Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [prep] the first time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marcel , the first person narrator of the novel , meets the writer Bergotte for the first time . |
| 2 | ‘ Heavens no , ’ agreed Julia , thinking about the Easter plans for the first time that evening . |
| 3 | Boots The chemist are to open pharmacy concessions for the first time in seven JS branches in late July . |
| 4 | Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt 's excellent book , The Bomber Command War Diaries tell us that on the night of 23/24 September Bomber Command for the first time concentrated its main bomber strength on one city — Berlin . |
| 5 | Minister of Science William Waldegrave , may have released the first major UK government White Paper on science and technology for over 10 years yesterday , but information technology professionals need n't hold their breath : while Waldegrave seems to think we should count ourselves lucky because we 've got our own research council for the first time , it would be more truthful to say we 've been stuffed into the miscellaneous section of the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council , along with the electronic , electrical and communications industries ; our body , together with the Particle Physics and Sciences Research Council , will replace the Science and Engineering Research Council ; as a result , we will benefit ‘ from the same building of bridges between research bodies and industry ’ as the rest of the reorganised bodies and should experience interaction at an earlier stage — on the Japanese and German model . |
| 6 | The King meets with opposition leaders for the first time . |
| 7 | TWO players were sent off and four others booked as Antwerp , Belgium 's oldest club , reached the semi-finals of a European club competition for the first time . |
| 8 | And then , of course , only on the day after you took the car to the car wash for the first time in months . |
| 9 | Foreign investors were allowed direct access into domestic stock markets for the first time from June 5 . |
| 10 | The impasse was eventually broken after the Prime Minister invoked an arcane constitutional device to create more PCP Senators [ see p. 37705 ] , and used a closure motion for the first time within Canada 's upper chamber . |
| 11 | ‘ Live ’ delivered a hit single in ‘ No Woman No Cry ’ and put Marley into the album charts for the first time . |
| 12 | It was under Dick Graham that Palace won promotion to Division Two to leave the lower reaches of the Football League for the first time in 39 years . |
| 13 | Scott , revealing details of the 500-page bid document for the first time , insisted the big selling point was the proximity of the sports venues to the competitors ' village , which would be in a canalside setting in the heart of the city . |
| 14 | Now available by mail order for the first time ( call for a brochure ) , we have 30 Make-Up Removers worth £7.25 each to give away . |
| 15 | In a major government reorganization in Croatia on Aug. 1 Tudjman included opposition politicians for the first time in a new " government of democratic unity " which continued to be dominated by the Croatian Democratic Union ( HDZ ) with 11 out of 27 posts . |
| 16 | A PUBLIC inquiry today could make legal history as the Nature Conservancy Council attempts for the first time to purchase compulsorily a farmer 's land to protect a rich wildlife habitat . |
| 17 | This established licensing hours for the first time , and put brewers on the defensive . |
| 18 | Moreover luck sometimes prevented the family conflicts of the Merovingians from getting out of hand : accident of survival meant that the kingdom was united in 558 , when Chlothar I was left as the only surviving son of Clovis , and was able to unite the regnum Francorum for the first time in forty-seven years . |
| 19 | The end of a 10-year drought : David Gower hits the winning runs and England have beaten Pakistan in a Test match for the first time since 1982 |
| 20 | The end of a 10-year drought : David Gower hits the winning runs and England have beaten Pakistan in a Test match for the first time since 1982 |
| 21 | These will allow Chinese enterprises independent decision-making powers for the first time and allow them to compete with each other in the marketplace . |
| 22 | He believes if Jones , Paul Moriarty and skipper Young tame the visitors ' more experienced forwards , Wales ' gifted backline can upset England on home soil for the first time since 1949 . |
| 23 | Alongside the new universities themselves , starting their degree courses from scratch and employing large numbers of sometimes rather dubiously qualified new lecturers , there was a parallel development in the polytechnics , many of them offering degree courses for the first time , and devising courses in subjects such as literature , languages , and philosophy that had nothing whatever to do with the technology-based courses for which they had first been invented . |
| 24 | We can also see some colleges and institutes of higher education , in trying to develop distinctive degree courses for the first time , taking pride in acting as ‘ coherent , self-critical academic communities ’ when difficult choices are made in determining where effort and scarce resources are best applied in the short term . |
| 25 | Ridge rovers arriving in South Wales for the first time probably have firm plans to tackle the splendid routes in the Black Mountains and , of course , the classic escarpment topped by Pen y Fan in the Brecon Beacons . |
| 26 | The Polish government has published figures on lead emissions for the first time . |
| 27 | The need to prepare the economies for unemployment and social security provision for the first time will be the important issues . |
| 28 | The Santa Cruz Operation Inc is sidling up even closer to Compaq Computer Corp , following the signing of a worldwide OEM agreement which will see Compaq putting all SCO products through its marketing channels for the first time . |
| 29 | Ian McMillan , from Industrial Engineering , and James Mitchell , from Crabtree Weaving section , took the JR Walker Trophy for the first time in the competition . |
| 30 | Being £1,000 cheaper than the more powerful direct injection diesel Audi 80 TDI , the 80 TD brings the Audi 80 saloon within reach of many diesel buyers for the first time . |