Example sentences of "first time a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | His eldest son , Prince Edward , was made Duke of Cornwall , the first time a dukedom had been conferred in England , and six new earls were created . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ? ) , |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The pace picks up towards the end : Bolam 's hair goes awry , and for the first time a sense of desperation enters his acting . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Sonia Delaunay later expressed this theory in its simplest form : ‘ Pure colours used as planes are juxtaposed in simultaneous contrasts to create for the first time a sense of form , achieved not by clair-obscur , but through the relationship in depth of the colours themselves . ’ |
| 12 | This will establish for the first time a knowledge of the process by which characteristic feature of the modern metropolis emerged . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | It 's the first time a licence has been refused because of animal welfare . |
| 16 | AI believes this may be the first time a poll has shown such opposition . |
| 17 | It 's not the first time a lifeboat has been based in the bay . |
| 18 | The first time a boy kissed her , she thought he was being charitable and told him he did n't have to . |
| 19 | As he said it for the first time a smile flickered across his face , and in that instant his features were totally transformed . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It was the first time a man in England has been charged with such an offence . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The deal marks the first time a Test match will be shown live , in full , from the sub-continent . |
| 26 | This is the first time a unit trust company has had to suspend funds under the Financial Services Act 's pricing regulations , which oblige it to cease trading once an error is suspected . |
| 27 | For the first time a heavyweight championship bout will be judged by three women Patricia Jarman of Las Vegas , Sheila Harmon-Martin of Washington and Jean Williams of Atlantic City , New Jersey . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |