Example sentences of "not the first [noun] [noun] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not the first time golf has stumbled on its projected step into the 21st century . |
| 2 | It 's not the first time Faringdon 's been flooded , but in living memory this may be the worst deluge |
| 3 | It was not the first time Bill had felt let down by Mandy . |
| 4 | This is not the first time Seitz had pondered what Digest calls ‘ the Norman puzzle ’ . |
| 5 | It 's not the first time Birdland has been hit by thieves , last year parrots were stolen in a similar raid . |
| 6 | It 's not the first time Birdland has been hit by thieves , last year parrots were stolen in a similar raid . |
| 7 | Well , first of all , I 've heard that — it 's not the first time he 's been arrested , and it 's not the first time de-programmers have been arrested . |
| 8 | This was not the first time Alice had caught suggestions that Jasper liked being bound over — needed the edge it put on life . |
| 9 | It 's not the first time Barphone has been a takeover target . |
| 10 | It 's not the first time airmen have died in this way near Upper Heyford. 23 years ago , the pilot of a Voodoo jet reconaissance aircraft crashed into a tree after just managing to clear the roof of Steeple Aston school . |
| 11 | This was not the first time feminists had mobilized politically around religion , both to mount a searching critique of patriarchal society and to envisage more egalitarian forms of social organization . |
| 12 | It is not the first time Robins has been angry at deals negotiated by his predecessor . |
| 13 | It was n't the first time Berowne had spent the night in St Matthew 's church vestry . ’ |
| 14 | But this was n't the first time Perkins had been charged with drug possession in Britain . |
| 15 | It was n't the first time Juliet had wished she were n't an only child . |
| 16 | It was n't the first time Isabel had said the words . |
| 17 | It was n't the first time Luke had contacted her since their sight seeing expedition — the flowers that by now she was coming to expect had arrived promptly next day , and with them a handwritten note — but it was the first time that she had heard his voice . |