towards Valentine 's Brook . |
| 19 | " Why are they doing all this work so early in the morning ? " she asked Captain Duro when he appeared on deck looking as spruce and polished as he had on the first day she met him . |
| 20 | The first secretary , Miss Coldharbour , Canon Wheeler 's immaculate conception , as Ian called her , had on the first day coolly returned Julia 's first batch of letters with mistakes marked in a soft shorthand pencil which proved difficult to eradicate cleanly with a rubber when the corrections had been made . |