Example sentences of "[was/were] the first time [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Announcing the award of £162,150 , Mr Justice Otton said it was the first time such an action had been brought . |
| 2 | Courtaulds Fibres commercial director said this was the first time such an exercise had been held in Spain and the Courtaulds site was chose because it was the first in the country to have an emergency plan approved by the civil protection authorities . |
| 3 | It was the first time that night Bob had displayed any real emotion . |
| 4 | This was the first time that father and son had been separated and it is apparent that Leopold undertook much of the organisation for the visit , advising Mozart and his mother of places to stay , even giving the costs of meals as they made their way through the German states . |
| 5 | ( This , incidentally , was the first time that Boy had heard Madame refer to herself as Mother . ) |
| 6 | It was the first time that score had been played in Cape Town , and John Wright told me that the players in rehearsal threw down their instruments in despair . |
| 7 | It does n't , if you like , make sense and the key year , as I say , is nineteen seventy eight because that was the first time that spending on overseas holidays exceeded the spending on U K holidays . |
| 8 | Although government and rebels had met briefly in 1987 , it was the first time that army officers had agreed to talk with URNG representatives . |
| 9 | This was the first time this season that the number one Mercedes , which suffered all weekend from a curious instability on the bumpiest section of the 2.75 mile track , did not start a WSPC race from the front row . |
| 10 | It was the first time this close to the foreman . |
| 11 | As this was the first time this had happened , how could we be expected to know in advance ? |
| 12 | He admits to being nervous because it was the first time this kind of operation was carried out . |
| 13 | It was the first time any one of them had asked her reasons for wanting to come across and see the New Year in , and she answered , ‘ Some men 's do , I suppose . ’ |
| 14 | But it was the first time these five principles had been drawn together and proclaimed specifically for the Gulf . |