Example sentences of "for the first time [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The idea of being received at court for the first time since the childhood marriage , at first caused Anne much excitement . |
| 32 | Over the summer , for the first time since the outbreak of war , peace rallies were held in most parts of Britain and some 200,000 signatures were collected . |
| 33 | The average family pays nearly £2,000 a year in interest on debts and mortgages , but last year we ran our household budgets in the black for the first time since the mid-Eighties — and managed to tuck away £10.6 billion in savings . |
| 34 | Meanwhile the patient , who has not been named , was making a rapid recovery and yesterday walked for the first time since the operation . |
| 35 | But with 17 matches to go and key players returning , Strudwick believes his side can reach the big-time for the first time since the Rugby League began their bid to take the game beyond the confines of Yorkshire and Lancashire with the Fulham experiment back in the early eighties . |
| 36 | The board meets on Thursday for the first time since the row began and Mr Hussey , Mr Birt and Lord Barnett will be asked to explain the situation . |
| 37 | Last week , for the first time since the murder on July 15 , Alex 's 29-year-old dad Andre Hanscombe , was able to leave him alone with his grandmother for three hours . |
| 38 | She has the whip-hand for the first time since the cock-up over the separation when they had to apologise for making it known that the knives were out for the Duchess . |
| 39 | For the first time since the British and Italian colonisation in the 1890s , Somalia was free of external influence , but the inter-clan tensions suppressed and manipulated by Barré erupted into an anarchic and bitter civil war . |
| 40 | I could not help thinking there was a wonderful touch of irony in the fact that guy Forget and Henri Leconte , plus their captain , Yannick Noah became national heroes overnight in France for winning back The Davis Cup for the first time since the Musketeers — even though they now all live in Switzerland . |
| 41 | Talks took place between China and Taiwan for the first time since the Communists took control of China in 1949 and the former Nationalist government fled to Taiwan . |
| 42 | The petition was accompanied by one from the magnates , who also sought the withdrawal of the tax on wool : it appears that for the first time since the Ordinances of 1310–11 the commons and the magnates were joining together to seek concessions and measures of reform from the king . |
| 43 | ‘ 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 . |
| 44 | Though there were grumblings in the league , Athens was now formally at peace , for the first time since the Persian Wars , having settled her differences both with Sparta , provisionally , and with the Great King . |
| 45 | Seeing his eyes move away from her mouth for the first time since the whole affair had begun , she shook her shoulders so that her full , rounded gourds trembled like jelly . |
| 46 | Today , however , for the first time since the period of mourning had ended , she had been granted permission to call upon the young prince — to stay a week and celebrate his birthday . |
| 47 | Late in March Mahmoud showed up for the first time since the Yanks had moved out . |
| 48 | In 786 , for the first time since the coming of Augustine , papal legates visited England to reaffirm papal authority and ensure conformity to the requirements of canonic law . |
| 49 | Thus the 1975 Havana Conference of ( for the first time since the Cuban revolution ) all Latin American Communist parties and its rehabilitation of orthodox ideas such as the primacy of the party and the importance of mass organisation , reflected a widespread recognition that the central premise of foquismo was false . |
| 50 | And for the first time since the investigation had begun the sergeant felt he had been lucky . |
| 51 | ‘ For the first time since the start of the recession , ’ said Mr Hayward we may be seeing some glimmer of light , particularly as the figures tie in with the slight decrease in receiverships this quarter and with recent reports of an increase in business optimism . |
| 52 | The 15 most heavily indebted developing countries ( see p. 37017 ) in 1988 as a group increased the surplus of their merchandise exports over their imports to nearly dollars 28,000 million ; the dollar value of their exports rose above the 1981 peak for the first time since the onset of the Third-World debt service problem , although the GATT report pointed out that this trade performance needed to be seen against the background of rising interest charges and continued lack of fresh capital inflows . |
| 53 | Following the Land elections on May 13 , 1990 , in which the CDU lost control of the state for the first time since the mid-1970s [ see p. 37467 ] , the SPD and the Greens reached agreement on the formation of a " red-green " coalition . |
| 54 | The appointment by Pope John Paul II of five new bishops on Feb. 14 , 1990 , filled all of the country 's 13 Roman Catholic bishoprics for the first time since the Second World War [ see p. 36235 for appointment in May 1988 of three bishops ] . |
| 55 | At a meeting in Guinea-Bissau on July 25-27 , 1990 , the joint co-operation commission , meeting for the first time since the 1980 coup , decided that it was unable to settle the longstanding dispute over the demarcation of the maritime border , and agreed to refer it to their heads of state [ see also pp. 36840 ] . |
| 56 | Although there was no official statement concerning the content of the agenda , it was widely believed that the two sides would begin detailed discussions for the first time since the negotiations began in July 1990 . |
| 57 | Orthodox Christmas on Jan. 7 was celebrated as a public holiday for the first time since the arrival of communist rule in the Russian Federation , the Ukraine , Byelorussia , Georgia and Moldavia , with the endorsement of the USSR government . |
| 58 | For the first time since the civil war began in 1979 the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) , the main guerrilla organization , decided not to disrupt or urge a boycott of the elections and in fact declared a three-day truce on March 9-11 . |
| 59 | For the first time since the process of unification began it placed a question mark over the future of Kohl , who had made 14 campaign appearances and admitted that the result represented a " bitter defeat " . |
| 60 | Oil exports were resumed on June 11 for the first time since the outbreak of the Gulf war [ see pp. 37934-43 ] . |