Example sentences of "first time [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the first time professional ballet was seen in South Africa , and the performances caused much excitement . |
| 2 | Our findings demonstrate for the first time increased expression of ET-1 in the lungs of patients with CFA compared with the lungs of subjects without CFA . |
| 3 | For the first time agricultural spending , at ECU32,150 million ( compared with ECU35,350 million in 1992 ) , would account for less than half of expenditure . |
| 4 | It is suggestive that during his reign military uniform became for the first time permissible dress at the Habsburg court . |
| 5 | Anyway , it comprised of 4 or 5 short/quick one touch passes between Soton players — down the side to Batty , first time left foot cross — Deane rose and a superb little glancing header floated in at the far post … off the post . |
| 6 | From 1771 onwards a series of codes for different provinces , beginning with Silesia , had set for the first time clear official limits to what the lords could demand of their peasants , especially in terms of labour-services . |
| 7 | English actress Julie Christie has been co-starring with Canadian Donald Sutherland in ‘ The Railway Station Man ’ , a rural love story set in Donegal and directed by Britain 's Michael Whyte , American Ned Beatty recently completed his starring role as Irish tenor Josef Locke in ‘ Hear My Song ’ , directed by first time British director Peter Chelsom . |
| 8 | Seacontrol represents the first time on-board maintenance software has been made commercially available to the shipping industry by a marine coatings supplier . |
| 9 | As it turned out the final Report , published in 1889 after almost five years of investigation , did embody a number of recommendations regarding the education of deaf children in future Education Acts , thus setting out for the first time proper legislation with regard to compulsory entry , ages of admission , the length of education , the size of classes , and even that Principals/Headmasters of boarding institutions had to reside on the premises . |
| 10 | The England manager chose the final moment in a long line of defeats — the eight wicket one-day hammering by Sri Lanka on Saturday — to admit for the first time fundamental policy errors . |