Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eleven weeks before the opening of the British Empire Exhibition ( where for the first time the King 's speech was transmitted by wireless to every part of the country and many parts of the British Empire ) , the house with every item in place was ready to be presented to both the Queen and the public . |
| 2 | New light on an Old Master is illuminated indeed , and it 's what you will find at Canada House Gallery where for the first time , an almost forgotten body of work by Henri Matisse , relating to his fascination with the Canadian Inuit , has been mounted together with much original source material in the way of Inuit masks , photographs and books which the artist studied . |
| 3 | The House of Lords , not for the first or for the last time , held that ‘ determination ’ should not be construed as including everything which purported to be a determination but was not , and so the court was not precluded from deciding that the order of the Commission was a nullity . |
| 4 | At or about the same time as the 2D was announced , Philips unveiled the PL lamp . |
| 5 | Second , only rarely would a coin have been lost at or near the same time when it was made ; we must bear in mind how long a particular type of coin is likely to have stayed in circulation . |
| 6 | A prominent Irish paddler , who shall remain nameless , was wont to drop a 50p or £1 coin on the pontoon on his arrival , thus ensuring a hefty shove in the appropriate direction , at or before the appropriate time ! |
| 7 | That is because it is an area where Marx and Engels , misled by Morgan , went most wrong , yet where at the same time they made the best use of anthropology . |
| 8 | A widespread factor is found where real or suggested expertise is involved in a transaction and where at the same time it may be assumed that the customer is ignorant about what it is he is paying for . |
| 9 | When she had stopped the car and climbed out , she wondered for a moment whether she had come on the wrong day or at the wrong time , though she was sure she had not . |
| 10 | Moreover , the two aspects of the debate were not always synchronised in the same people or at the same time . |
| 11 | It is vital for the young cuckoo to hatch either before , or at the same time as , its nest mates . |
| 12 | Thus a man who could have done all sorts of good things is rendered useless ; and the same sort of outcome could follow in a case involving not one but two men , or a hundred or more , or even a whole branch of a family ( progenies ) or at the same time a whole province — if you 're not very careful ! " ( c. 31 ) |
| 13 | The woodland shimmered , was still — a moment 's stifling summer silence , then the howl of the new season , a freezing wind bringing death and shedding so that for the second time in two minutes the land was drenched with fallen leaves and snow . |
| 14 | One young farmer , Shermani Yussef , said that for the first time in his life he had been forced to lease some of his land to cover his losses . |
| 15 | Soutter , the fourth seed , thus beat the player who caused her exclusion from England 's world title-winning team , in a final that for the first time since 1979 contained neither of the Guernsey girls , Martine le Moignan and Lisa Opie . |
| 16 | Her eleventh novel , Gwendolen , has just been published and she says that for the first time she is writing for her soul . |
| 17 | Concerned at the rapid expansion of the hunt , and the declining stocks of small cetaceans around the coastline , the Iwate Prefecture in January 1989 instituted a licensing system , so that for the first time ever , the hunt could be regulated . |
| 18 | Masha nodded , saying that for the first time since Geneva she could feel the attraction of Communism . |
| 19 | But on 20 September the Commission announced that for the first time it would take Britain before the European Court of Justice . |
| 20 | Then he realised that for the first time he was looking into the front of a hurricane . |
| 21 | He realised that for the first time in weeks he had not thought of school , Murray , Fairbrother or the wretched affair of the letter . |
| 22 | What is interesting is that for the first time individual patrols would have radio communication via jeep-mounted No. 11 radio sets , but in the event of breakdowns they would also each take two pigeons . |
| 23 | There was the added complication that for the first time there would be a period of five minutes or so when I would have to shut inside my satchel not only my outdoor shoes but my gym shoes as well . |
| 24 | Warren pointed out that for the first time Britain was aiming to carry out speculative research . |
| 25 | While feeling a little sad at leaving , Mr. Offer said that for the first time he would be looking forward to an extra hour in bed in the morning . |
| 26 | At the Food Research Institute Dr David Southgate , who has made a special study of dietary fibre and whose research is the source of the scientific textbook fibre figures , has provided analytical values for the dietary fibre in a range of usefully fibre-rich canned and packaged foods , so that for the first time these products , which form such a major part of modern eating , can be realistically assessed and used for health value . |
| 27 | I pursued the howling dog , hands clawed and teeth bared , stopping only when my rage was replaced by the realisation that for the first time in my life I 'd put another human being before myself . |
| 28 | Scientists then often speak of ‘ the scales falling from the eyes ’ or of the ‘ lightning flash ’ that ‘ inundates ’ a previously obscure puzzle , enabling its components to be seen in a new way that for the first time permits its solution . |
| 29 | Food shortages and the lack of heating or lighting in towns , and the time-consuming difficulties of finding ways round them for city-dwellers , meant that for the first time in a century , if not longer , life in the country was not to be despised . |
| 30 | Mrs Frizzell found it impossible to forgive Mrs Dawson 's becoming a widow the same week as her party ; a history of Mrs Dawson one night , and the remarks the following night of the lady secretary of the United Nations ' Society on the role of the Canadian peacekeeping force in Cyprus , had meant that for the first time in years no report of Mrs Frizzell 's party appeared , though room had been found for a report on one of Mrs Murphy 's receptions . |