Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] [prep] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time an overseas crew from South Africa is competing for the first time . |
| 2 | And the whole market — dominated by six firms including Argos and Great Universal Stores — is shrinking for the first time in years . |
| 3 | ‘ This genuine shortage is occurring for the first time ever . |
| 4 | He/she must not only offer an accurate description of the death-like oppressiveness of the capitalist world as it is developing in the first half of the twentieth century , but must also depict accurately and without facile romanticism or glib sentimentality , the angry and determined political struggle of men and women refusing to acquiesce to the oppressive forces of capitalist society . |
| 5 | ( Freud is writing in the first decade of the twentieth century , about men and women in the middle- and upper-middle-class Austria who would have been brought up in the latter part of the nineteenth century . ) |
| 6 | Long-term unemployment , defined as people out of work for more than a year , is rising for the first time in five years . |
| 7 | Er Er this motion is not an attempt to preempt applications Mr Chairman come before us that 's Mr said time is indicating for the first time that er September might possibly be months . |
| 8 | What made it ten times worse , you see , was that Lavinia had strongly resisted Isabel 's coming in the first place . |
| 9 | This is playing of the first order . |
| 10 | THE number of marriages between a divorcee and someone who is marrying for the first time is on the slide . |
| 11 | ( Short , happy , slightly humorous speech when the groom is marrying for the first time to a divorced woman . ) |
| 12 | Home ownership in America is falling for the first time since the Depression , just as the savings-and-loan collapse has made the government the largest single owner of property after foreclosing on bankrupt thrifts . |
| 13 | The horse is leaving ‘ home ’ so make sure that he is going forward and is concentrating on the first fence ahead . |