Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] for [art] [num ord] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The offence is in outline very similar to the pre-existing offence under the Public Order Act 1936 , section 5A , although it adds ‘ behaviour ’ to the list of proscribed activities for the first time . |
| 2 | Although there was no official statement concerning the content of the agenda , it was widely believed that the two sides would begin detailed discussions for the first time since the negotiations began in July 1990 . |
| 3 | They were driving into the city now , and she looked around her , seeing it with different eyes for the first time , seeing it as a garrulous old lady with so much to tell to anyone willing to listen . |
| 4 | The Norwegian whaling fleet has already set sail to study stock sizes and to establish how many fish minke whales eat , and in May will begin commercial catches for the first time since 1987 . |
| 5 | It was 27 days since Rashid had left his office at Iraqi Airlines for the last time . |
| 6 | So when [ named defendant ] , 41 , made sexual overtures for the first time during their five-year friendship she went to a neighbour and cried rape . |
| 7 | After both B and C Company put in similar performances the Cup was firmly in British hands for the first time . |
| 8 | On April 25 , 1990 , the three Western allies announced that they had agreed to allow West Berliners to vote in West German elections for the first time since 1949 ( hitherto the West Berlin city legislature had sent 22 non-voting delegates to the Bundestag and had similar status within the Bundesrat ) . |
| 9 | With one round to play , she was as many as three shots ahead of Australia 's Nadene Hall , a gifted girl playing on a British links for a first time . |
| 10 | A small company , perhaps exploring foreign markets for the first time , will have requirements different from those of larger institutions which may already be tried and tested in the international arena . |
| 11 | Afterwards to wear clerical clothes for the first time , and instantly to be expected to be a confidant or soul 's friend , was to many ordinands the more heartfelt turning-point . |
| 12 | French short-term interest rates fell below German ones for the first time since 1991 . |
| 13 | It 's task is to run the clearing house for monetary transactions being wired in and out of the country , and will provide on-line facilities for the first time , as well as better monitoring and tracking facilities . |
| 14 | Often , however , an attack of non-specific urethritis can be followed by months , if not years , of needless worry and anxiety , simply because , following the mind 's focusing on the genitalia , the patient has noticed certain characteristics of his sexual organs for the first time , and normality has become abnormality . |
| 15 | Inspections were carried out by outside groups for the first time , and changes , such as putting windows into dark cells , took place . |
| 16 | Network Computing Devices Inc pretty much has the dedicated X-terminal business sewn up , and the Mountain View , California company is now moving in on the personal computer X Window System emulation business with launch of PC-Xware , a single software package that it claims provides full X terminal functionality on personal computers for the first time . |
| 17 | Network Computing Devices Inc has the dedicated X-terminal business pretty much sewn up , and the Mountain View , California company is now moving in on the personal computer X Window System emulation business dominated by the likes of Canadian outfit Hummingbird Communications Ltd and UK firm XVision Ltd , with launch of PC-Xware , a single software package that it claims provides full X terminal functionality on personal computers for the first time . |
| 18 | The ironical and fundamental point is that during these post-war years , when international demand for tropical commodities for the first time since 1921 really justified vast investments in the Colonies ; when the Colonies had a huge back-log of demand for essential equipment ; when at last the British government was equipped with power to give or lend considerable sums to top up what the Colonies could afford to invest from their own accumulating surplus ; and when . |
| 19 | I would wish warmly to join in congratulating the hon. Gentleman 's constituent on his 80th birthday , particularly as , next month , the income support premium for the over-80s will be raised in real terms for the second time in three years . |
| 20 | City rents are falling in absolute terms for the first time in 25 years . |
| 21 | Display manager John Birch said the complaint could have arisen because the store was using some male dummies for the first time in several years . |
| 22 | I also had real boots for the first time . |
| 23 | It is at this stage in the history of the unit that its existence starts to register gradually in official records for the first time . |
| 24 | He was unfortunate to come up against West Indies , playing four fast bowlers for the first time , when he was still an inexperienced leader and the memory of Lillee and Thomson was still raw . |
| 25 | When they entered the house one of the brothers reached for the bottle of whiskey and poured four large glasses for the first time that day . |
| 26 | Chez Gerard , a London restaurant which prides itself on its Frenchness and its wine list , is just one now considering offering non-French wines for the first time , including some from the Antipodes . |
| 27 | Kahnweiler linked the names of Picasso and Braque together seriously in Der Weg zum Kubismus , written in 1915 though not published until 1920 , but general recognition of their collaboration dates from the Kahnweiler and Uhde sales of the early 1920s when their pre-war Cubism could be seen together in large quantities for the first time . |
| 28 | What they had n't realized was that this was a new Linford , stronger , fitter , faster than ever before and running in really ideal conditions for the first time in his life . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , on May 8 President Saddam Hussein met Kurdish leaders for the first time since April 24 . |
| 30 | There is now full time working at all the operational distilleries for the first time in eight years . |