Example sentences of "the first time [that] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is also the first time that the Under-Secretary of State , the hon. Member for Maidstone ( Miss Widdecombe ) , has been allowed out to speak from the Treasury Bench in the Chamber . |
| 2 | This was the first time that the audit fee had been put out to tender but finance director Trevor Larman says : ‘ Whether it 's diesel fuel or trucks , we will always seek a quote . ’ |
| 3 | This was the first time that the government had confirmed that all votes would be of equal value ; de Klerk did not specify , however , whether there would be a common voters ' roll or separate rolls . |
| 4 | It was the first time that the government had simultaneously formulated a 10-year programme and a five-year plan [ see p. 37917 for adoption of plan and programme guidelines at seventh CCP plenum held in December 1990 ; see p. 38097 for report on seventh five-year plan ] . |
| 5 | Might he not be playing a far deeper game although not a new one , since it would not be the first time that the man who hatched the plot and encouraged others most ardently to join it , should be the very one to turn his fellow conspirators over to the magistrates . |
| 6 | The Soviet announcement in September 1989 that it was to dismantle the Krasnoyarsk radar station in Siberia ( see p. 36909 ) was followed by a statement on Oct. 23 , 1989 , by the Soviet Foreign Minister , Eduard Shevardnadze , who admitted for the first time that the location and orientation of the radar station constituted " a violation of the ABM treaty " . |
| 7 | This will be the first time that the chief of the US central bank , effectively head-keeper of the capitalist conscience , has visited the Soviet Union . |
| 8 | This is not , of course , the first time that the play has been performed in this way — in 1967 , for instance , the National Theatre mounted a brilliant all-male ‘ As You Like It ’ , with Ronald Pickup as Rosalind and Anthony Hopkins ( ! ) as Audrey . |
| 9 | This is the first time that the award has gone to somebody from the hotel and catering industry , or indeed from the service sector as a whole . |
| 10 | It was the first time that the award had been made to a Communist head of state . |
| 11 | This purchase of a ‘ shell ’ company was the first time that the manoeuvre had been executed and the first time that a bookmaking company had been floated on the Stock Exchange . |
| 12 | It was the first time that the possibility of the murderer 's being a woman had occurred to Melissa and the realisation came as a shock . |
| 13 | It was the first time that the possibility of his wife 's falling in love with anybody had occurred to him and he was horrified . ’ |
| 14 | Switzerland , although not a UN member , joined the embargo by banning oil imports and arms sales , and freezing Iraqi and Kuwaiti assets in Switzerland — the first time that the country had associated itself with UN sanctions . |
| 15 | The current excavations are the first time that the theatre 's remains have been seen since that destruction . |
| 16 | The first time that the door opened and spilled yellow light out on to the dark afternoon street , it was the parson making a bid for freedom . |
| 17 | However , the Palace did deny a report that senior royal officials had admitted for the first time that the marriage was in difficulty . |
| 18 | The riots were put down by the Yugoslav National Army ( JNA ) , with support from Serbia , in an apparent rebuttal of the Croatian authorities ; observers noted that this was the first time that the JNA , whose officer corps was dominated by ethnic Serbs , had been used to put down violence outside Serbia itself . |
| 19 | A series of lectures organized by the National Arts Collections Fund focusing on creating and preserving collections and will be held during the fair ; it marks the first time that the NACF has initiated a project at a trade fair . |
| 20 | In a letter to The Scotsman , Dr Peter Sanders , the commission 's chief executive , confirms publicly for the first time that the report ‘ reveals distorted representation of children from ethnic minorities living in Glasgow , in special educational needs categories ’ . |
| 21 | This will be the first time that the conference has visited the United Kingdom . |
| 22 | It is the first time that the Stylesetter Award has been given to an Axminster carpet range . |
| 23 | So now , more mildly , Frederica saw for the first time that the light was gold , that olives were black and warm , the olive trees were powdery-grey , that lavender was a purple haze . |
| 24 | The Tour has rested at Bordeaux many times , but this is the first time that the caravan has used Nogent-sur-Oise for the beginning of a day 's racing . |
| 25 | Straightening , the Doctor looked around , noticing for the first time that the hill he had asked about earlier when he was with Howard , was also visible from here . |
| 26 | When a dispute arose under the contract , it was discovered for the first time that the copy returned by B had a number of terms printed on the back , in German , including a clause conferring jurisdiction in relation to disputes under the contract on the German courts . |
| 27 | It is the first time that the organization has given such a direct warning , however . |
| 28 | This was the first time that the health service had ever been asked to make staff economies . |