Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [num ord] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | Howell rose to the occasion and during the following nine years Bowdoin was transformed : among other changes , women were admitted for the first time , and hitherto neglected subjects like Afro-American studies added to the curriculum . |
| 32 | Ironically , David Guest 's victory came on the day that television cameras were allowed for the first time to record proceedings in a Scottish court . |
| 33 | Belt loops were specified for the first time , and the khaki trousers were not to bear branch-coloured leg stripes . |
| 34 | Parts of the contents of the manual only came to light as a result of criminal trials following an incident at Orgreave during the strike , at which some of the techniques were implemented for the first time . |
| 35 | Details of the membership of the new " Provisional Free Kuwait Government " ( PFKG ) were released for the first time on Aug. 4 . |
| 36 | Roux 's results were published for the first time in 1888 : three years later I tried to repeat this fundamental experiment on another subject and by a somewhat different method , It was known from the cytological researches of the brothers Hertwig and Boveri that the eggs of the common sea urchin are able to stand well all sorts of rough treatment , and that , in particular , when broken into pieces by shaking their fragments , will survive and continue to cleave . |
| 37 | In 1853 his whole collected works were published for the first time with an introduction in which the editor , George Offor , hailed them as a weapon in the struggle against ‘ the mighty efforts ’ which were then being made ‘ to enthral the country in the Satanic yoke of popery or its dark ill-shapen brother Puseyism ’ . |
| 38 | In the next annual , all first-class scores were published for the first time ; in 1867 the convention began of including the births and deaths of cricketers ; and in 1870 descriptions of matches were contained in the almanack . |
| 39 | Popular elections for the executive President , who serves for a maximum of two consecutive five-year terms , were held for the first time in December 1990 . |
| 40 | Following political reforms in May 1990 which abolished the leading role of the MPRP , multiparty elections were held for the first time in July 1990 , to the Little and Great Hurals , and to local Hurals in the 18 provinces and three municipalities [ see pp. 37609-10 ; p. 37656 ] . |
| 41 | Continuing a process of democratization which began with the election of all 950 members for the Tirupati plenum by the party 's rank and file , elections were held for the first time in more than 20 years for party posts including the 10 elective posts in the party 's most senior decision-making body , the Congress working committee ( CWC ) . |
| 42 | The GRC or " Team MPs " were returned for the first time by the 1988 general election to ensure continued minority representation . |
| 43 | Jasbir Singh was stopped for the second time in two days driving his blue Ford Escort van . |
| 44 | The case against Therese Dunne ( 42 ) , a buyer with Dunnes Stores , was halted for the second time in three months yesterday because of the alleged interference . |
| 45 | Thus Saxony was conquered for a second time . |
| 46 | The case was heard for a second time in mid-1986 , when he was convicted on six counts of espionage and sentenced to life imprisonment , but the verdict was later overturned . |
| 47 | Finally , Yusuf advanced and the thunderous roll of the Moorish drums was heard for the first time on Spanish soil . |
| 48 | It was reburied for the last time in 1973 after the number of visitors was found to be too high for the Cotswold village of Woodchester to cope with . |
| 49 | In France the post of Secretary of State for War was given for the first time to a soldier ( the Maréchal de Belle-Isle ) in 1758 ; and in the second half of the century there was a slow but steady tendency for the most important officials concerned , the intendants d'armées and the contrôleurs des guerres , to be military men . |
| 50 | In the report the former President , Chiang Kai-shek was criticized for the first time for failing to punish the officials responsible for the massacre . |
| 51 | The first PC-5A assembled in India was flown for the first time in August 1941 and one report suggests that fifty were delivered to the Indian Air Force from 1942 , but this has not been confirmed . |
| 52 | The launch of the space shuttle Columbia was delayed for the third time since May following the discovery of a fuel leak near its engines . |
| 53 | At this point I could have gone home , foreseeing a frustrating week ahead full of missed takes ; nevertheless after a few words ( all unprintable ) from Rick the cat rod was recast for a third time . |
| 54 | JANSHER KHAN narrowly avoided a ban but was fined for the second time in six weeks by the International Squash Players Association yesterday — and lost ranking points which may cost him his world No.1 spot . |
| 55 | Fighting was reported for the first time in the east Bosnian towns of Visegrad and Foca , near the Serbian border . |
| 56 | North-East champion Brian Rushworth finished a best-ever 11th in the senior men 's race , which was won for the second time by Commonwealth Games 10,000 metres gold medallist Eamonn Martin , of Basildon . |
| 57 | The Prix de l'Avenir — Marne la Vallée , worth F30,000 was won for the first time by kayak paddler Bernard Bregeon . |
| 58 | Robin Culley was interviewed for the fiftieth time . |
| 59 | Guildford skatepark was demolished and as a result Farnborough was noticed for the first time outside the immediate area . |
| 60 | The 20th session of the World Economic Forum , a meeting of senior economists from some 60 industrialized countries , was held in Davos , Switzerland , on Feb. 1-6 , when the discussion was attended for the first time by representatives from Eastern Europe . |