Example sentences of "first time [vb mod] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Af , I thought that first time would be the last , but since this , Steve 's been dropping in during the day while my son and daughter are at work . |
| 2 | The need to prepare the economies for unemployment and social security provision for the first time will be the important issues . |
| 3 | He summarizes the kind of attitudes and assumptions towards religion which a majority of children when they arrive in school for the first time will be likely already to have assimilated . |
| 4 | Middle-class visitors entering a work-house for the first time could be deeply shaken by the harsh indignity of the prison-like routine , the grotesque , despairing toothless faces , ‘ the forlorn , half-dazed aspect of these battered human hulks who once were young . ’ |
| 5 | The infant death rate was still high enough , especially among the poor , for parents not yet to have become complacent ; meanwhile , the promise was held out , and for the first time could be kept , that babies could be successfully reared provided that medical advice was faithfully followed . |
| 6 | Coming onto a new series for the first time could be a daunting prospect even to the acting profession 's hardy perennials . |
| 7 | Putting your feet into a pair of ski boots for the first time can be alarming . |