Example sentences of "the first time [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But families do not just decide , for the first time in history , to adopt contraception out of the blue . |
| 32 | For the first time in history the Japanese people were enjoying real freedom rather than the autocracy and totalitarianism which they had suffered prior to August 1945 . |
| 33 | With the advent of the new technology of lasers and holography it was possible for the first time in history to build the ancient consciousness-raising symbols out of pure light . |
| 34 | Nutmeg , cloves , cinnamon , and curry-powders enabled us , for the first time in history , to preserve and stockpile food across the seasons . |
| 35 | This was the first time in history that a trade union banner had been borne aloft in a great military and naval display . |
| 36 | Esher ( 1981 ) has suggested that Britain has experienced three ‘ Rebuilds ’ : the Enlightenment , the Industrial Revolution and the Welfare State : ‘ fashioned by wartime social democrats in England , which would for the first time in history build cities that were not dramatizations of privilege and poverty ’ ( p. 278 ) . |
| 37 | With the elements as slaves , then for the first time in history slavery will be abolished . |
| 38 | Launching International Literacy Year 1990 , UNESCO Director General said that the absolute number of illiterates had begun to decline for the first time in history . |
| 39 | In his opening address welcoming delegates to the summit on Nov. 19 , President François Mitterrand of France said that " it is the first time in history that we witness a change in the depth of the European landscape that is not the outcome of a war or bloody revolution " . |
| 40 | This was to be the first time in history that aircraft were used for ground attack , as an integral part of an operation carried out by ground and air forces . |
| 41 | Labour had gained over 130 seats , and for the first time in history it was the strongest party in the state . |
| 42 | The trophy , named after a past director of Stoddard 's carpets , has been at the company for the past 37 years , but this is the first time in history that the organisers have opened up the competition for runners up . |
| 43 | Both were the direct results of the application of steam to transport , since for the first time in history this made possible regular and safe journeys for large numbers of people and luggage over any kind of terrain and water . |
| 44 | Finch got up , for the first time in company for many moons , and went to the piano in his drawing room next door , shouting ‘ I ca n't do it properly . ’ |
| 45 | Loan star Imre Varadi comes in on the starting line up for the first time in favour of the suspended Nick Cusack . |
| 46 | The players will train on the new pitch for the first time in preparation for their ‘ homecoming ’ First Division sell-out fixture against Portsmouth on December 5 . |
| 47 | For the first time in peace , the US government had committed itself to a firm military alliance . |
| 48 | These pilot events have been developed , in conjunction with the Department of Industrial and Social Studies , to form the core of a new elective module ‘ Team Development in Practice ’ being offered for the first time in semester one 1993/94 . |
| 49 | This was a land where the pursuit of illusion possessed the artists ; where awkward tries at perspective were made , and revellers in scenes of feasting were shown sitting up on one elbow , on daybeds with legs disposed for the first time in recession . |
| 50 | Carlsbad , California-based Stac Electronics Inc is meeting the challenge of the built-in data compression in MS-DOS 6.0 , formally launched by Microsoft Corp yesterday with its own new Stacker 3.1 for Windows and MS-DOS : the company says the new version achieves new levels of safety and ease of use by taking advantage of special operating system features available for the first time in MS-DOS 6.0 ; when loaded , it replaces Microsoft 's DoubleSpace , and integrates the Stacker LZS compression into the operating system , and Stac claims that unlike DoubleSpace , which is based on data compression technology licensed from Vertisoft Systems Inc , $150 Stacker 3.1 is also fully compatible with earlier MS-DOSes . |
| 51 | The plans for the dump are spelt out for the first time in evidence from the CEGB to the Sizewell inquiry , now in its fourth week . |
| 52 | For the first time in memory , the conference press room telephones have been besieged by warlike members of the Shadow Cabinet , volunteering a stream of unsolicited scorn in advance of successive ministerial speeches . |
| 53 | SCOTLAND manager Andy Roxburgh yesterday named his side 48 hours in advance — for the first time in memory . |
| 54 | The International Herald Tribune of June 29 reported that the Swedish immigration board had turned down the asylum application of a Soviet Jew for the first time in memory and that immigration officials had announced on June 28 that Soviet Jews would no longer be granted asylum automatically . |
| 55 | For the first time in computer history , the US is to drop one of its standards , in favour of the International Standards Organisation 's ( ISO ) Graphic Kernel System ( GKS ) . |
| 56 | Soglo emerged victorious in the second round of voting on March 24 , the first time in mainland Africa that a head of state had been removed from power through the ballot box . |
| 57 | If the answer turns out to be by a ‘ dock identification ’ ( i.e. the witness is identified for the first time in court ) then it must be remembered that this procedure is potentially so unfair to the accused that the court of trial retains a discretion to prevent it ( Horsham JJ. , ex p . |
| 58 | Now Powell outlined a way of cutting the wages bill by almost £1m , through ‘ natural wastage ’ , pay freezes but also , for the first time in Virgin 's history , through redundancies . |
| 59 | She exhibited for the first time in spring 1900 at the New English Art Club , an organization with strong Slade connections , and continued to show there twice yearly until 1903 . |
| 60 | The first one , the first time in fact that I can remember going to the pictures , was being taken to the cinema in Lewisham by my mother to see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs just before the outbreak of the Second World War . |