Example sentences of "[is] the [adj] time [that] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the first time that we have debated the subject in the House , which is a pity . |
| 2 | But it is the first time that we have seen such a phenomenon on a large scale . |
| 3 | This is the first time that she has met with something . |
| 4 | In 30 years of visiting the city this is the first time that I have experienced this state of affairs . |
| 5 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that this is the first time that I have asked him a question since his appointment , and I intend to enjoy it ? |
| 6 | A salesman whose last two months ' returns fall below the required norm may be thought to be failing , until one knows that this is the first time that it has happened in five years . |
| 7 | He has also repeatedly called for the Union Jack to be removed from Australia 's flag , but this is the first time that he has outlined a timetable for change . |
| 8 | You are curious , you are looking for something else , because this is the second time that you have invited me to have a drink , you order cheiro as though you were one of us , you are a foreigner and pretend to speak like us , yet you drink little and then you stay silent and wait for me to speak . |
| 9 | This is the last time that I shall be able to supply them , yet you try to stop me . " |
| 10 | I do n't know because I mean a couple of people have changed cos it 's the only time that they can have it . |
| 11 | I 'm glad there 's somebody 's come up with that one because that 's the only time that you say something a little bit different from the number itself . |
| 12 | And when you write it as a number it 's the only time that you ever put any little letters next to it . |
| 13 | Or if somebody has a premiere it means it 's the first time that they do something . |
| 14 | So that 's what 's been going on in terms of output , in terms of orders already received , orders are up in all mainland regions of the U K. It 's the first time that we 've seen that since er the beginning of the recession and that 's the sense in which we think one can say erm reasonably sort of er straightforwardly that the recovery has indeed spread around the mainland economy . |
| 15 | It was erm it 's the first time that I 'd come across , I mean I 'd been a little bit of experience on , on inland waterways in Windsor er which I 'd lost when I went to Leicester and Lincoln I came back here of course and now we had the North Sea and the docks and erm that was a new area and a , and a really good challenge erm I particularly got involved with , with things like erm the movement of chemicals which was beginning to increase and coming into Felixstowe and , and er and , and er Ipswich erm and when I think back Felixstowe Dock , looking back , ended where the big jumbo tank , the Calor Gas tank is , that , that was the sort of range of Felixstowe Dock in those days . |
| 16 | When 's the next time that we 've got school after ? |