Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] for the [adj] 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 | Worried managers made the decision after the computer crashed for the second time in 10 days . |
| 3 | British sport began for the first time to embrace commercialism , although the process was cautious and gradual . |
| 4 | The Legal Services Committee continued in 1992 where it left off in 1991 and in January 1992 representatives of the committee appeared for the third time before the Lord Chancellor 's Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct . |
| 5 | A separation appeared for the first time between design and production . |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 8 | The general election was held on 18 June , and election and examination fever coincided for the first time since 1945 . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | But also by 1967 , expenditure on education had for the first time in history equalled that on defence . |
| 11 | ‘ Good boy , ’ the Italian said for the last time , thickly , breathless . |
| 12 | And there the momentum of his pursuit faltered for the first time . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The man in the chair spoke for the first time . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | His voice trembled for the first time . |
| 17 | If only — the thought came for the first time — if only she had stayed with Papa ! |
| 18 | When the meter man came for the last time he spoke of my aunt , and of the many years he had been to the house , so that he felt himself to be almost an old friend . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The old man spoke for the first time . |
| 21 | MIA Farrow 's adopted daughter spoke for the first time yesterday of her ‘ wonderful ’ affair with Woody Allen . |
| 22 | The Russian spoke for the first time . |
| 23 | The doctor came for the last time and said , ‘ Yes , he 's going now . ’ |
| 24 | America 's four-jet airliner flew for the first time on July 15 , 1954 and immediately revolutionised the world of mass air travel . |
| 25 | Of these only the last item appeared for the first time in this volume . |
| 26 | A YOUNGER set of judges would provide a better image to the public : so says Mr Harold Hewitt , who last weekend sat for the last time , retiring for the second time at the age of 75 . |
| 27 | It is suggestive that during his reign military uniform became for the first time permissible dress at the Habsburg court . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Last night , members of Pringle 's family spoke for the first time about police handling of the siege . |
| 30 | It introduced greater facilities for synthesis , and the Areas Table appeared for the first time . |