Example sentences of "[noun prp] for the first time [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | With a touch of paint , the ex-lifeboat The Guy and Clare Hunter — it was named after two of its most generous benefactors — took to the high seas of Belfast Lough for the first time this summer . |
| 2 | With the scheduling of the 1992 Asian Classic — in Thailand for the first time this year — for January 30 , and the new World Championship for mid-December each year , the professional golf season now effectively covers 12 months , involving more travel than ever before . |
| 3 | CHINA : Amnesty International was publicly recognised by a senior government official in the People 's Republic of China for the first time last year , in connection with the commutation of the death sentence of Lobsang Tenzin , a Tibetan student accused of the murder of a Chinese policeman . |
| 4 | Now that they have achieved that ambition ahead of schedule , Stokes has the chance to take a team into Europe for the first time next season . |
| 5 | These potatoes are round and white , a new Dutch strain , being grown in Britain for the first time this year . |
| 6 | The 1851 census revealed that in Britain for the first time more people lived in towns than in the country and that trend continued . |
| 7 | The first part of the walk kicks off up a private road gliding beneath a fabulous railway viaduct , the very one from which I had gazed in my bike-less train down the length of Loch Shiel for the first time some ten years earlier . |
| 8 | But does anybody see New York for the first time these days ? |
| 9 | Glentoran need to defeat Larne at Inver Park tomorrow ( Group D ) to be sure of a place in the TNT quarter-finals ; they include Raymond Morrison for the first time this season . |
| 10 | A REBEL priest who defies church law by marrying divorced Catholics is to conduct a wedding in Edinburgh for the first time next year . |
| 11 | PETER SCHMEICHEL arrives in London for the first time this season convinced Manchester United can become the first Premier League champions . |
| 12 | Plans to make this the theme of the 1993 rights meeting follows the decision of the fair organisers to allocate electronic publishing a special area of its own at Frankfurt for the first time this year . |
| 13 | Goal machine Martin McGaughey , even deadlier than Cowan at his Linfield peak , had a chance to decide for himself when he faced Smith for the first time last week . |