Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] time he [vb -s] " in BNC.

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1 For the first time he has the respect of all sections of his party .
2 For the first time he has revealed that his controversial substitution in the European Championship finals came after a series of confrontations .
3 Being rude about Palin feels like bombing Switzerland , but for the first time he seems , with this series , to be to post-Python what Paul McCartney was to post-Beatles .
4 Up to this moment he has always behaved as spontaneously as an animal , surrendering to appetite and vomiting ; now for the first time he makes a considered choice .
5 He tells me of the only time he has seen his mother drink ; her infant grandchild vomited on her coat , and she spouted a fine , volatile performance , screaming Christ Almighty the cross a woman has to bear , taking the Lord 's name in vain for the very first time .
6 In the case of contracts creating continuing or recurrent liabilities incident to the disposition or holding of property , such as a settlement or a leasehold tenancy , the infant , on attaining full age , becomes bound unless within a reasonable time he takes steps to repudiate liability .
7 He appears progressive in advocating an income tax as the basis or an arrangement by which people might give according to their means and take according to their need , and sees this in terms of the possibilities of socialism , but at the same time he lends himself to a strong laissez-faire interpretation highly restrictive of the involvement of the state ( 1978 : 315–18 ) .
8 at the same time he yearns for something beyond sight .
9 At the same time he denounces both the ‘ painted ’ Roman church for its wanton attachment to ritual and relics , and the ‘ undressed ’ Calvinism of Geneva which , he claimed , excluded all decency and decorum from religious observance .
10 At the same time he keeps the real mountain intact , and Hinderstoisser , Kurz and company as historical markers .
11 But at the same time he refuses Derrida 's equation of historicity with difference as such , instead reformulating his former thesis so that now history itself takes part in the epistemic shifts that he traces .
12 If so , how does he justify the fear that there may be a number of fingers on the disintegrating Soviet strategic deterrent , when at the same time he seeks to justify the proliferation of nuclear strategic deterrents in the hands of France , the United Kingdom and the United States ?
13 But at the same time he deserves a pat on the back because of some of the saves he had to make .
14 As an analytical philosopher Honderich is keen to explore the logic of Conservatism and to demonstrate that it has none , but at the same time he engages with the history of Conservative ideas .
15 At the same time he knows a lot of this is going to get known by the people who matter and he does n't want to be the man who hindered the investigation .
16 At the same time he reflects the important belief that Ho Chi Minh was first and foremost a Vietnamese nationalist even though in his next sentence Moffat said ‘ He was also a communist and believed that communism offered the best hope for the Vietnamese people . ’
17 Yes , you all laugh — who , all right , he makes — some of the things he says are valid , but because he 's watered his message down , if you , well ‘ watered down ’ is the wrong , popularized his message to make a political point , at the same time he 's alienated other people who he needs to rely on in this scientific community to help him go , go forward .
18 Lukács argues that the novel can transcend this threat of dispersal through an assertion of a continuous temporality , but at the same time he formulates the process in the structure of a fall : ‘ Once this unity disintegrated , there could be no more spontaneous totality of being ’ .
19 But at the same time he has an acute sense of her as being more than the object of his perception , as being another subjectivity , a self which is not his own self .
20 At the same time he has no political authority , er , representing as it were the British government , he 's just an individual of stature , and he 's got the time and the energy to do it .
21 Marjorie Bilbow , in Cinema TV Today , described the production as ‘ very plodding and unimaginative ’ , and Clyde Jeavons wrote in the British Film Institute 's Monthly Film Bulletin , ‘ Apart from accommodating a number of half-hearted and totally unmemorable songs and dance routines , William Sterling has taken few liberties with the original narrative , but at the same time he has divested it of both its charm and its potential for cinematic comic invention .
22 ‘ You could find out a whole lot more about his feelings if you had dinner here — at the same time he has dinner .
23 He does note , in the letter to Zasulich , Morgan 's hope for a future society , which would abandon the obsession with private property , but at the same time he makes it clear that he rightly does not consider Morgan a socialist or a revolutionary .
24 At the same time he checks the mouth for any other problems that may have evolved since his previous visit and , because every month is different , he can give valuable advice to the horse owner on the shape of the mouth and type of bit most suitable for the individual horse .
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