Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [adj] time [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coatings company International Lory has for the second time completed a year without a single lost day accident . |
| 2 | For example , a recent act of Parliament has for the first time enabled citizens to own and operate radio stations . |
| 3 | For example , a recent act of Parliament has for the first time enabled citizens to own and operate radio stations . |
| 4 | The UK government has for the first time ruled out the award of oil and gas exploration licences in certain areas on environmental grounds . |
| 5 | While attempting to give financial autonomy to schools the government has at the same time failed to help the market — that is , parents and pupils — to decide what subjects should be studied . |
| 6 | It has in the past happened that a client has been advised by the agent to amend an order , has entirely agreed with that advice , but has at the same time pointed out that his authority does not extend to giving a final decision , and this can be awkward . |
| 7 | A wife I 'd met for the first time filled up |
| 8 | Delegations attending for the first time came from Cambodia , Egypt ( with 250,000 French-speakers ) , Bulgaria ( with 350,000 ) , and Romania ( with 1,100,000 ) . |
| 9 | The authority had not found out about the incident involving the cadets at Leek until they were in hospital , but tests on the water taken about the same time showed toxics from algae present . |
| 10 | Although this amounted to little more than a restatement of previously-agreed policies , including the Clean Air Act of 1990 [ see ED no 41/42 ] and the planned phase-out of chlorofluorocarbons , it did for the first time set a tentative target , suggesting that emissions of greenhouse gases in the year 2000 would be " equal to 1987 levels " . |
| 11 | Other systems also being tried at the same time included dehydration and injection techniques , the latter to be perfected by a surgeon called Ruysch ( 1665–1717 ) , Professor of Anatomy at Amsterdam . |
| 12 | In France , a poll taken around the same time showed 75% approval for the Americans in the Gulf . |
| 13 | The deputy chairman of the UN Special Commission on Iraq , Robert Galucci , said in Bahrain on Jan. 14 that Iraq had for the first time admitted " pursuing a production-scale centrifuge enrichment programme rather than simply a research programme " , after UN inspectors confronted Iraqi officials with evidence supplied by Germany showing the involvement of German firms in this programme . |
| 14 | South African authorities have for the first time permitted Mr Nelson Mandela to talk by telephone with exiled leaders of the African National Congress from the prison where he is held near Cape Town . |
| 15 | For instance , we are well-used to integrating vocational assessments in care , but for the general SVQ we have for the first time found it necessary to set up meetings with colleagues delivering modules in numeracy , information technology and budget financing . |
| 16 | Scientists at La Jolla University , California , have for the first time established a link between nitrous oxide and the nylon industry . |
| 17 | I have at the same time suggested that Benjamin 's own aesthetics were very much a postmodernist aesthetics . |
| 18 | Other northerners knighted at the same time included two Westmorland men , Christopher Moresby of Windermere and Thomas Strikland of Sizergh . |
| 19 | Other northerners knighted at the same time included two Westmorland men , Christopher Moresby of Windermere and Thomas Strikland of Sizergh . |
| 20 | But if , as is proposed , the core is to start to be taught from the primary schools , upwards , then it makes sense to introduce at the same time graded tests in each of the compulsory subjects , English , mathematics , modern languages , and science ( the music examinations could hold their present place as optional ) . |
| 21 | The CARICOM heads of government meeting held at the same time issued an " unequivocal condemnation " of the events in Port of Spain and 300 troops from CARICOM states were flown to the island on Aug. 3 as a " precautionary move " to protect oil installations [ see p. 37648 ] . |