Example sentences of "first time [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , during his three years in exile he came for the first time into close contact with the main exponents of the Gregorian ideal , and we must ask how far and in what circumstances he adopted the phraseology of the Gregorian reformers ; then , whether he adopted the theoretical structure which their favourite phrase libertas ecclesiae expressed , or adopted the phrase for use only in exceptional circumstances and for special reasons . |
| 2 | For the first time during final assembly , individual workshops prepare sub-assemblies for one aspect of the car , i.e. driving position , engine and chassis , glazing , seats , bumpers etc . |
| 3 | One of these was a gradual trend towards laying off workers in their early sixties in the belief that age made them less efficient , and the introduction for the first time of fixed retirement ages . |
| 4 | Khayyam was not one of the greatest Persian poets , nor the best loved in Persia , but Fitzgerald translation made large Western audience aware for the first time of Persian poetry . |
| 5 | During a visit to Beijing , the Chinese capital , Abdullah al-Kuwaizi , the Deputy Minister of Finance and National Economy , announced on April 19 , 1989 , the establishment for the first time of formal trade relations with China . |
| 6 | From next April , tax relief will be available for the first time for individual training expenses — encouraging a further increase in the commitment of individuals to train to improve their future career prospects . |
| 7 | While this may be socially desirable in the LFA , until the reduction and partial elimination of capital grants in December 1984 , there were fears that pastures and meadows ( hitherto traditionally managed ) , small wetlands and areas of rough grazing on small farms in the UK uplands would be subject for the first time to agricultural intensification . |
| 8 | MOSCOW — Huge amounts of computerised information held in Soviet data bases are to be made available for the first time to Western research , it was agreed at a conference for Western and Eastern scientists here , writes Justin Arundale . |
| 9 | Fighting spread for the first time to Serbian territory on Nov. 5 and 6 , when Croatian forces were reported to have attacked Serbian villages . |
| 10 | Finally , Yusuf advanced and the thunderous roll of the Moorish drums was heard for the first time on Spanish soil . |
| 11 | Previous application of this method ( viz. a 1-stage Delphi with interactive feedback ) earlier in this research programme has shown that many employers embarking often for the first time on strategic employment policy-making require some means of obtaining confirmation they are on the right lines . |
| 12 | ZeeBeeCee has gained a court order allowing access to Jessamyn Bonney 's juvenile records , stored in the central infonet of the Bruyce-Hoare Agency , and we can exclusively reveal for the first time on national television that evidence which has come to light since her 1992 parricide hearing has suggested that she was indeed guilty of the murder of her father , a crime for which she was acquitted in court on the testimony of one Andrew Jean , since deceased , a gangcult associate and known perjurer . ’ |
| 13 | When Henry V landed for the first time on French soil nearly forty years later , it was soon put beyond doubt that in his artillery he possessed a potential match-winner . |
| 14 | He looked at her for the first time with real unease . |
| 15 | One hundred patients of a total of 335 presenting for the first time with variceal haemorrhage were recruited into the study and randomised . |
| 16 | It struck her as comical , so soon after the expressions of revulsion and outrage on coming face to face for the first time with sexual deviance . |
| 17 | There are promotions for David Hunt to the employment department , for Gillian Shephard to agriculture and for John Redwood , the Thatcherite and cerebral local-government minister who joins the cabinet for the first time as Welsh secretary . |
| 18 | They played together a couple of evenings every month , but after that first time by mutual consent they never made love in her house , any more than they did in his . |
| 19 | The weakness of the domestic economy has , for the first time in recent memory , turned the affluent Japanese consumer into a bargain hunter . |
| 20 | It is the first time in recent memory she has missed the ceremony . |
| 21 | THE QUEEN Mother yesterday pulled out of her second public appearance in as many days , missing the opening day of Royal Ascot for the first time in recent memory . |
| 22 | Thus , for the first time in recent history , Great Britain fielded a mass army in Europe , in contrast to her earlier , limited excursions , supported by her navy . |
| 23 | The bond can be exchanged after 45 days and until November 30 1993 , into 1.175 IBM Corp shares — the first time in recent history that IBM has made an acquisition for shares . |
| 24 | Table 2.2 demonstrates changes over the seventeen years to 1987 : western Europe took over half our exports for the first time in recent history ; by 1987 , the EC alone took virtually half , and most other destinations , except for North America , had declined in relative importance . |
| 25 | It produces the country 's best international show-jumpers , with invited riders from France , Germany , Switzerland , Spain , Ireland , U.S.A. , Holland , Austria , Sweden , Finland , Belgium and , for the first time in recent history , South Africa . |
| 26 | SOARING sales mean workers at car giant Rover are being asked to work Sundays for the first time in living memory . |
| 27 | The Congress finished its work with the adoption in principle , by 1,723 votes to four with 13 abstentions , of a statement on human rights and freedoms which , according to Le Monde of Sept. 7 , would place the individual above the collective for the first time in Soviet history , if implemented in legislation by the new Supreme Soviet . |
| 28 | For the first time in European history the Jews were not only persecuted , they were massacred . |
| 29 | Soon after the eruption last year , Brian Toon , of the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffatt Field , California , was quoted as saying , ‘ this is really the first time in modern meteorology that something has happened that has the potential to affect the climate . |
| 30 | It was the first time in American history that serving officers did not dare say what their commander-in-chief had told them to do . |