Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The May meeting will be on Wednesday 26 May 1993 at the same time in Glasgow Polytechnic . |
| 2 | Falcon will send children to Florida free for the first time , Martyn announced savings of up to £105 on its Greece and Cyprus brochure and SunMed is offering seven nights in Corfu for just Pounds 99 . |
| 3 | The Collective State Presidency , excluding the Slovene representative Janez Drnovsek , met on July 4 for the first time with Mesic as President [ see p. 38275 ] . |
| 4 | ISLANDERS in the tiny Pacific state of Palau vote in a referendum on February 6 for the seventh time on a deal with the United States which would give the US strategic military rights in the Western Pacific only 500 miles from the troubled Philippines . |
| 5 | I will never forget hearing the Leningrad Philharmonic for the first time , the incredible discipline those players had in the combination of strings and brass — it 's impossible to forget it because it 's impossible to repeat it . |
| 6 | Earlier , there had been fighting at Mannar on Aug. 1 as the LTTE attacked an advancing troop convoy ; naval artillery was used against rebel positions on Aug. 3 for the first time since the resumption of large-scale fighting on June 11 ; and a major clash took place on Aug. 4-5 , involving the repulsing of an unsuccessful rebel attack against the Jaffna fort . |
| 7 | Multiparty elections to a 23-member constituent commission were held on July 23-26 for the first time since the 1977 coup , when Sir James Mancham was overthrown by France-Albert René [ see pp. 28485-86 ] . |
| 8 | Membership would entail the release of detailed information on the Soviet economy , and observers saw the publication of Gosbank ( Soviet State Bank ) accounts on July 16 for the first time since 1936 as the beginnings of this . |
| 9 | Pickering have their wicket keeper Richard Gray available for the first time this season on recovering from a hand injury for the visit of Scarborough in the EYC while Whitby are unchanged for the visit of York in the same competition . |
| 10 | Savimbi returned to Luanda on Sept. 27 for the first time since the start of the 16-year civil war . |
| 11 | A ( Soviet ) DRA proposal at the Geneva talks in February 1987 for the first time made public a time frame for Soviet withdrawal , eighteen months , with no conditions attached to the process of ‘ national reconciliation ’ in Afghanistan . |
| 12 | With the prospects of breaking the stalemate fading , hopes rose following the announcement that the government and ANC representatives had held talks on July 28 for the first time since the ANC broke off contact on June 23 . |
| 13 | In 1955 also the idea of a Children 's Church on Sunday mornings was first suggested ( thought it did not start till November 1960 ) and in December 1955 for the first time there was a Christmas tree in church . |
| 14 | ‘ One called upon the half-mortals , using words of such power that we were compelled to come instantly , breaking the spell-wall and leaving Andernesse undefended for the first time since the Four Cities fell . |
| 15 | The House will recall my Adjournment debate of 22 January 1991 following the publication in December 1990 for the first time of the annual report by Her Majesty 's inspector of constabulary , Mr. Geoffrey Dear . |
| 16 | Representatives of West Berlin , which is not a constituent part of the Federal Republic , in both the Bundestag and Bundesrat have since May 1990 for the first time had full voting rights in both bodies . |
| 17 | Miss asked , asked me and Claire and Lisa all at the same time |
| 18 | The market in government securities was drastically reformed in October 1986 at the same time as the general — Big Bang — reforms of security trading in Britain discussed in Chapter 2 above . |
| 19 | Hekmatyar 's most powerful rival in the mujaheddin , the northern-based Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ahmad Shah Massud ( known as the " Lion of Panjsher " for his victories over Soviet troops in the Panjsher Valley — see p. 36396 ) , visited Islamabad , the Pakistan capital , on Oct. 13 for the first time for more than 10 years , to meet other mujaheddin leaders and senior Pakistani civilian and military officials , including the Pakistani President , Ghulam Ishaq Khan , the Army Chief of Staff , Gen. Mirza Aslam Beg , and the ISI chief , Maj.-Gen. |
| 20 | The UN Security Council had reconvened on Feb. 13 for the first time since the outbreak of hostilities to review the progress of the conflict . |
| 21 | Party organisers want the conference to show that the party is united as never before , leaving Mr Kinnock free for the first time to sell the policy package to voters without worrying about splits . |
| 22 | Iraqi authorities lifted the night-time curfew on Nov. 23 for the first time since the Aug. 2 invasion [ see pp. 37632-35 ] . |
| 23 | Also at North Weald , flying on September 9 for the first time in eighteen years was CM. 170 Magister G–FUGA in the hands of an Irish Air Corps test pilot from Baldonnel . |
| 24 | A number of New York galleries are establishing a presence there , including Brooke Alexander and John Weber Galleries who , with Spanish dealer Pepe Cobo have opened in Madrid ( Galeria Weber , Alexander y Cobo ) ; Salander O'Reilly Gallery , which has established a branch of its New York operation in Berlin ; and Forum Gallery which will show at the Cologne Art Fair for the first time this November . |
| 25 | The Christian Democratic People 's Party met in September 1989 for the first time in 40 years and elected a permanent leadership , claiming a membership of 3,000 . |
| 26 | Two lines of development are necessary if IBM is to keep the performance of the Rios RISC competitive at the same time as extending the range downwards with the single chip PowerPC , the company says — and Rios 2 will drive forward both the integer and floating point performance of Rios , adds IBM . |
| 27 | The USA did so on April 7 at the same time as recognizing Bosnia-Hercegovina [ see above ] . |
| 28 | Government troops had been landed on the north coast of Bougainville in April 1991 for the first time since being forced to withdrew from the territory in 1990 . |
| 29 | Sequoia Systems Inc , Marlborough , Massachusetts , is sinking deeper into the mire and now says it will restate its financial results for the year ended June 30 for the second time , and will amend its annual report on form 10K , because it now finds that it overstated its turnover . |
| 30 | The sense of failure that haloed his bowed head made Clare conscious for the first time of his identity as a person . |