Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [is] [adv] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a mental health charity says it 's not the first time such an incident has occurred . |
| 2 | His mother says it 's not the first time a window has fallen out of a school coach , and she 's calling for action to make the buses safe . |
| 3 | Hannah Glasse 's book , The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy was first published in 1747 in the 1751 edition appears what is possibly the first English printed recipe for an ice cream . |
| 4 | I 'm twice your age , I ought to take things like this in my stride — Christ only knows it 's not the first time . |
| 5 | Seventy years later the treaty of 1718 between the Emperor Charles VI and the Dutch republic , which fixed the boundaries of their territories in the southern Netherlands , provides what is probably the first example of a frontier being defined not merely in the text of a treaty but also on a map attached to it . |