Example sentences of "[art] first time [conj] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Nov. 14 the white , black and plum-coloured flag of independent Georgia flew officially in Tbilisi ( the capital ) for the first time since a short-lived independent republic had been overthrown by the Bolshevik Red Army in 1921 . |
| 2 | Leonard , who plays more golf in the summer than bowls , partners Irish international senior skip and Lisnagarvey club mate Noel Graham in their bid to win the Irish pairs title for the first time since the brilliant Fisher and Ringland combination won it for the Lisburn club in 1970 . |
| 3 | In a speech on Nov. 12 the United States President Bush announced that US diplomatic representation in Laos would be upgraded to ambassadorial level for the first time since the communist regime came to power in 1975 . |
| 4 | On Dec. 29 the HCR met for the first time since the attempted coup and approved the new Cabinet , whose membership was announced the following day . |
| 5 | The exhibition , which marks the reopening of the palace for the first time since the European Summit conference was held there , runs until 28 March . |
| 6 | For the first time since the civil war began in 1979 the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) , the main guerrilla organization , decided not to disrupt or urge a boycott of the elections and in fact declared a three-day truce on March 9-11 . |
| 7 | For the first time since the Civil War , Industry and Commerce were not lumped together , but each given a separate ministry . |
| 8 | Now , for the first time since the early Seventies the left has no power to tether the leadership on anything significant . |
| 9 | Seeing his eyes move away from her mouth for the first time since the whole affair had begun , she shook her shoulders so that her full , rounded gourds trembled like jelly . |
| 10 | Thus the 1975 Havana Conference of ( for the first time since the Cuban revolution ) all Latin American Communist parties and its rehabilitation of orthodox ideas such as the primacy of the party and the importance of mass organisation , reflected a widespread recognition that the central premise of foquismo was false . |
| 11 | For the first time since the British and Italian colonisation in the 1890s , Somalia was free of external influence , but the inter-clan tensions suppressed and manipulated by Barré erupted into an anarchic and bitter civil war . |
| 12 | Though there were grumblings in the league , Athens was now formally at peace , for the first time since the Persian Wars , having settled her differences both with Sparta , provisionally , and with the Great King . |
| 13 | This was the first time that a powerful Hong Kong organization had openly backed the Chinese side in the dispute . |
| 14 | This was the first time that a criminal prosecution had been taken out against the British nuclear industry . |
| 15 | The recommendation will be put by the ITF 's Rules of Tennis Committee to the Committee of Management in Paris in June and if accepted , it will travel to the Dominican Republic in September for presentation to the ITF Annual General Meeting , where , if it receives a ⅔ majority from delegates in attendance , it will become the first time that a new rule has been introduced since 1989 , when the tie break was standardised . |
| 16 | But this is also the first time that a young doctor takes on daily clinical responsibility for patients ' care , and in reality the service element provided by preregistration house officers underpins the medical care provided in many of our hospitals . |
| 17 | This purchase of a ‘ shell ’ company was the first time that the manoeuvre had been executed and the first time that a bookmaking company had been floated on the Stock Exchange . |
| 18 | This is the first time that a Japanese firm has entrusted the manufacture of high technology consumer electronics equipment to a British firm . |
| 19 | Emperor Akihito and his wife undertook an 11-day tour of Thailand , Malaysia and Indonesia from Sept. 26 , the first time that a Japanese emperor had visited Japan 's immediate neighbours in modern times . |
| 20 | Sistelcom general manager Jesus Prieto said that this will be the first time that a radio-paging service has used satellite for the transmission of messages . |
| 21 | The anniversary report is the first time that a British Government have subjected their own implementation of its policies to such public scrutiny . |
| 22 | It was the first time that a high level meeting of that kind had taken place . |
| 23 | This was the first time that a Conservative MP had publicly urged the government to abolish the zero rate of BAT since the before the last General Election when , in a letter to the Publishers Association , the Conservative Party said that it would not impose VAT on books or periodicals . |
| 24 | It was the first time that a senior Iranian official had visited Iraq since the Iranian revolution of 1979 . |
| 25 | It was the first time that a foreign tourist had been killed since the start of the intifada in 1987 . |
| 26 | It 's the first time that a public exhibition has been staged in a prison . |
| 27 | At the July 1989 gathering of Heads of State on the island of Tarawa , in Kiribati , the South Pacific Forum placed the use of drift-nets in the South Pacific as its most important agenda item — the first time that an environmental issue had topped the agenda at a political gathering in the South Pacific . |
| 28 | This was believed to be the first time that an international bank indicted on US money-laundering charges had agreed to co-operate in an investigation against specific individuals . |
| 29 | Karadjordje had previously received support from local assemblies which had been convened at his request , but this was the first time that an embryonic , partly elected government of Serbia had come into existence . |
| 30 | It marked the first time that an Offshore Division production platform has been used to process oil or natural gas from a third party well . |