Example sentences of "the first time a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 AI believes this may be the first time a poll has shown such opposition .
2 The 28-member Consell General de las Valls ( General Council of the Valleys ) , elected for a four-year term , has , since reforms introduced in 1981 , appointed an Executive Council , introducing for the first time a separation between the executive and legislative arms of government .
3 This system , devised by Rentokil 's Research and Development department , offers for the first time a non-chemical , twenty-four hour detection and protection system .
4 The centralized bureaucratic apparatus of the state became subordinated to the interests of the dominant economic groups that were already creating a commercial agriculture and would subsequently promote industrial development : ‘ for the first time a state had been created whose policies and activities were shaped in response to the needs and movement of civil society ’ ( Gamble 1981 : 67 ) .
5 This was the first time a company had been invited to give a product demonstration at the centre and were keen to present the merits of their product .
6 It 's the first time a licence has been refused because of animal welfare .
7 As he said it for the first time a smile flickered across his face , and in that instant his features were totally transformed .
8 It is believed to be the first time a developer has urged the Government to schedule an archaeological site .
9 Attended by representatives from 179 member states , it was marked by the exclusion from the General Assembly of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ( FRY ) — the first time a member state had been removed from its seat , although South Africa had been suspended from the General Assembly in 1974 .
10 Some of these new CD products are aimed squarely at consumer markets , promising for the first time a breakthrough into the same mass market in which audio CDs have been so dramatically successful .
11 In those early days in our relationship , Basil was still adjusting to the Northern scene and I , a callow young teacher , encountering for the first time a man of impeccable manners , charm and sensibility .
12 A man accused of raping his wife has been cleared by a jury at Sheffield Crown Court ; it was the first time a man in England had been charged with such an offence .
13 It was the first time a man in England has been charged with such an offence .
14 Reading Neale 's articles in the immediate context of teaching for the first time a course dangerously titled , ‘ Television Theory ’ ( is there such a thing ? ) ,
15 The deal marks the first time a Test match will be shown live , in full , from the sub-continent .
16 For the first time a tally was kept of the number of items issued to users or consulted by Map Library staff in answering letter enquiries .
17 Noel Lynch , of the Ulster Aviation Society , said : ‘ It 's the first time a reunion like this has taken place .
18 It may be alarmed the first time a bit is put in its mouth , or saddle is put on its back , or it 's girthed up , or mounted , but this anxiety can be ‘ undone ’ or prevented altogether by making sure that the horse is not hurt and by rewarding the horse at the same time .
19 Placement support which at the least minimised the chances that the ex-patient would be evicted from his home or sacked from his job the first time a problem occurred would seem essential .
20 and Q acted upon by unc and unc are essentially the same , we are meeting for the first time a concept of prime importance in algebra , namely that of isomorphism .
21 It 's not the first time a lifeboat has been based in the bay .
22 This will establish for the first time a knowledge of the process by which characteristic feature of the modern metropolis emerged .
23 He came first equal in the foot-race This incident raises for the first time a question which is still being debated two and a half thousand years later : were the Macedonians Greeks ? the orators and propagandists of the fifth and fourth centuries do not help for they contradict each other .
24 ‘ It 's not the first time a child has been attacked by an alsatian — even a crossbreed like this can be savage , ’ said Lee 's father John , 37 .
25 His mother says it 's not the first time a window has fallen out of a school coach , and she 's calling for action to make the buses safe .
26 Derek Polson , a CCG storeman at KG Ethylene Offsite stores , showed he knows all there is to know about fork lift driving when he scored a perfect 100 per cent in his driving test — the first time a driver has achieved the maximum score at Hargreaves Training in Glasgow .
27 The first time a boy kissed her , she thought he was being charitable and told him he did n't have to .
28 as if in recognition of the inherent limitations of the appeals system in this respect , the Magistrates ' Association issued a set of national guide-lines , in 1999 , which set out for the first time a scale of recommended penalties covering the 25 commonest offence types likely to come before the magistrates , together with guidance on the approach to be adopted for different degrees of seriousness .
29 The pace picks up towards the end : Bolam 's hair goes awry , and for the first time a sense of desperation enters his acting .
30 The stage was set for the establishment of thirteen ‘ centres of excellence ’ for the development of full-time surveying — thanks , principally to the foresight and energy of HMI Howard Wainwright — and for the first time a sense of security and confidence was available to the selected centres , as they were encouraged to improve their resources base and to develop exempting RICS diplomas , and subsequently degrees , to be validated by the CNAA .
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