Example sentences of "[art] first time in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The delegates have also been allowed , for the first time in a communist party 's history since Stalin , to set up factions . |
| 2 | For the first time in a decade the Thatcherite crusade seemed to be faltering , though how permanently it was too early to judge . |
| 3 | But as the Labour parliamentary front bench scents the thaw , and surveys the possibility of government for the first time in a decade , the party pressures running in favour of detente are increasing . |
| 4 | At his first school , Stockwell Junior School , David dressed up for the first time in a school nativity play . |
| 5 | When he finally did stop working , it was the first time in a year and a half that everyone involved stopped and got a chance to take a break , and once everyone took a break , things began to change . |
| 6 | Reagan had tried to meet the families once or twice , the first time in a school library in Chicago Heights ; the relatives furiously demanded help from him , boxing him in with a semi-circle of school chairs . |
| 7 | France 's total wine exports declined for the first time in a decade last year . |
| 8 | Manchester Utd 1 Manchester City 1 JUST when the First Division championship seemed within touching distance for the first time in a quarter of a century , Steve Bruce pushed it just out of Manchester United 's reach at Old Trafford last night . |
| 9 | ‘ What a relief to be able to relax and play/work , for the first time in a large gathering , with a peer group of equals . |
| 10 | In the case of Sheffield City Council v A.D.H. Demolition Ltd the Divisional court of the queens bench made it clear , for the first time in a reported case , that ‘ premises ’ within s.1(1) of the 1968 Act covered more than a building standing on a particular piece of ground , but did include a vacant site . |
| 11 | For the first time in a BHC hovercraft , the AP1-88 has separate engines to provide lift and generate forward speed . |
| 12 | Richie Richardson was in his first Test as captain , leading a team minus Richards , Gordon Greenidge , Jeffrey Dujon and Malcolm Marshall for the first time in a Barbados Test since 1983 and , with Gus Logie and Carl Hooper eliminated by injury , showing six changes to that in the previous Test on the ground against Australia a year earlier . |
| 13 | History in the making at Barbados : West Indian and South African players and officials meet for the first time in a Test match . |
| 14 | The serious Christian , set down for the first time in a Christian community , is likely to bring with him a very definite idea of what Christian life together should be and try to realize it . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , in Britain , we have the sight of the old left coalition , aka the Labour Party , indicating , for the first time in a generation , that it is receptive to the wholesale importation of ideas from outside . |
| 16 | She had fallen into a deep and dreamless sleep , the first time in a fortnight she had slept so well , when Quinn nudged her awake . |
| 17 | There are bound to be some tears around the 4th and 10th but , with Jupiter in Libra for the first time in a decade , you can not allow yourself to be constrained any more . |
| 18 | Food shortages and the lack of heating or lighting in towns , and the time-consuming difficulties of finding ways round them for city-dwellers , meant that for the first time in a century , if not longer , life in the country was not to be despised . |
| 19 | I was taken from the cellar in Beirut and enjoyed the warmth of the sun on my skin for the first time in a thousand days . |
| 20 | WOLVES winger Robbie Dennison has been recalled to Northern Ireland 's squad for the first time in a year . |
| 21 | And after scoring four for the first time in a European game , he said : ‘ I 'm proud and privileged to break such a great player 's record . |
| 22 | The National Gallery is promoting ‘ Great French Paintings from the Barnes Collection ’ as an unprecedented look at these pictures , for the first time in a conventional museum setting . |
| 23 | Fibre Channel Standard technology was also featured for the first time in a cluster and high-speed networking environment . |
| 24 | Marsh , relieved of his post as vice-captain and opening batsman after producing just 185 runs at 26 in four Tests against India and 226 at 25 in West Indies early in 1991 , appeared to accept the logic behind his demise , the first time in a 50-Test career he had been dropped . |
| 25 | The result was to leave London without an elected representative body for the first time in a hundred years , and all the metropolitan areas without an authority responsible for producing an overall strategic plan . |
| 26 | In 1974 , for example , we learned that ‘ For the first time in a century and a half , since the great Tory reformer Robert Peel set up the Metropolitan police areas of our cities are becoming unsafe for peaceful citizens by night , and some even by day ’ — from no less an authority than that great Tory reformer Sir Keith Joseph . |
| 27 | Sir Keith Joseph offers a flexi-time history according to which , in the same speech where he entertained the spectacular belief that Britain 's streets had been plunged into insecurity ‘ for the first time in a century and a half ’ , he also conjured with a more modest timescale whereby ‘ such words as good and evil , such stress on self-discipline and standards have been out of favour since the war ’ . |
| 28 | Although Japan was for the first time in a dominant position vis-à-vis China , the problem of disputed influence in Korea remained . |
| 29 | ‘ In the Schedule to the Act of 1887 there are found , for the first time in a statute , suggested forms of inquisition or verdict . |
| 30 | Now , however , having regard to what was learnt by C.N.L. 's counsel whilst sitting in court during the successful appeal , they are for the first time in a position to raise a plea of justification . |