Example sentences of "for the first time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Statistics on the death penalty in the USSR have been made public for the first time since 1934 . |
| 2 | In these 239 murals , covering a surface of 1,585 square metres , there are traces of many influences making up a popular and forceful imagery : ‘ The codices , pre-conquest sculpture , popular art , the study of living people , the colour of nature as well as the paintings of the misnamed Italian Primitives , together with the modern artistic tendencies to which Rivera himself had contributed during his stay in France , all went to form his own peculiar style , which is apparent for the first time in these frescoes . ’ |
| 3 | A critic walking for the first time into a gallery may describe a colour in a picture as blue ; it will have been the scrupulous task of a conservator to have established that the particular colour in question was Prussian blue , and thus can not date before the eighteenth century . |
| 4 | This enabled some major figures to show work for the first time . |
| 5 | But it 's possible to go way beyond these limited , obvious exercises , and impro can be immensely exciting for young actors , allowing them to grasp situations and emotions imaginatively , perhaps for the first time . |
| 6 | You are entering the market for the first time when you write a letter about yourself to either agent , casting director , producer or director . |
| 7 | It 's very daunting to have to go to an audition for the first time in your life . |
| 8 | All problems resolved in one go because now for the first time question of optimum distance becomes an issue for the viewer . |
| 9 | After that , strangely , for the first time began to feel the glow of achievement . |
| 10 | Having Goldberg in the room with it , as he has been in my life since that first day at college , made me grasp clearly , for the first time , just what it is I have been after , he wrote . |
| 11 | This established licensing hours for the first time , and put brewers on the defensive . |
| 12 | DTS will show the Harris 20–20 Accommodator hotel communication system for the first time at the show . |
| 13 | One of these , PC-Hornet , which has been developed over the past 10 years , will be shown for the first time by McDonnell Douglas . |
| 14 | Her patience in equally short supply , she found herself exasperated , not for the first time , by Peony 's snide tongue . |
| 15 | These efforts have proved — regrettably — to be unsuccessful , and the essay is therefore printed here for the first time without its owner 's permission . |
| 16 | In times past , I had tried to get across to the continent as much as possible , but now , while other people were going abroad for the first time because of all the cheap travel around , I was ( without intending to be anti-social ) doing exactly the opposite and taking a look around the British Isles . |
| 17 | What would everyone back at the cafe have thought when , for the first time in eight months , I had n't shown up for work ? |
| 18 | It may be some months or even years later when , for the first time they over-correct from a practice stall , they experience a substantial reduction in ‘ g ’ loading . |
| 19 | It was the flight path the one man she 'd ever been In Love with had taken her for the first time , after a late film at the Paris Pullman , Kensington to Hampstead at two a.m . |
| 20 | For the first time in all these barren weeks , she wrote poem after poem , cursed that Interflora was n't a 24-hour service and swore never to doubt again . |
| 21 | For the first time , she turned Lucy down for lunch . |
| 22 | For the first time , she felt total despair weld her to the spot . |
| 23 | After she fell in love with Astrid , she became Dragonfly Moonchild , the world her oyster , and for the first time on the daily journey , she saw an adventure playground over the hoardings by the Elephant and Castle , and all the poles were painted like a carousel . |
| 24 | His early involvement in this so-called jazz-poetry — which achieved such popularity in the sixties — shows that Leonard , not for the first time , and certainly not the last , was ‘ where it was all happening ’ before it actually happened . |
| 25 | To this Leonard went , and there he stayed for several months , playing his part in the Pullman household under the terse agreement : ‘ If you stay , you 'll pull your weight , like the rest of us ’ ; ensconced in a lively family atmosphere for the first time in years . |
| 26 | Won a national competition — well a competition in a national magazine — by imagining how to put together three exceptional outfits for three occasions : a job interview , meeting a partner 's parents for the first time , and addressing a conference . |
| 27 | ‘ As you can see , now that we have stopped exposing ourselves to Tramen-exhalation we have developed heads and can talk to each other for the first time . |
| 28 | Offering the blond English boy — the one I was throwing water at now — half my lunch , and sitting there full of gratitude because he smiled , because he liked the taste of the piece of chicken dipped in cumin and saffron and he had smiled at me for the first time . |
| 29 | Prizemoney was awarded for the first time to competing teams in 1976 . |
| 30 | Perhaps , though , his greatest achievement , was in leading tennis back into the Olympic Games for the first time since 1924 . |