Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [prep] the [num ord] time " in BNC.
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1 | Prime Minister Mouloud Hamrouche , who was to stand for election for the first time , said that the ruling National Liberation Front ( FLN ) might consider entering into a coalition with one of the secular opposition parties , either before or after the election . |
2 | In a separate housing initiative in the north-east , plans were revealed for housing co-operatives in Grampian to build homes for rent for the first time . |
3 | In 1786 , when Robert Burns was preparing his poetry for publication for the first time , he took his manuscript to Glenconner and read his poems to the Tennant family for their approval or otherwise . |
4 | Even the bookmakers lost faith in the world champion who began the event without the status of favourite for the first time in three years . |
5 | Whether jury after retirement should be allowed to hear tape recording of interview for the first time — practice |
6 | But it seemed Lucie had lost a lot of weight since the last time they had played it . |
7 | It was not until 1966 that the transcontinental standard-gauge line was completed , thereby connecting Sydney to Perth without break of gauge for the first time . |
8 | It was during this period that the boroughs of Bethnal Green , Stepney , Mile End and Poplar witnessed a net loss of population for the first time . |
9 | A MANCHESTER United starlet of the 1980s is plotting the downfall of Prescot for the second time in seven days . |
10 | COLIN Montgomerie experienced the torture chamber of Baltusrol for the first time yesterday and insisted the time had come for Europe to demolish America 's stranglehold on the U.S. Open . |
11 | After weeks of private anguish followed by questionable closed-door lobbying of the leading minds of the Royal College of Science , Darwin found himself forced to go public on the issue of evolution for the first time , when both their papers were read at the Linnean Society of London on that momentous July evening of 1858 . |
12 | If an overweight man in his fifties who is a heavy smoker , has a family history of heart disease and is working in a stressful job were to decide to ‘ get fit ’ and invite a colleague for a game of squash for the first time in twenty years , he would be doing just about the best he could to give himself a heart attack . |
13 | Anyone seeing such works of sculpture for the first time can not fail to note the harmonious line described through the perfectly proportioned bodies of the men and women portrayed . |
14 | I made a lot of friends and was introduced to the wonders of television for the first time . |
15 | For , when one experiences a piece of furniture for the first time , it is usually through those top two or three microns of surface coating . |
16 | ‘ She is now out of plaster for the first time in ten years and can get into a bath , ’ she said . |
17 | But as the Labour parliamentary front bench scents the thaw , and surveys the possibility of government for the first time in a decade , the party pressures running in favour of detente are increasing . |
18 | Conservative commentators are urging Republicans to stage an all-out attack on Mr Clinton as an old-fashioned ‘ tax-and-spend ’ liberal , locked out of government for the first time since 1981 , |
19 | A man like Mr Silvester Horne is regarded by his congregation with feelings of almost unmeasured adoration , due to the fact that he and they are really opening the book of life for the first time together and comparing impressions . |
20 | There was some laughter at a dinner party when one of the guests admitted she had eaten and enjoyed a plate of spinach for the first time in twenty-five years . |
21 | This is what was left of his council house after it was struck by a bolt of lightning for the SECOND time in 2 weeks . |
22 | In 1991 , he finished number one in the Order of Merit for the sixth time in his career . |
23 | To this end , it is calling a World Summit for Children to be held at the UN in New York next September , bringing together heads of state for the first time to discuss an important social issue . |
24 | It was a ‘ secret garden ’ at least to David Eccles who when Secretary of State for the second time , in 1962 , was determined ( against the better judgement of many of its guardians ) to strip it of its secrecy . |
25 | So performing live in the Land of Song for the first time was an emotional experience for Kylie and her relatives . |
26 | But the building no longer belonged to the Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party , and the apparatchiks , once the backbone of the party state , were contemplating the possibility of unemployment for the first time in their lives . |
27 | This lack of continuity — and the failure of the club 's famous youth scheme to produce players of acceptable quality — has left Athletic in danger of relegation for the first time in 64 years of Spanish league history . |
28 | League performances slumped disastrously , and there was even talk of relegation for the first time since Chapman took over . |
29 | Glamorous 36-year-old Jacqui is positively blooming with the prospect of motherhood for the fourth time . |
30 | Or it was until last Friday , when British Coal locked the gates of Parkside for the last time , and over 700 men were made redundant . |