Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the first time for " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Even though you 've got funding for the first time for this I do n't want to spend an awful lot on materials . |
| 2 | This disenfranchising policy will be taken a stage further in the political domain , with the linking for the first time for fifty years of the right to vote with the payment of contributions to local government exchequers . |
| 3 | There was a certain rapprochement though , as Mary came down with her things in the back-pack Rufus had lent her and wearing jeans and a pair of sandals for the first time for days . |
| 4 | In a further sign of improving links with black Africa , it was announced that during the weekend of de Klerk 's visit to Kenya , South African Airways flights were routed over west Africa for the first time for nearly 30 years , the government having secured overflight rights with Morocco , Mauritania , Mali and Côte d'Ivoire . |
| 5 | He appears before the court for the first time for what is essentially a domestic assault on his girlfriend . |
| 6 | I am doing this without glasses , and what is so marvellous is that I can play the piano without glasses for the first time for at least 12 years . |
| 7 | ‘ Father Tom , ’ he said , as if he were meeting Carey for the first time for a long time . |
| 8 | A candidate for the first time for the Chair that Alan has left is Sir Jeffrey . |
| 9 | ‘ Once you start saving yourselves for big games and ducking out of tackles , you get into the wrong frame of mind and that is very dangerous , ’ warned Howard , who is hoping to steer his side through to the second round of the FA Cup for the first time for 17 years . |
| 10 | ‘ Once you start saving yourselves for big games and ducking out of tackles , you get into the wrong frame of mind and that is very dangerous , ’ warned Howard , who is hoping to steer his side through to the second round of the FA Cup for the first time for 17 years . |
| 11 | The NRA will introduce legally binding water quality standards for the first time for all types of water under its control ( rivers , canals and estuaries ) . |
| 12 | The long-established tendency for national populations to become more concentrated in large metropolitan centres and their surrounding hinterlands was found to be interrupted , if not broken : major cities were losing population not just from their older inner areas but from their whole city regions , while more remote rural areas with a history of depopulation began to record population growth for the first time for decades ( Morrison and Wheeler , 1976 ; Vining and Strauss , 1977 ; Vining and Kontuly , 1978 ; Brown and Wardwell , 1980 ; Fielding , 1982 ) . |
| 13 | Provincial elections on Aug. 8 in three provinces gave unexpected encouragement to the ruling Peronist party ( Partido Justicialista — PJ ) , which retained control of San Luis and captured San Juan province for the first time for 18 years ; the opposition Radical Party ( UCR ) retained control of Río Negro . |
| 14 | I read them both again erm last year for the first time for many years , and I found Herodotus much the better of the two , because Herodotus was prepared to be curious about everything . |
| 15 | In particular , the Soviet Union secured ‘ most favoured nation ’ access to the US market for the first time for fifty years . |