Example sentences of "[vb pp] for the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further , on appointment he had realised for the first time that the eastern parts of the District remained largely undeveloped by the WEA . |
| 2 | And realised for the first time that my lot as a walker was far safer than that of a cyclist . |
| 3 | In the report the former President , Chiang Kai-shek was criticized for the first time for failing to punish the officials responsible for the massacre . |
| 4 | Filled for the first time in twenty years , Lake Eyre became a rich source of food , attracting tens of thousands of birds whose closest usual breeding area is five hundred miles to the south . |
| 5 | Eight months earlier he made an abortive attempt for the title , then held by the Frenchman Franck Nicotra , only to be stopped for the first time in his professional career . |
| 6 | Jasbir Singh was stopped for the second time in two days driving his blue Ford Escort van . |
| 7 | Babies were not the only people whose rights were being demanded at the end of the Second World War ; other groups , too , submerged in anonymous poverty through years of unemployment , had in wartime received for the first time their fair share both of work and of food , and were now making it clear that neither malnutrition nor the grinding degradation of worklessness could any longer be tolerated by the ‘ lower classes ’ of the victorious nations . |
| 8 | Nor should it be forgotten , as Professor Orth has pointed out , that in 1799 penalties were prescribed for the first time for workmen as a class , not for hatters or paper makers as a special group ; in other words , the language of the act was concerned with a horizontal social division , not with the reconciliation of difference within the vertical structure of a craft . |
| 9 | During the relaying of this track , the Marton trams operated in a complete circle , returning to Talbot Square via Royal Oak and Lytham Road , while the St. Annes blue cars were diverted for the first time to the Promenade at Talbot Square . |
| 10 | The whole of Ramsay 's Edinburgh-Rome-London career is examined for the first time , with over one hundred exhibits , including many of his fine drawings . |
| 11 | The prizewinner was presented with a cup , which had been given for the first time in 1987 . |
| 12 | In France the post of Secretary of State for War was given for the first time to a soldier ( the Maréchal de Belle-Isle ) in 1758 ; and in the second half of the century there was a slow but steady tendency for the most important officials concerned , the intendants d'armées and the contrôleurs des guerres , to be military men . |
| 13 | The North Atlantic deep-sea ophiuroid fauna , comprising of approximately 120 species , is revised for the first time . |
| 14 | The case against Therese Dunne ( 42 ) , a buyer with Dunnes Stores , was halted for the second time in three months yesterday because of the alleged interference . |
| 15 | It was reburied for the last time in 1973 after the number of visitors was found to be too high for the Cotswold village of Woodchester to cope with . |
| 16 | Strikes were legalized for the first time in Bulgaria 's history when on March 6 the National Assembly passed a bill on settling collective industrial disputes . |
| 17 | Now back at Jan Smuts Airport , X-Ray Foxtrot may well have flown for the second time in civvies by the time these words are read . |
| 18 | Flown for the first time in 1958 , the DHC-4 Caribou has seen extensive military service . |
| 19 | The first PC-5A assembled in India was flown for the first time in August 1941 and one report suggests that fifty were delivered to the Indian Air Force from 1942 , but this has not been confirmed . |
| 20 | I 'd flown for the first time , out to Malta in an old , rattling York aircraft , and then on to the Canal one . |
| 21 | The high level of technical ability of Roman engineers , together with the well-developed commercial economy , meant that major civil engineering schemes could also be undertaken for the first time in the landscape . |
| 22 | Every activity in the left-hand path is treated as if it were being undertaken for the first time . |
| 23 | UNEMPLOYMENT in Britain has fallen for the first time in almost three years . |
| 24 | CHURCH collections have fallen for the first time for more than a decade , it emerged today . |
| 25 | I mentioned earlier this year ( 24 January ) the plight of a useful local scavenger , the scrapman , faced by a battery of anti-pollution legislation , intended for the big time operators . |
| 26 | indeed , Mo Johnston , recalled for the first time in two months , was the only Everton player in the starting line-up who had managed a goal in front of the Goodison public . |
| 27 | A special austerity programme had reduced the range of consumer goods and foodstuffs , with eggs and bread being rationed for the first time . |
| 28 | His mother held him on her knee and explained for the hundredth time how big the ship would be and how many oceans it would cross and what his big brother would see from it . |
| 29 | When the Mughal court was disbanded , Muslim hijras were exposed for the first time to the other , Hindu , tradition of eunuchry . |
| 30 | The significance of the defeat on Monday of Ken Livingstone , Brent East MP , could only be calculated for the first time yesterday when the detailed voting figures were published . |