Example sentences of "[art] first time to [adj] " in BNC.

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1 After all , if you have begun addressing yourself for the first time to such an issue you are more likely to be able to have the courage of your convictions at work in trying to tackle , for example , management by inertia .
2 MOSCOW — Huge amounts of computerised information held in Soviet data bases are to be made available for the first time to Western research , it was agreed at a conference for Western and Eastern scientists here , writes Justin Arundale .
3 Prizemoney was awarded for the first time to competing teams in 1976 .
4 While this may be socially desirable in the LFA , until the reduction and partial elimination of capital grants in December 1984 , there were fears that pastures and meadows ( hitherto traditionally managed ) , small wetlands and areas of rough grazing on small farms in the UK uplands would be subject for the first time to agricultural intensification .
5 The principle of ‘ dual control ’ ( by the public authority and by a voluntary body ) was extended for the first time to secondary schools .
6 Fighting spread for the first time to Serbian territory on Nov. 5 and 6 , when Croatian forces were reported to have attacked Serbian villages .
7 The Shanghai stock exchange was reported by the Financial Times of Oct. 23 to have gained approval to offer for the first time to foreign investors shares worth $35,000,000-50,000,000 in the state-owned Shanghai Vacuum , the biggest quoted company on the exchange .
8 The story weaves the Japanese viewpoint widely through the film and presents , probably for the first time to most movie viewers , a rational reason why the Japanese felt they had to attack the United States or suffer as a second-class nation .
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