Example sentences of "for [art] [num ord] time [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TOUGH Belfast-style stop and search tactics are to be used across Britain for the first time to combat IRA bombers . |
| 2 | British sport began for the first time to embrace commercialism , although the process was cautious and gradual . |
| 3 | Ironically , David Guest 's victory came on the day that television cameras were allowed for the first time to record proceedings in a Scottish court . |
| 4 | UN nuclear weapons expert Maurizio Zeffirero declared on Dec. 8 , following an inspection visit to Iraq , that the government had expressed its willingness for the first time to open discussions regarding foreign suppliers of its nuclear weapons programme . |
| 5 | In the past year , serious peace talks have begun for the first time to end Guatemala 's 30-year old civil war between the army and a number of guerrilla organisations grouped together in the URNG coalition . |
| 6 | Some similar process in Ursula presumably explained her willingness for the first time to discuss arrangements for the funeral , which they agreed should be held as soon as possible . |
| 7 | Having raised the hopes of friend and foe alike — and especially of Iraqis , witness the ecstatic scenes in Baghdad last week — by agreeing for the first time to contemplate withdrawal from Kuwait , he was unwilling to commit himself unequivocally . |
| 8 | The legislation gives the police statutory powers for the first time to impose conditions on public meetings ( although not to ban them outright ) . |
| 9 | The immediate post-war period again provided the optimism that had existed in 1920 , and the farm worker appeared to be poised for the first time to achieve equality of pay and status with workers in other industries . |
| 10 | Proposals were made to give new powers to the police to control protest , as well as other processions and assemblies , and for the first time to require organisers to inform the police of their intentions in advance . |
| 11 | It was while Cecilia was running upstairs for the third time to tell Tina she must get up , she really must or she would be late for school , that she heard the Cambridge School bell utter a single toll . |
| 12 | Not only that ; that 's where they get their instructions , because sometimes some of them go out again for a second time to take part in another incident . |