Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [prep] the first time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ISO should reveal for the first time the fine details of star-birth . |
| 2 | the commentary must say for the first time what had , nonetheless , already been said [ by the original text ] and must tirelessly repeat what had never been said [ by other commentators ] . |
| 3 | Reform has already begun : this weekend voters could choose for the first time a single named candidate for the lower house , instead of numbers on a party list . |
| 4 | And they could see for the first time the lights of settlements off in the dark distance of the Vale . |
| 5 | They had whalebone in these stays and we used to cut pieces about half an inch long and in the daytime , I used to make a bag full and put them in between the doors and I 'd go round the first time and put them in and when I went round later , if that whalebone was missing , I 'd make enquiries . |
| 6 | As she shares Christmas dinner with her brother Charles , Diana will experience for the first time the trauma she has dreaded since the cracks first showed in her marriage . |
| 7 | It could well be that an Australian will win for the first time . |
| 8 | ; Mij All twelve writers will come to a glitzy show biz type lunch at the Cafe Royal , hosted by David Frost , and that 's where we will know for the first time , who 's , who is the overall winner , the runner-up and the third place writer . |
| 9 | This social report , which will appear for the first time in respect of the year ended 31 March 1993 , will include personnel issues , relationships with producers , educational and development impact , shareholder relations , and environmental impact . |
| 10 | So I will begin with the first time I ever saw John Russell . |
| 11 | Steve Jones will run for the first time in the Morpeth-Newcastle , Britain 's oldest road race , on New Year 's Day .. |
| 12 | Steve Jones will run for the first time in the Morpeth-Newcastle , Britain 's oldest road race , on New Year 's Day .. |
| 13 | The module , which will run for the first time from February 1994 , offers students an opportunity to spend time working with a voluntary/ community organisation . |
| 14 | The Cabinet will meet for the first time on Wednesday to draw up a programme of legislation for the new session of Parliament , which will last 18 months until the autumn of 1993 . |
| 15 | ‘ Following this decision , the Community will have for the first time a single framework within which takeovers and mergers of a Community dimension can be dealt with , recognising the importance of maintaining fair competition throughout the single market . ’ |
| 16 | American soldiers will serve for the first time under a non-American chief , a Turk . |
| 17 | This will establish for the first time a knowledge of the process by which characteristic feature of the modern metropolis emerged . |
| 18 | LUTON v ASTON VILLA Nielsen , Villa 's Danish defender , will start for the first time if McGrath fails to recover from the hamstring injury which kept him out of the Republic of Ireland team in midweek . |
| 19 | THE Kellogg 's Tour of Britain will start for the first time in Portsmouth and finish in Liverpool after 550 miles ' racing in five days in August . |
| 20 | Swansea 's Clement will train for the first time since being sidelined for more than six weeks with a stress fracture of the shin . |
| 21 | How important this single factor is in maintaining traditional agricultural management in the French uplands is impossible to estimate but , if the proposal remains as it is , more small French farms in the LFA may intensify for the first time . |