Example sentences of "first time [prep] english [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first time in English law , the police are empowered by the Act to impose conditions upon public assemblies , both in advance of the assembly , and during the course of the gathering . |
| 2 | So far as more academic scholarship was concerned , the Nag Hammadi Scrolls appeared for the first time in English translation in 1977 , and within two years had inspired Elaine Pagels ' best-seller The Gnostic Gospels . |
| 3 | But now , for the first time in English history , a set of circumstances existed which tested , whether this doctrine is always workable . |
| 4 | In that imperial annus mirabilis of 1897 Nonconformist representatives were invited for the first time in English history to take part in a royal celebration when thirty representatives were allowed places at St Paul 's to witness the short act of worship in the midst of the Queen 's Jubilee procession through London . |
| 5 | Within the country , he argued , war transferred wealth from one group to another , and although war taxation produced a class of native financiers , as for example William de le Pole , for the first time in English history , it did not change the structure of the national economy . |