Example sentences of "the first time in [art] history " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first time in the history of the service , army units have been sent in to maintain order in prisons , writes Sarah Lambert . |
| 2 | They include the products of the spread of the reptiles back into the aqueous environment from which their distant ancestors emerged , and , for the first time in the history of the vertebrates , the conquest of the air . |
| 3 | Their most pressing concern was the seven-year-old Iran-Iraq war , and the Palestine question was pushed to the bottom of the list of priorities for the first time in the history of the Arab League . |
| 4 | Consequently Hunt earned the thanks of The Civil Engineer and Architects ' Journal for his innovation , and a few days later in the House , Gladstone was able to say with satisfaction that ‘ for the first time in the history of public edifices in the metropolis ’ , it was possible to state what the real cost would be . |
| 5 | The fourth attribute demanded by George Corner , that of understanding , is possible for the first time in the history of civilization ; but it is a possibility which so far is available to only a small minority of specialists . |
| 6 | Now , for the first time in the history of medical science , a substance has been isolated about which it is possible to say : ‘ If you base your slimming diet on this food you should shed weight more quickly and easily than on a diet based on the same quantity of any other foods . ’ |
| 7 | This was held on 16 February 1936 and for the first time in the history of the Second Republic involved an evenly matched contest between large , cohesive left- and right-wing alliances ; the Radical Party virtually disappeared as a significant force , leaving the political centre effectively unrepresented . |
| 8 | It is the first time in the history of this House that a petition has been presented accompanied by a demand . ’ |
| 9 | For the first time in the history of the Beaubourg , the presidency has gone to a representative of the museum world , rather than to a high-ranking official from the Ministry of Culture . |
| 10 | One of the more radical features of the Social Security Pensions Act was , for the first time in the history of the British social security system , the recognition of voluntary role reversal . |
| 11 | … for the first time in the history of the 500-year-old world economy , the profitable production of manufactures for the world market has finally become possible to a significant and increasing extent , not only in the industrialized countries , but also now in the developing countries . |
| 12 | Indeed , it is not an exaggeration ( or a slur ) to say that the students were sometimes a jump ahead of their tutors , not for the first time in the history of education ! |
| 13 | This is not just climbing on to a fashionable band-wagon , it is facing up to the fact that for the first time in the history of our science we are approaching a general theory of the earth . |
| 14 | Does he also admit that for the first time in the history of the national health service , waiting lists for day patients and in-patients combined have risen above 900,000 people ? |
| 15 | As a result , for the first time in the history of East Germany the Communists were in a minority in the Council of Ministers [ for initial composition see p. 37025 ; for January 1990 changes see pp. 37170-71 ] . |
| 16 | The Middle East International of April 13 stated that " for the first time in the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict , mutual deterrence has been introduced as a strategic concept " . |
| 17 | ‘ My view is that if a union like the AEEU , with a million members , was outwith the TUC , for the first time in the history of the trade union movement there could be a rival centre to the TUC . |
| 18 | ‘ This is the first time in the history of higher education in Scotland that any lecturer has been threatened with compulsory redundancy . ’ |