Example sentences of "was the first time [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the first time professional ballet was seen in South Africa , and the performances caused much excitement . |
| 2 | It does n't , if you like , make sense and the key year , as I say , is nineteen seventy eight because that was the first time that spending on overseas holidays exceeded the spending on U K holidays . |
| 3 | ( This , incidentally , was the first time that Boy had heard Madame refer to herself as Mother . ) |
| 4 | Although government and rebels had met briefly in 1987 , it was the first time that army officers had agreed to talk with URNG representatives . |
| 5 | It was the first time that night Bob had displayed any real emotion . |
| 6 | This was the first time that father and son had been separated and it is apparent that Leopold undertook much of the organisation for the visit , advising Mozart and his mother of places to stay , even giving the costs of meals as they made their way through the German states . |
| 7 | It was the first time that score had been played in Cape Town , and John Wright told me that the players in rehearsal threw down their instruments in despair . |
| 8 | He admits to being nervous because it was the first time this kind of operation was carried out . |
| 9 | This was the first time this season that the number one Mercedes , which suffered all weekend from a curious instability on the bumpiest section of the 2.75 mile track , did not start a WSPC race from the front row . |