Example sentences of "be for the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is then argued , that , this being so , there is no consideration for the agreement at all , and that it is an agreement for a voluntary gift on certain conditions ; but , looking at the agreement , we find , not a mere proviso , but an express agreement by the plaintiff to pay £1 towards a certain ground-rent , which apparently has been for the first time apportioned , and to pay it to the defendant , who is , I presume , liable to the whole ground-rent . |
| 2 | Young people with learning difficulties are for the first time fully included in all the provisions of youth support services rather than being treated under separate legislation . |
| 3 | Now , however , having regard to what was learnt by C.N.L. 's counsel whilst sitting in court during the successful appeal , they are for the first time in a position to raise a plea of justification . |
| 4 | That grant is ring fenced , it can only be spent on community care defined elements , it includes the recognition that as well as buying care for people , you are for the first time , er , assessing people 's needs . |
| 5 | These media , which are for the present time state-owned , are therefore expected to devote a significant amount of air-time to the running of radio schools and the promotion of mass adult literacy education , as well as the study of other basic subjects . |
| 6 | These media , which are for the present time state-owned , are therefore expected to devote a significant amount of air-time to the running of radio schools and the promotion of mass adult literacy education , as well as the study of other basic subjects . |
| 7 | For 30 per cent this would be for the first time , yet almost half our sample are installing an additional or replacement shower . |
| 8 | Maidstone 's the place to be for the first time ever , all four candidates are female . |
| 9 | It might be for the last time . ’ |
| 10 | She climbed into the carriage knowing it would perhaps be for the last time ; maintaining the horses and the grooms was a luxury she would have to forgo . |
| 11 | She knew that if she were whirled down again it would be for the last time . |
| 12 | This is my speech , not the hon. Gentleman 's , and I warn him that if I give way now it will be for the last time . |
| 13 | All this depended on the fact that the Romans were for the first time in the law of succession experiencing an ‘ open ’ system . |
| 14 | The Bioscope very much approved of the description of the movies as ‘ the drama of the masses , and went on to argue that the whole beauty of the movies was that they were for the first time providing amusement , ‘ the greatest factor in the life of.the masses ’ , to ‘ the millions ‘ who had been ‘ passed over for so many years and considered of no account ’ . |
| 15 | This demand was indeed radical since women were for the first time trying to achieve some independence as persons and to exercise some power as individuals in their own right . |
| 16 | Indeed , restaurants , cafes and licensed premises which sell liquor for consumption on the premises ( e.g. pubs and wine bars ) were for the first time was the 1987 Use Classes Order brought within a stated class . |
| 17 | As the Vice-chairman , who was re-elected , was also deaf , the two elected leaders of the BDA were for the first time deaf . |
| 18 | Women were for the first time identified in their own right as potential land reform beneficiaries . |
| 19 | All of them had safely negotiated Becher 's for the second time . |
| 20 | Natural water from two 300ft boreholes beneath Huddersfield , West Yorkshire , is for the first time to be bottled , and sold to France . |
| 21 | Your brain is for the first time having to struggle and strive and keep really busy , which is great . |
| 22 | The offence is for the first time triable either way , and is punishable on indictment with either three years ’ imprisonment or a fine and summarily with six months imprisonment and a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum . |
| 23 | The UK government is for the first time to publish environmental conditions attached to the granting of oil drilling licenses . |
| 24 | But to be made a deacon was for the first time to profess before a multitude that the soul undertook the cause of God in a special ministry , and for the first time to feel sent to an apostolic work . |
| 25 | In 1989 the global nature of the drift-net plague was for the first time widely recognised . |
| 26 | Lawrence Stone has put forward a highly influential argument that the eighteenth century saw the rise of the companionate marriage , and that affection between husband and wife was for the first time widely judged as important as economic considerations in marriage This argument has been widely challenged in relation to all classes by historians examining various kinds of evidence from the seventeenth century and earlier The belief that affection as an ideal of marriage was basically invented by the middle and upper classes in the eighteenth century has , however , led some critics into simplistic views . |
| 27 | The month began when the new lunar crescent was for the first time visible again after sunset . |
| 28 | During the Thirties when the streamlined fleet was introduced , the driver was for the first time provided with his own driving cab , complete with folding seat . |
| 29 | It is a typical British beef type and perhaps for that reason its numbers at home are now dangerously low : fewer than 450 breeding cows were registered in 1987 when it was for the first time classified as a rare breed , though in the nineteenth century it had been the mainstay of the Scottish beef industry . |
| 30 | But when , after those two years , the valley had almost imperceptibly widened and there was for the first time , not those black enclosing cliffs , but the vista of a normal life , even of happiness , a landscape over which it was possible to believe the sun might shine , she had become unwittingly embroiled in the racial politics of her school . |