Example sentences of "[prep] the first time [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this study we aimed to record for the first time patterns of UOS motility associated with occurrence of GOR in children referred for evaluation of suspected disorders of oesophageal motility including pathological gastro-oesophageal reflux . |
| 2 | But the testing time has now arrived ; because for the first time posts of leadership in humanities departments are being taken up by a generation of scholars who have been familiar with the computer from their earliest schooldays , scholars who are neither frightened by , nor over-respectful of , the new powers which the computer has brought . |
| 3 | Government officials are admitting for the first time families in mid-value houses of £66,000 — £88,000 are likely to face bills of £600 not £400 as hoped . |
| 4 | For the first time films by and about the indigenous population of North America will be included in the festival . |
| 5 | For the first time details of serious crimes , including all cases of cattle stealing which village headmen chose to report , were investigated by a police force which could in theory take quick and decisive action . |
| 6 | The Disciplinary Committee lost no time in expanding its reports of hearings , issuing for the first time details of the chairman 's comments in the case of Michael Jordan , senior partner of Cork Gully , and Richard Stone , head of corporate finance at Coopers & Lybrand , who were found guilty last year of accepting the appointment of administrator to Polly Peck in spite of a continuing professional interest between PPI and C&L . |
| 7 | The 1988 survey included for the first time results from saliva tests from half the children surveyed ; this double check may have encouraged them to be more honest about their smoking habits . |
| 8 | For the first time representatives from the Soviet Union 's republics ( the Deputy Foreign Ministers of Armenia , Azerbaidjan , Georgia , the Russian Federation and Ukraine ) formed part of the Soviet delegation to the conference of Black Sea countries , which took place on July 11-12 near Moscow . |
| 9 | However , during the fifteenth century changes were introduced and we see for the first time representations of corpses , cadavers and skeletons , and it is from these — usually to be found on memorial brasses , and particularly on those in East Anglia — that we acquire our first glimpse of the English shroud . |