Example sentences of "[prep] the [num ord] time [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the visitors pushed forward Ferguson was unlucky for the second time to have a effort cleared off the line , this time by Birney . |
| 2 | Then she discarded that , too , and left Corrie 's side for the first time to join in with the other children . |
| 3 | It was one thing to be opposed to discrimination ( and many of them now began for the first time to say that they did , indeed , oppose it ) , but it was quite another thing to talk openly about equal validity of sexuality . |
| 4 | In 1989 , however , the University allocated the VanDyck Gallery in Park Row to the Collection and the following year , which by a happy coincidence marked its 40th anniversary , the Theatre Collection was able for the first time to mount an exhibition in its own Gallery . |
| 5 | Jazz tossed his hair back for the first time to take in what was going on . |
| 6 | A PUBLIC inquiry today could make legal history as the Nature Conservancy Council attempts for the first time to purchase compulsorily a farmer 's land to protect a rich wildlife habitat . |
| 7 | In 1975 , Laura visited the United States for the first time to see the San Francisco venture for herself . |
| 8 | ‘ It is interesting when I bring someone like Rodney Marsh here for the first time to see his reaction . |
| 9 | They were also allowed for the first time to subsidize denominational primary schools . |
| 10 | It also ratified ordinances which allowed various crafts for the first time to organize their activities . |
| 11 | TOUGH Belfast-style stop and search tactics are to be used across Britain for the first time to combat IRA bombers . |
| 12 | The US-Soviet strategic arms reduction talks ( START — see p. 37223 ) resumed in Geneva on Jan. 22 with the signing of a new agreement allowing both sides for the first time to inspect each other 's nuclear warheads . |
| 13 | During this season in Johannesburg , John unexpectedly had the chance for the first time to dance a real role in public . |
| 14 | The Front comprised political and religious organizations and parties based in Iraq and Jordan , including the Moslem Brotherhood , which agreed for the first time to co-operate without preconditions with nationalist and non-religious groups . |
| 15 | British sport began for the first time to embrace commercialism , although the process was cautious and gradual . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They chatted quietly about old times — and daring for the first time to talk about the future . |
| 18 | Its also going to roll out ex-Next Computer linchpin Bud Tribble , now their vice president of end user software , for the first time to talk about future directions . |
| 19 | There he said , he was able ‘ for the first time to talk seriously with white Rhodesians about the future of the country . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The key point was that the bases paired , making it possible for the first time to seem how a chemical entity might be able to store and copy information . |
| 22 | A clutch of companies involved in technology from the Soviet space programmes has been given permission for the first time to deal direct with foreigners . |
| 23 | Party organisers want the conference to show that the party is united as never before , leaving Mr Kinnock free for the first time to sell the policy package to voters without worrying about splits . |
| 24 | Charles was left for the first time to conduct his own strategy in Aquitaine , no doubt with Judith to help him . |
| 25 | The UK government is for the first time to publish environmental conditions attached to the granting of oil drilling licenses . |
| 26 | But one thing , on behalf of the museum services , I would like to thank Doreen Griffiths for the help she gave us in our exhibition , ’ Memories of Change ’ , which you can see in the exhibition room over there , and she contributed a lot of photographs , and her memories , and allowed herself to be taped and have her memories in our archive , and for that we give her a great thank , because it 's not always easy for the , sometimes for the first time to begin talking into a tape-recorder , so we thank her very much , and thank you very much for coming in and performing for us today ! |
| 27 | Sufficient data stretching back to the mid-sixteenth century have now been assembled to make it possible for the first time to study short-term as well as long-term characteristics of demographic behaviour at the micro level . |
| 28 | Scholfield teamed up with Georgie 's Caper for the first time to win the Restricted ( Div 2 ) and then took the Open unchallenged on Confused Express . |
| 29 | It concerned only new developments and enabled local authorities for the first time to make town-planning schemes ‘ as respects any land which is in course of development or appears likely to be used for building purposes ’ . |
| 30 | The Economic League report on The Present Trend of Communism in Britain alleged that " the Communist Party has made full use of the Left Book Club , enabling it for the first time to make effective contact with some 50,000 members of the middle class " . |