Example sentences of "first time [prep] its [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kent , taking full advantage of the disciplinary action that ended the 11 year reign of Essex as boys ' champions , won the Midland Bank Junior County Cup for the first time since its inception in 1967 , at Bournemouth during April . |
| 2 | On May 6-8 , 1990 , the World Jewish Congress met on German soil for first time since its foundation in 1936 . |
| 3 | In elections to the National Assembly on April 26 [ see p. 36019 ] , the DJP emerged as the largest single party but failed to retain an overall majority for the first time since its formation in 1981 . |
| 4 | In elections to the National Assembly on April 26 , 1988 , the DJP emerged as the largest single party but failed to retain an overall majority for the first time since its formation in 1981 [ see pp. 36019-22 ] . |
| 5 | This is the first time since its formation in 1935 that the association has organised a trespass as part of its campaign . |
| 6 | Until then , Cambridge had looked set to record only their second win in 17 years and to take the trophy for the first time since its introduction by the present sponsors in 1987 . |
| 7 | It was the first time since its creation in 1949 that the Wills constituency had returned a non-ALP member . |
| 8 | These efforts have proved — regrettably — to be unsuccessful , and the essay is therefore printed here for the first time without its owner 's permission . |
| 9 | THE QUESTION of just who would even want to be a partner with the US was underlined last night as the American Administration headed for default for the first time in its history . |
| 10 | IBM , which announced a major restructuring after plunging into the red last year for the first time in its history , made an after-tax profit of $595m in the three months ending March . |
| 11 | John Sewell has a unique claim to a place in any gallery of Palace heroes , because he was the popular and talented skipper of the team which took our club into the 1st Division for the first time in its history , back in 1969 . |
| 12 | For the first time in its history , Dovercourt was news . |
| 13 | For the first time in its history , the Conference of European Churches ( CEC ) has decided to give priority to communication issues , placing particular emphasis on media ethics . |
| 14 | For the first time in its history D'Oyly Carte is receiving an Arts Council grant , support denied to the old company because of both its sliding standards of production and its refusal to widen its brief beyond Gilbert and Sullivan . |
| 15 | For the two years before Ford 's buy-up , Aston Martin Lagonda had actually shown a profit ( albeit modest ) , the first time in its history that it had managed to do so two years running . |
| 16 | Five years into his term , in 1972 , the BDDA at long last established headquarters at 38 Victoria Place , Carlisle , so that for the first time in its history the Association was run from its own national office by full-time paid officers . |
| 17 | For the first time in its history the Irish Bank Officials ' Association attended and was represented at the Conference by fifteen Delegates led by the President , Leonard Coote . |
| 18 | Whereas in the 1980s the reforming emphasis was on market economics without political openness ( perestroika without glasnost ) , the China of the mid-to-late 1990s was driven by a concern for political openness for the first time in its history . |
| 19 | As he sees it , the Gulf crisis of August 1990 united the United Nations on a major world issue for the first time in its history . |
| 20 | Not only has this reduced the operating costs , but it has also meant that for the first time in its history the Central Wales Line has been able to support a Sunday service ; indeed in July 1987 , one Sunday saw fourteen train movements , what with BR 's own service train , the various Recreation Ramblers , sponsored by the Sports Council , and two excursion rail tours . |
| 21 | Ironically , given the state of collapse of communism across Eastern Europe and the avowed reformist intentions of the BCP , when Lukanov 's proposals for the composition of his government were approved by the National Assembly on Feb. 8 Bulgaria acquired for the first time in its history an all-communist government . |
| 22 | In July 1989 her party secured a huge electoral breakthrough by causing the LDP to lose control of the upper chamber of the Diet for the first time in its history . |
| 23 | Even the Ottoman empire began for the first time in its history to acquire some more or less clearly defined boundaries when , after the treaty of Carlowitz of 1699 , joint commissions were set up to demarcate its frontiers with Habsburg territory . |
| 24 | For the first time in its history the 1935 Annual Conference of the ILP was attended by a fraternal delegate from the Communist Party , Harry Pollitt , who put forward the policy of " organizational unity " , that is of merging both Parties , now equal in membership , into a single unit . |
| 25 | For the first time in its history a top public school is encouraging GIRLS to play cricket . |
| 26 | The Monster blinked , for the first time in its life it looked shaken . |