Example sentences of "[noun pl] for the first time " in BNC.
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| 1 | By mid-1966 unemployment in Germany exceeded vacancies for the first time since 1959 . |
| 2 | For example , it was pointed out to me that some teachers were making lesson notes for the first time in years ! |
| 3 | Earlier , as the government and ANC took steps at the weekend to prepare for South Africa 's first all-race elections , President FW de Klerk gave cabinet posts to non-whites for the first time in South Africa 's history and got rid of white ministers said to be reluctant to back his sweeping apartheid reforms . |
| 4 | While they are carefully listed , there is not enough to get their flavour Franklin lived many lives : that of scientist investigating electrical phenomena for the first time , lobbyist for the new born United States in London , and gun runner for the infant |
| 5 | The number of boys fluctuated around 100 , but the School at last seemed to have become viable , a credit balance appearing in the accounts for the first time . |
| 6 | The General Post Office appears in the accounts for the first time . |
| 7 | You mentioned the accounts of the Maxwell Charitable Trust as having five hundred thousand of assets , I saw those accounts for the first time the other day and I found that they had five hundred and one thousand of assets of which er five hundred thousand consisted of a a purely hypothetical transfer of an asset from a Liechtenstein trust to the U K trust and that asset had no valuation done on it as far as I can make out a and no reference to any valuation appeared in the accounts , so we actually had B I M apparently owned by a charitable trust on the face of it with figures of five hundred and one thousand of assets , but in practical accounting terms and valuation terms , no evidence that those five hundred and one thousand pounds er of assets had any valuation approaching that figure . |
| 8 | Then , on 20 June , the Germans for the first time employed a new type of diphosgene gas shell . |
| 9 | The offence is in outline very similar to the pre-existing offence under the Public Order Act 1936 , section 5A , although it adds ‘ behaviour ’ to the list of proscribed activities for the first time . |
| 10 | Some of these activities related to institutional developments ( for example , on diversification ) , others to new ways of approaching familiar ground ( for example , on school experience ) , others to new approaches to the packaging of knowledge and its applications ( for example , a conference on communication studies held in 1978 ) , others to the representation of existing activities for the first time in higher education ( for example , in the creative and performing arts ) , and yet others on the mechanics of the CNAA 's own work in validating courses and seeking to assure standards ( for example , a conference on the role of external examiners held in October 1978 ) . |
| 11 | In the depth of the recession , with the motor industry suffering more than most , Rover is introducing night shifts for the first time in three years . |
| 12 | ‘ Heavens no , ’ agreed Julia , thinking about the Easter plans for the first time that evening . |
| 13 | Many hundreds of thousands of trade unionists were among those who became shareholders for the first time . |
| 14 | Large areas of western Scotland , mid- and North Wales and the upland zones of the North and South West of England have exhibited population gains , in some cases for the first time in over a century . |
| 15 | In the event of trouble , many of the non-union operators now would have easier access — in some cases for the first time — to the political system and its protective police arm . |
| 16 | The right of an employee inventor to claim statutory compensation from his employer has recently been asserted before the courts for the first time in a series of three reported cases emanating from the Comptroller of Patents and the Patents Court . |
| 17 | To use the army as strike-breakers for the first time since Franco ( and Spain 's universally detested military service would have caused some intersting tests of loyalty ) would have provoked a confrontation with an unclear outcome for both sides . |
| 18 | This established licensing hours for the first time , and put brewers on the defensive . |
| 19 | Confronting explicitly collectivist opponents for the first time , the Conservative party , so Fforde contends , stressed the values of the free market , turned to the classical economists to justify non-intervention , and revealed themselves to be doctrinally committed to individualism . |
| 20 | He had on his new black cords for the first time ( they were a Christmas present from his mother . |
| 21 | She noticed his teeth for the first time : small and irregular , like pieces of gravel on a driveway , but sparkling white . |
| 22 | ‘ I 1987 I went to Edinburgh and saw live stand-up comics for the first time , ’ says Frank Skinner . |
| 23 | On this occasion some of the Messerschmitts had carried bombs for the first time — not a new role for III/JG 27 , which had operated in this manner over the Balkans during the previous month . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's remarkable that , in addition to playing 11 cities around the country , the educational programme played to over 5,000 kids and brought many of them to the main theatre in their local cities for the first time in their lives , on subsidised tickets . |
| 25 | A PUBLIC inquiry today could make legal history as the Nature Conservancy Council attempts for the first time to purchase compulsorily a farmer 's land to protect a rich wildlife habitat . |
| 26 | Table 2.2 demonstrates changes over the seventeen years to 1987 : western Europe took over half our exports for the first time in recent history ; by 1987 , the EC alone took virtually half , and most other destinations , except for North America , had declined in relative importance . |
| 27 | Along with the island 's hydro-electric scheme — bringing power to some houses for the first time — and the harbour improvements , the incident will probably go down in Shetland annals as another stage in Foula 's modernisation . |
| 28 | Although there was no official statement concerning the content of the agenda , it was widely believed that the two sides would begin detailed discussions for the first time since the negotiations began in July 1990 . |
| 29 | This was the classic showman speaking and on this occasion he was directing his remarks directly at those intellectuals whom his films had brought into cinemas for the first time . |
| 30 | The Polish government has published figures on lead emissions for the first time . |