Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] for [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under a new law , proposed during the fifth session of the eighth National Assembly ( which convened in Hanoi on June 20-30 , 1989 ) , non-CPV members were allowed to stand as candidates for the first time . |
| 2 | The focal point is the Rathaus ( town hall ) , with a fine sixteenth-century tower that dominates the many charming houses in the vicinity , and one of its most striking houses offers a reminder that the Swiss have been at the business of looking after travellers for a long time . |
| 3 | Of birds for the first time ever heard , |
| 4 | and at the end of the national hunt racing season … celebrations for Gloucestershire 's top stables … trainer David Nicholson reached a century of winners for the first time and champion jockey Richard Dunwoody finished with 173 … a record year for them both |
| 5 | She also looked great — out of dungarees for the first time and into a becomingly simple black dress . |
| 6 | There was a certain rapprochement though , as Mary came down with her things in the back-pack Rufus had lent her and wearing jeans and a pair of sandals for the first time for days . |
| 7 | The seminars , which will be held in Dundee and Glasgow , will focus on the second phase of general SVQs , though they may also include workshops for centres wanting to pilot the first batch of awards for the first time . |
| 8 | Their most pressing concern was the seven-year-old Iran-Iraq war , and the Palestine question was pushed to the bottom of the list of priorities for the first time in the history of the Arab League . |
| 9 | She sobs loudly in his arms , relieved of the company of strangers for the first time . |
| 10 | Under the Government 's fund-holding initiative , doctors have control over their own spending on behalf of patients for the first time . |
| 11 | The colonisation of new land , and its demarcation into private estates , created thousands of miles of boundaries for the first time . |
| 12 | He was able to provide information on age , sex , and growth of whales for the first time without killing , touching , marking , or molesting a single animal . |
| 13 | The Reform Act of 1832 laid the foundations of electoral democracy by tidying up the system — for instance , getting rid of ‘ rotten boroughs ’ , small or almost non-existent places that could return MPs — and setting up a register of voters for the first time . |
| 14 | A magnate would engage to serve with a specified number of men for a particular time in return for wages which were agreed in advance and paid by the Exchequer . |
| 15 | Bob Hope , the master of ceremonies for the umpteenth time , unfunnily and inaccurately joked about Dustin 's youthfulness , saying , ‘ They nominated a kid like Dustin Hoffman — he made a picture he ca n't get in to see . |
| 16 | From him , I heard of leys for the first time , and learned that he had found alignments of tree clumps in the countryside around his home . |
| 17 | Ms Hargreaves admitted that one potentially lucrative source of sponsorship had dried up two days previously , when two-year-old Kate stepped out of nappies for the last time . |
| 18 | As Nell followed , the rows of screens for the first time were blank , showing no signs of life . |
| 19 | He felt like an infant staggering uncertainly out of doors for the first time into the infinitude of the universe . |
| 20 | By Tuesday , he was able to venture out of doors for the first time since arriving home , late and ailing , on Thursday night . |
| 21 | It 's difficult to think about things for the first time in the heat of the moment , so plan it out now . |
| 22 | This was the classic showman speaking and on this occasion he was directing his remarks directly at those intellectuals whom his films had brought into cinemas for the first time . |
| 23 | I am chairman of the Africa committee of the British Refugee Council , so I have worked closely with refugees for a long time . |
| 24 | More than three-quarters of the requested items which were at binding were serial parts being bound into volumes for the first time . |
| 25 | We do put children out into playgrounds for a long time , those children that take lunch in school will spend about 20 per cent of the day in the playground . |
| 26 | Dogs which have lived in kennels for a long time can be particularly difficult to house-train successfully , although this is helped by the fact that they will only defecate about twice a day . |
| 27 | A chapel-reared Cornish boy , he was far from home , working in Salisbury , drinking in pubs for the first time in his life , sleeping rough in a wood . |
| 28 | ‘ I just want to get this season over and start from fresh again , ’ added the ring-rusty world No 55 , also forced to play in glasses for the first time . |
| 29 | In bed that night , Evelyn and Rose talked in whispers for a long time after they were sure that everyone else was asleep . |
| 30 | As we prayed for him it was clear that the Holy Spirit was touching him powerfully , and he began to speak in tongues for the first time . |