Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] for the first time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The statutory recognition of auditors ' resignation occurred for the first time in the Companies Act 1976 , prior to which resignation would have constituted a de facto breach of contract . |
| 2 | British sport began for the first time to embrace commercialism , although the process was cautious and gradual . |
| 3 | A separation appeared for the first time between design and production . |
| 4 | Our local PFA Inspector Pat Barker kept a keen eye on our progress , monitoring our workmanship at all the recognised stages throughout the build , and on 8 March this year , Midge 's propeller turned for the first time under her own engine power , being a Monday , I naturally had the day as holiday ! |
| 5 | ‘ By the beginning of 1960 ’ , he wrote , ‘ it could no longer be denied that certain parts of London at night were dominated by a new spirit of insecurity ’ : ‘ juvenile delinquency had for the first time in Britain become elevated to the status of a national problem ’ . |
| 6 | The general election was held on 18 June , and election and examination fever coincided for the first time since 1945 . |
| 7 | DEFIANT Dave Beasant last night spoke for the first time since his week-end goalkeeping torment and insisted : ‘ I still want to play for Chelsea . ’ |
| 8 | But also by 1967 , expenditure on education had for the first time in history equalled that on defence . |
| 9 | And there the momentum of his pursuit faltered for the first time . |
| 10 | Although the accommodation remained spartan with bunk beds arranged in segregated dormitories , nevertheless , at a cost fixed at 1/ per night plus a shilling for breakfast , extended holidays in the countryside became for the first time a practical possibility for thousands previously denied them . |
| 11 | The man in the chair spoke for the first time . |
| 12 | The other Senate seat up for election went for the first time to the PAN , which won 17.7 per cent of the vote and secured 92 seats in the Chamber of Deputies . |
| 13 | His voice trembled for the first time . |
| 14 | If only — the thought came for the first time — if only she had stayed with Papa ! |
| 15 | On Aug. 16 , as a shipment of UN relief arrived for the first time in the southern port of Kismayo , a local militia which had been hired to protect it stole 600 tonnes of food and fuel . |
| 16 | The old man spoke for the first time . |
| 17 | MIA Farrow 's adopted daughter spoke for the first time yesterday of her ‘ wonderful ’ affair with Woody Allen . |
| 18 | The Russian spoke for the first time . |
| 19 | America 's four-jet airliner flew for the first time on July 15 , 1954 and immediately revolutionised the world of mass air travel . |
| 20 | Of these only the last item appeared for the first time in this volume . |
| 21 | It is suggestive that during his reign military uniform became for the first time permissible dress at the Habsburg court . |
| 22 | Even the Ottoman empire began for the first time in its history to acquire some more or less clearly defined boundaries when , after the treaty of Carlowitz of 1699 , joint commissions were set up to demarcate its frontiers with Habsburg territory . |
| 23 | Last night , members of Pringle 's family spoke for the first time about police handling of the siege . |
| 24 | It introduced greater facilities for synthesis , and the Areas Table appeared for the first time . |
| 25 | From 1865 , however , the foreign office had for the first time a department concerned entirely with commercial affairs . |