Example sentences of "first time that [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One smack with the whip — the first time that Mill Reef had received such encouragement since the Guineas — and he was through a gap between Hallez and Ortis with less than two furlongs to race . |
| 2 | It indicated for the first time that quantum theory , which had been developed to account for atomic phenomena , still remained successful when applied to nuclei , systems which are a hundred thousand times smaller . |
| 3 | It is the first time that Pizza Hut has opened an Express slice operation in a leisure attraction of Thorpe Park 's size . |
| 4 | Although government and rebels had met briefly in 1987 , it was the first time that army officers had agreed to talk with URNG representatives . |
| 5 | It constituted the first comprehensive review of management development since the mid-1970s , and the first time that management development requirements were discussed nationally in the context of an explicit notion of ‘ management ’ . |
| 6 | I was beginning to understand a lot I 'd never known about before , and for the first time that day Toby 's fatal unthinking words came back to me : " One day she 'll have a baby without ever having understood what love really means . " |
| 7 | It was the first time that night Bob had displayed any real emotion . |
| 8 | The Iranian government had given permission for it to land , the first time that landing rights had been given to US government aircraft in Iran since the revolution of 1979 . |
| 9 | Palace striker Chris Armstrong has confessed for the first time that manager Steve Coppell took a huge gamble signing him . |
| 10 | At the weekend the prime minister , Giuliano Amato , had to reshuffle his cabinet because of the resignation of his finance and health ministers , not the first time that cabinet members have left the government in disgrace . |
| 11 | Not for the first time that morning Erika felt slightly uncomfortable . |
| 12 | This is the first time that accounting standards have had even this amount of statutory backing . |