Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [num ord] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The IAC reported for the last time in January this year and , under the terms of the 1990 continuation order , the 1987 Act is due to expire on 31 March 1992 . |
| 2 | Early in 1914 , the Board felt it advisable to appoint a House Committee to deal with the day-to-day affairs of the Institution , and the committee met for the first time on 28th April with Mr. W. T. Lansberry in the chair . |
| 3 | The Committee met for the first time in Edinburgh in October 1979 . |
| 4 | The committee met for the first time on August 12 , to define its aims and draw up a policy programme for the future . |
| 5 | It is true , however , that taken as a whole , the 1947 Act created for the first time a comprehensive framework for planning and thereby laid the groundwork for a permanent and highly significant change in the public attitude to private property and its use and development . |
| 6 | And at three or four a.m. that morning , as O and Boy kissed for the second time , the blade of a Stanley knife sliced for the second time across the cheek of a man ( I do n't remember his name , it was n't anyone I knew ) who was at that time on his own , not with anyone , just waiting , on his own , at a bus stop , waiting for a night bus which was due at any minute . |
| 7 | Has the size of your household changed since the last time you bought a kitchen appliance ? |
| 8 | The act established for the first time the statutory definition of a medical practitioner , together with a register and a General Medical Council to watch over conduct and education . |
| 9 | The Group met for the first time in March 1974 with several proposals already before it . |
| 10 | This body met for the first time in May 1989 and elected from its members the bicameral 542-member Supreme Soviet — the working constitutional body responsible for all legislative and administrative matters — consisting of the Soviet of the Union and the Soviet of Nationalities . |
| 11 | The new body met for the first time , in the building of the suspended National Assembly , on April 25 . |
| 12 | In 1851 , which , with symbolic appropriateness , was the year in which a hungry urban population exceeded for the first time the population of the countryside , drainage-minded landlords up from the shires were able to carry away a wealth of interesting ideas from the Great Exhibition . |
| 13 | The drilling provided for the first time borehole information on the age and evolution of the Great Barrier Reef Pore morphology was seen to be a control on both the resistivity and velocity logs , and when combined with Formation Micro Scanner data , should enable laboratory research to provide the basis of enhanced geological interpretation of the downhole geophysical logs . |
| 14 | Knowles , in the final year of a three-year contract , decided to resign on Saturday after the team lost for the eighth time in 10 games . |
| 15 | Kawasaki Steel Corp displayed for the first time the Universe FR fault-resilient computer which it sells under a distribution arrangement with Charles River Data Systems , Framingham , Massachusetts . |
| 16 | The hon. Gentleman referred to the last time it occurred . |
| 17 | Babies were not the only people whose rights were being demanded at the end of the Second World War ; other groups , too , submerged in anonymous poverty through years of unemployment , had in wartime received for the first time their fair share both of work and of food , and were now making it clear that neither malnutrition nor the grinding degradation of worklessness could any longer be tolerated by the ‘ lower classes ’ of the victorious nations . |
| 18 | ‘ Contact made for the first time last night . |
| 19 | GRAHAM TAYLOR last night revealed for the first time what Paul Gascoigne 's return means to him . |
| 20 | When the new Assembly met for the first time on Sept. 24 , seven opposition members refused to take their seats , claiming that the election had been rigged . |
| 21 | Mr Fordy was speaking on the day the town 's magistrates court dealt for the first time with truckers who had ignored the 7.5 tonne weight restriction . |
| 22 | The hardline leadership admitted for the first time it regretted the exodus , admitted there were problems and conceded it might be partly to blame . |
| 23 | Industrialization created for the first time a new political force in the mass of factory workers . |
| 24 | Their obligation to be honest with each other outweighed for the first time whatever they owed to anyone else . |
| 25 | The new parliament convened for the first time on June 9 . |
| 26 | The High Authority met for the first time in the autumn of 1952 , and immediately set about trying to turn the principles of the Treaty of Paris into practical results . |
| 27 | The new Cabinet met for the first time on June 12 and Shamir attempted to head off Arab-led calls for a special UN Security Council team to visit the West Bank and Gaza [ see p. 37443 ] by proposing that a UN envoy , Jean-Claude Aimé , should visit the area in their place . |
| 28 | If not , let's hope we can complete the double over them and get the game postponed for the second time . |
| 29 | Wehave shown for the first time that small intestinal and whole gut transit is faster in patients with chronic radiation enteritis . |
| 30 | In a long statement read out on television after the evening news programme , the Politburo admitted for the first time that it was ‘ not indifferent ’ to the mass exodus of its people to West Germany . |