Example sentences of "first time the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the first time the monarch had ever used a Thames passenger ferry — and one of the few occasions when she had arrived at an official engagement by public transport in the UK . |
| 2 | It was the first time the company has been prosecuted for a hygiene offence . |
| 3 | Particularly satisfying has been the successful assault on the German market where for the first time the company has secured orders for filament-wound rollers . |
| 4 | For the first time the problem of synthesising diamonds could now be expressed in terms of the ways the atoms were arranged and rearranged ( Figure 2 ) . |
| 5 | It is the first time the Service has explained its stand in the dispute , which led to serious disturbances among loyalist inmates in the Maze . |
| 6 | It 's the first time the Rectory Farm at Stanton St John has been hit by strawberry rustlers . |
| 7 | For the first time the survey , which covered 1,160,000 sq km ( i.e. two-thirds of the entire forest area in Europe ) included data on forest damage in the western part of the Soviet Union ( i.e. Byelorussia , the Kaliningrad region and Ukraine ) in addition to Estonia and Lithuania which had been included in earlier years . |
| 8 | For the first time the Bill gives galleries powers of disposal , subject to certain conditions — or rather it gives such powers to the Tate and the national portrait gallery , but not to the Wallace collection or the national gallery . |
| 9 | This was the initial running of the world 's oldest Classic under commercial sponsorship , and for the first time the winner 's prize money topped £100,000 . |
| 10 | For the first time the laughter was extinguished from the little face so like Jack 's , and in its place was resignation and courage , and a wisdom far beyond his years . |
| 11 | So for , for the first time the revolution is given an economic goal in that it is to set up industrialization and in a sense the ending of feudalism and the creation of industrialization emerge as , as the two forces whereas up until now it has been feudalism perhaps egalitarianism . |
| 12 | We talked about other things , and I told for the first time the story of how I lost the job at Drummonds , which made us both laugh so much the nurses came running with shocked looks to shut us up . |
| 13 | Last night 100 families were being housed in bed and breakfast accommodation the first time the total has reached three figures . |
| 14 | For the first time the treaty formally recognized the rights of the 500,000-strong German minority in Poland to their own language , culture , family names and religion . |
| 15 | Robyn could smell the freshness of his cologne , see the way his eyes crinkled at the corners , notice for the first time the thickness of his lashes , the way his ebony hair would curl if allowed to grow long . |
| 16 | She smiled warmly , and not for the first time the girl thought how incredibly lovely her mistress was . |
| 17 | For the first time the girl seemed to lose her self-possession . |
| 18 | This is not the first time the issue of control has come up in this column but because yours is a sign that tends to resist going with the flow , all too often you meet people and circumstances that appear to block your path . |
| 19 | Through it , government addressed for the first time the issue of the long-stay population in all the institutions for elderly , mentally handicapped and mentally ill people . |
| 20 | For the first time the exercise will involve the whole of higher education — some 150 universities , polytechnics and colleges of further education which will come under the new Higher Education Funding Councils . |
| 21 | This was the first time the impunity of the police had been challenged in Guatemala . |
| 22 | That was the first time the Hound appeared , my sons . |
| 23 | ‘ I did wonder , ’ I said , ‘ but it wo n't be the first time the map 's been wrong . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ And the first time the door to the viewing room was locked in some way ? ’ |
| 25 | For the first time the possibility of a serious non-white challenge to the nations of Europe or the United States was raised . |
| 26 | This year was the first time the competition had taken place in England . |
| 27 | For the first time the public have been allowed in to watch the floodlit night feeding of thousands of birds at the Slimbridge Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust . |
| 28 | The Special Discount is being continued on the same basis ( see page 2 ) and for those policies which qualify for the first time the increase is offset by approximately 6% . |
| 29 | This was almost the first time the bloke had spoken to me about anything , never mind about 10,000m running , and here he was telling me how to run tactically . |
| 30 | IN referring to the Chilean Order of Merit awarded to Mr Harold Pinter , Mandrake ( March 29 ) stated that this is the first time the honour has been bestowed upon a playwright or , indeed , upon an ‘ intellectual ’ of any description . |