Example sentences of "[vb -s] that for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her eleventh novel , Gwendolen , has just been published and she says that for the first time she is writing for her soul . |
| 2 | She now does yoga , and says that for the first time in her life she wakes up feeling calm and generally finds that thinking positively works . |
| 3 | Sales of prime London properties are picking up and the latest quarterly bulletin from the London Research Centre shows that for the first time in over a year , average prices have not fallen . |
| 4 | The petition was accompanied by one from the magnates , who also sought the withdrawal of the tax on wool : it appears that for the first time since the Ordinances of 1310–11 the commons and the magnates were joining together to seek concessions and measures of reform from the king . |
| 5 | This means that for the first one the doubt is ‘ simple ’ and can be cleared up in a straightforward way , but for the second it is ‘ compound ’ and needs much greater care . |
| 6 | This means that for the first time doctors may be able to tell if an infected person who feels well is in danger of becoming ill , so that they can try to do something to prevent this . |
| 7 | The new draft Directive means that for the first time , EC legislation formally recognises Scottish Vocational Qualifications . |
| 8 | The company claims that for the first time C++ developers will be able to reuse existing non object-oriented applications , by re-engineering C and Cobol code into objects . |
| 9 | The experiment with actinomycin suggests that for the first 3 hours or so LTP does not depend on gene transcription . |