Example sentences of "the first time in its [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE QUESTION of just who would even want to be a partner with the US was underlined last night as the American Administration headed for default for the first time in its history . |
| 2 | IBM , which announced a major restructuring after plunging into the red last year for the first time in its history , made an after-tax profit of $595m in the three months ending March . |
| 3 | John Sewell has a unique claim to a place in any gallery of Palace heroes , because he was the popular and talented skipper of the team which took our club into the 1st Division for the first time in its history , back in 1969 . |
| 4 | For the first time in its history , Dovercourt was news . |
| 5 | For the first time in its history , the Conference of European Churches ( CEC ) has decided to give priority to communication issues , placing particular emphasis on media ethics . |
| 6 | For the first time in its history D'Oyly Carte is receiving an Arts Council grant , support denied to the old company because of both its sliding standards of production and its refusal to widen its brief beyond Gilbert and Sullivan . |
| 7 | For the two years before Ford 's buy-up , Aston Martin Lagonda had actually shown a profit ( albeit modest ) , the first time in its history that it had managed to do so two years running . |
| 8 | Five years into his term , in 1972 , the BDDA at long last established headquarters at 38 Victoria Place , Carlisle , so that for the first time in its history the Association was run from its own national office by full-time paid officers . |
| 9 | For the first time in its history the Irish Bank Officials ' Association attended and was represented at the Conference by fifteen Delegates led by the President , Leonard Coote . |
| 10 | Whereas in the 1980s the reforming emphasis was on market economics without political openness ( perestroika without glasnost ) , the China of the mid-to-late 1990s was driven by a concern for political openness for the first time in its history . |
| 11 | As he sees it , the Gulf crisis of August 1990 united the United Nations on a major world issue for the first time in its history . |
| 12 | Not only has this reduced the operating costs , but it has also meant that for the first time in its history the Central Wales Line has been able to support a Sunday service ; indeed in July 1987 , one Sunday saw fourteen train movements , what with BR 's own service train , the various Recreation Ramblers , sponsored by the Sports Council , and two excursion rail tours . |
| 13 | Ironically , given the state of collapse of communism across Eastern Europe and the avowed reformist intentions of the BCP , when Lukanov 's proposals for the composition of his government were approved by the National Assembly on Feb. 8 Bulgaria acquired for the first time in its history an all-communist government . |
| 14 | In July 1989 her party secured a huge electoral breakthrough by causing the LDP to lose control of the upper chamber of the Diet for the first time in its history . |
| 15 | Even the Ottoman empire began for the first time in its history to acquire some more or less clearly defined boundaries when , after the treaty of Carlowitz of 1699 , joint commissions were set up to demarcate its frontiers with Habsburg territory . |
| 16 | For the first time in its history the 1935 Annual Conference of the ILP was attended by a fraternal delegate from the Communist Party , Harry Pollitt , who put forward the policy of " organizational unity " , that is of merging both Parties , now equal in membership , into a single unit . |
| 17 | For the first time in its history a top public school is encouraging GIRLS to play cricket . |
| 18 | The Monster blinked , for the first time in its life it looked shaken . |