Example sentences of "be for the first time [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Young people with learning difficulties are for the first time fully included in all the provisions of youth support services rather than being treated under separate legislation .
2 Maidstone 's the place to be for the first time ever , all four candidates are female .
3 This poor soul , pallid and puffy on his bed after desperate vomiting , sick and quiet and unregarded ever since , spent and ulcered mind and spirit by what he had so mistakenly undertaken , Jerome was for the first time wholly pitiful .
4 In 1989 the global nature of the drift-net plague was for the first time widely recognised .
5 Lawrence Stone has put forward a highly influential argument that the eighteenth century saw the rise of the companionate marriage , and that affection between husband and wife was for the first time widely judged as important as economic considerations in marriage This argument has been widely challenged in relation to all classes by historians examining various kinds of evidence from the seventeenth century and earlier The belief that affection as an ideal of marriage was basically invented by the middle and upper classes in the eighteenth century has , however , led some critics into simplistic views .
6 Still , the need for a specific and general science of society ( as distinct from the various relevant special disciplines already dealing with human affairs ) was for the first time seriously felt .
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