Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] for the first time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under a new law , proposed during the fifth session of the eighth National Assembly ( which convened in Hanoi on June 20-30 , 1989 ) , non-CPV members were allowed to stand as candidates for the first time . |
| 2 | Of birds for the first time ever heard , |
| 3 | and at the end of the national hunt racing season … celebrations for Gloucestershire 's top stables … trainer David Nicholson reached a century of winners for the first time and champion jockey Richard Dunwoody finished with 173 … a record year for them both |
| 4 | She also looked great — out of dungarees for the first time and into a becomingly simple black dress . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The seminars , which will be held in Dundee and Glasgow , will focus on the second phase of general SVQs , though they may also include workshops for centres wanting to pilot the first batch of awards for the first time . |
| 7 | Their most pressing concern was the seven-year-old Iran-Iraq war , and the Palestine question was pushed to the bottom of the list of priorities for the first time in the history of the Arab League . |
| 8 | She sobs loudly in his arms , relieved of the company of strangers for the first time . |
| 9 | Under the Government 's fund-holding initiative , doctors have control over their own spending on behalf of patients for the first time . |
| 10 | The colonisation of new land , and its demarcation into private estates , created thousands of miles of boundaries for the first time . |
| 11 | He was able to provide information on age , sex , and growth of whales for the first time without killing , touching , marking , or molesting a single animal . |
| 12 | The Reform Act of 1832 laid the foundations of electoral democracy by tidying up the system — for instance , getting rid of ‘ rotten boroughs ’ , small or almost non-existent places that could return MPs — and setting up a register of voters for the first time . |
| 13 | From him , I heard of leys for the first time , and learned that he had found alignments of tree clumps in the countryside around his home . |
| 14 | As Nell followed , the rows of screens for the first time were blank , showing no signs of life . |
| 15 | He felt like an infant staggering uncertainly out of doors for the first time into the infinitude of the universe . |
| 16 | By Tuesday , he was able to venture out of doors for the first time since arriving home , late and ailing , on Thursday night . |
| 17 | It 's difficult to think about things for the first time in the heat of the moment , so plan it out now . |
| 18 | This was the classic showman speaking and on this occasion he was directing his remarks directly at those intellectuals whom his films had brought into cinemas for the first time . |
| 19 | More than three-quarters of the requested items which were at binding were serial parts being bound into volumes for the first time . |
| 20 | A chapel-reared Cornish boy , he was far from home , working in Salisbury , drinking in pubs for the first time in his life , sleeping rough in a wood . |
| 21 | ‘ I just want to get this season over and start from fresh again , ’ added the ring-rusty world No 55 , also forced to play in glasses for the first time . |
| 22 | As we prayed for him it was clear that the Holy Spirit was touching him powerfully , and he began to speak in tongues for the first time . |
| 23 | Later on in the morning , a class of 15 and 16 year olds is painting in oils for the first time . |
| 24 | By the second half of the 1980s , total spending on African education had exceeded that for whites for the first time , though Africans make up 70 per cent of the population and whites only 17 per cent . |
| 25 | Earlier , as the government and ANC took steps at the weekend to prepare for South Africa 's first all-race elections , President FW de Klerk gave cabinet posts to non-whites for the first time in South Africa 's history and got rid of white ministers said to be reluctant to back his sweeping apartheid reforms . |
| 26 | At the same time governing bodies were made accountable to parents for the first time . |
| 27 | The youngster of today who comes to grips for the first time with a personal computer little imagines the wealth of mathematical inventiveness invested in the design of the software and in the electronic circuitry itself . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Its subsidiaries , including interests in financial services , personal pensions , in collaboration with Colonial Mutual , and investment management , contributed to profits for the first time . |
| 30 | Before Christmas many of the shops had to open on Sundays for the first time just to try to make up for the terrible year . |