Example sentences of "[conj] it is the [num ord] time " in BNC.
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1 | He says that it is the first time the Japanese governent has expressed interest in the IASC 's work . |
2 | Yesterday 's bombs are thought to have been Semtex and it is the first time outside the capital that devices have been casually placed by the road side . |
3 | Lord Aldington replied : ‘ This will be the hundredth time you say what I 've said is a lie , and it is the hundredth time you have made me very angry . ’ |
4 | When you meet somebody , especially if it is the first time of meeting , your senses are working flat out to process all the data . |
5 | Inevitably there is a certain amount of routine in everyone 's life and the person who lives alone also needs to establish some routine , no matter how tempting it may be to lead an unfettered existence , particularly if it is the first time you have lived on your own . |
6 | Thus , if it is the first time someone tells you a particular genre of joke , you may not know the appropriate type of response . |
7 | That is pretty obvious , but it is the first time the Najibullah government has said so . |
8 | But it is the first time that we have seen such a phenomenon on a large scale . |
9 | ‘ But it is the first time we have established formal procedures which ensure that we deliver and measure against set and agreed criteria . |
10 | Later , Fiat issued a statement saying it had learned of the arrests ‘ with great astonishment ’ but it is the second time the company has been involved in the ongoing scandal . |
11 | While this as such simply acknowledges the situation as it is and is followed by a far longer passage relating to the benefits of celibacy for the Western rite , it remains a highly important text because it is the first time a Roman Council or any major Roman document has explicitly accepted and recommended the uniting of priesthood and marriage in a single life . |
12 | Dr William Fore , former WACC President and now Visiting Lecturer in Communication at the School , said in a recent letter to delegates : ‘ The meeting promises to be a landmark , since it is the first time that teachers of communication in seminaries and schools of theology will have come together to consider their distinctive task in theological education . ’ |
13 | This enterprising tour should be well worth following as it is the first time cricketers of this age from South Africa have toured in England . |