Example sentences of "[adv] be the first time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would not be the first time that it had done so . |
| 2 | The test car I drove had a serious wind noise problem , which will not be the first time Ford has heard that about the Escort , but it otherwise came across as well conceived — it 's easy to load and has a completely flat floor with rear seats folded — and competent . |
| 3 | This will not be the first time it has been tried , and the observations of one former planning official are worth quoting at length : |
| 4 | It would not be the first time that a ‘ bad cold ’ has referred to a political chill rather than a runny nose . |
| 5 | I pause to observe that this would not be the first time that , in this field , Parliament has conferred on the English court a jurisdiction of unlimited territorial application . |
| 6 | It would not be the first time that a Court sorcerer had been lured away from the strong pure magic of Ireland and sworn allegiance to the Dark Realm . |
| 7 | Might he not be playing a far deeper game although not a new one , since it would not be the first time that the man who hatched the plot and encouraged others most ardently to join it , should be the very one to turn his fellow conspirators over to the magistrates . |
| 8 | The World Championship match will not be the first time the two players have contested a world title . |
| 9 | And tonight is the first time the two girls have ever gone past the ground floor . |
| 10 | Mr Deng has repeatedly promised to retire in recent years , but yesterday was the first time he had reissued the pledge since the Tiananmen Square massacre and a shake-up of the party leadership . |
| 11 | But after years of the DHSS , it really was the first time I 'd been spoken to like a human being . |
| 12 | ‘ Would n't be the first time your husband 's come back when you did n't expect him , would it ? ’ |
| 13 | If these fears prove justified , it wo n't be the first time Asian families would be forced through deliberate government policies to live in terrifying isolation . |
| 14 | It would n't be the first time . |
| 15 | ‘ I did wonder , ’ I said , ‘ but it wo n't be the first time the map 's been wrong . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It wo n't be the first time that people who think they 're in the fast track come across a roadblock and are overtaken by people in what was falsely described as the slow track . ’ |
| 17 | There were questions he still needed to ask and it would n't be the first time that he had taken advantage of tiredness or grief . |
| 18 | I think she should have played a Tour Event before an exhibition event , but then again it would n't be the first time she has n't turned up for a Tour Event would it ? |
| 19 | It would n't be the first time Littlewoods had copied a successful high street idea . |
| 20 | ‘ It wo n't be the first time , ’ she muttered . |
| 21 | ‘ It wo n't be the first time I 've had to come to your rescue and haul your ass out of trouble . ’ |
| 22 | It would n't be the first time . |
| 23 | probably wo n't be the first time you have to edit it either . |
| 24 | It would n't be the first time that a man had lovingly supported a woman through crisis only to discover that when she was strong again his own need was to confine her in a dependent role . |
| 25 | It would n't be the first time that a man has been seduced by female beauty and been left the poorer for his pleasure , nor the first time Lotta has attempted by stealth to deprive me of something which I value . ’ |
| 26 | It would n't be the first time , but I did n't say it . |
| 27 | It wo n't be the first time he 's spent a night on the tiles ! ’ |
| 28 | But if there is to be an Oxford mafia in Washington , it wo n't be the first time former University College students have made history . |
| 29 | Wo n't be the first time . |
| 30 | Wo n't be the first time Bob . |