Example sentences of "in [noun sg] for the first time " in BNC.

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1 The result is a bucking of current trends with the growth in spending outstripping rises in income for the first time in three years .
2 Where a member of the Parliamentary Labour Party is representing this party in parliament for the first time the above ( normal ) procedure shall be set in motion not earlier than eighteen months after his or her election as Member of Parliament .
3 He is under 13 stone in weight for the first time since his teens .
4 When , for example , establishment actor Raymond Massey saw James Dean in action for the first time on the set of East of Eden , emitting as he did a stream of sexual and genital adjectives , Massey stormed off the set declaring , ‘ I have never experienced anything like this in my entire life .
5 Krabbe 's comeback GERMANY 'S double world sprint champion Katrin Krabbe will be back in action for the first time since the lifting of her doping ban , at a meeting on her home Neubrandenburg track on June 13 .
6 ‘ We have lost two League games in succession for the first time since August .
7 Rangers ' goalkeeper , who has a valid claim to the title of Britain 's best by his displays in Europe this season , has missed two matches in succession for the first time since joining the club from Hibs and will not train today .
8 Next day — possibly anticipating that the fighter defences had been crippled by the attrition of the 22nd. , the Axis appeared in force for the first time in some days as a further convoy reached the island .
9 Deputies from the SPA , in opposition for the first time , abstained from the vote .
10 He sold Grove Chance , then in foal for the first time , to his neighbour Percy Thomas , but when she died shortly after giving birth to Norton 's Coin he bought back the foal .
11 The article also states that the burden of proof that a standard term has been individually negotiated falls on the seller or supplier , but given the provisions set out in the previous paragraph , it is hard to see how this burden can ever be discharged , unless there has been an individual negotiation at which both parties actually discussed and wrote out the clause in question for the first time .
12 Many pistoliers will be fighting in battle for the first time .
13 Grain output rose by 6% , and wheat was in surplus for the first time in four years .
14 A joint venture between English Nature and London Zoo 's Invertebrate Conservation team has resulted in Britain 's most endangered bush cricket , the wart-biter ( Decticus verrucivorus ) being successfully reared in captivity for the first time .
15 But Brewer has an uncanny knack of getting injured at the wrong time and so hooker Sean Fitzpatrick will be in charge for the first time .
16 TWO North-East councillors came face to face in court for the first time yesterday over allegations that they assaulted each other .
17 When we launched our boat in Rangkul for the first time and motored towards the islands where the birds were said to nest , it was with considerable relief that we saw there were indeed geese , and they were on eggs .
18 For the Liberals , they gained an indirect foothold in government for the first time since 1931 in peacetime circumstances , and it flattered their self-esteem as a small third force to become part of the governing process .
19 Labour Party members had taken part in government for the first time under the wartime coalition of Lloyd George and with the support of the party 's National Executive Committee .
20 However , others in the industry are concerned about ‘ cowboy ’ companies dabbling in biotechnology for the first time and about the commercial offshoots of universities which are scaling up laboratory experiments — often on shoestring budgets .
21 However she did seem to get better , and no one could have been happier than my master , when he saw her sitting up in bed for the first time , and beginning to take an interest in the people and things around her .
22 ‘ I fell in love for the first time while I was still at school , ’ she has revealed .
23 Had I read enough French novels at the time , I would have known what to expect ; and of course it was here that I fell in love for the first time .
24 Despite the lines round her mouth and the flecks of grey in her hair , there was a bloom in her cheeks and her eyes shone like those of a girl who has fallen in love for the first time .
25 This Session will see the new House management committees introduced , and , following the report by Sir Robin Ibbs , in operation for the first time .
26 However , there is a range of content and styles from international research names to the local teacher round the corner in print for the first time , which continually enliven and interest the reader .
27 The Military Training Act of 1939 effectively introduced conscription in peacetime for the first time in Britain 's history .
28 By approving Bevin 's statement the conference committed itself to accepting National Service in peacetime for the first time ever .
29 He summarizes the kind of attitudes and assumptions towards religion which a majority of children when they arrive in school for the first time will be likely already to have assimilated .
30 In the strict or dictionary sense The Lord of the Rings evades that concept totally , for according to the OED ‘ defeatism ’ is a straight borrowing from French défaitisme , recorded in English for the first time in 1918 and meaning ‘ Conduct tending to bring about acceptance of defeat , esp .
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