Example sentences of "first time [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first time no government ministers were included , and only Gorbachev and Ivashko remained from the old politburo . |
| 2 | We should never have got rid of the little Fiat we used to have which started first time every time and if anything did go wrong you could fix it with an elastic band or a bit of string , Gianluigi used to say , although personally I 'm hopeless with machinery . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ? ) , |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The pace picks up towards the end : Bolam 's hair goes awry , and for the first time a sense of desperation enters his acting . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | This will establish for the first time a knowledge of the process by which characteristic feature of the modern metropolis emerged . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | It 's the first time a licence has been refused because of animal welfare . |
| 18 | AI believes this may be the first time a poll has shown such opposition . |
| 19 | It 's not the first time a lifeboat has been based in the bay . |
| 20 | The first time a boy kissed her , she thought he was being charitable and told him he did n't have to . |
| 21 | As he said it for the first time a smile flickered across his face , and in that instant his features were totally transformed . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It was the first time a man in England has been charged with such an offence . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The deal marks the first time a Test match will be shown live , in full , from the sub-continent . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |