Example sentences of "[art] first time [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Representatives of West Berlin , which is not a constituent part of the Federal Republic , in both the Bundestag and Bundesrat have since May 1990 for the first time had full voting rights in both bodies .
2 On Feb. 6 the World Bank for the first time made major loans to Poland for structural adjustment purposes , totalling $360,000,000 , while indicating that loans in the pipeline could total five times that amount in 1990 .
3 In 1889 the Prevention of Cruelty and Protection of Children Act for the first time outlawed proven cruelty to children and allowed children in certain circumstances to be removed from their families to a place of safety , usually a charitable institution such as Barnardo 's .
4 As this was fastened and he was made ready for departure , the prince for the first time seemed ill-at-ease — as if only then did he sense the poignancy of the moment and was after all loath to go .
5 Great significance has been attached to the " break with the past " at the end of the eighteenth century , when critical economic changes for the first time allowed sustained population growth .
6 This for the first time drew explicit attention to the contradiction between the order EX 77268 of 17 May , the " Distone order " , that " Chetniks and dissident Jugoslavs " should be evacuated to Italy , and the agreement reached by 5 Corps that they should be handed over : " Ref F 77268 of 17 [ the Distone order ] .
7 Respectable workers were rewarded with the vote , and in 1868 the Royal Commission on Trade Unions recommended the extension of legal protection for trade unions , which was achieved in the Trade Union Act of 1871 which for the first time gave legal protection to Trade Union funds and the Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1875 which legalized peaceful picketing .
8 An hour and a half into the debate all four for the first time gave succinct answers in agreement to one question and were rewarded with a cheer from the floor !
9 At that time , the central government , desperate to find new conscripts for the war , for the first time introduced military service for the minority peoples .
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