Example sentences of "for the first time [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Launched by the Princess of Wales in 1988 , the hospice entered the Awards for the first time using its 1990 accounts which covered its first operational year with a full complement of staff . |
| 32 | Compiled annually , it is a voluminous source which can now be fully exploited for the first time using computer techniques . |
| 33 | In Education there were substantially increased admissions to Initial Teacher Education ( ITE ) including for the first time intending teachers of Business Studies . |
| 34 | He nodded , and for the first time paused and looked into her eyes . |
| 35 | The UK government has for the first time ruled out the award of oil and gas exploration licences in certain areas on environmental grounds . |
| 36 | They were also allowed for the first time to subsidize denominational primary schools . |
| 37 | The deputy chairman of the UN Special Commission on Iraq , Robert Galucci , said in Bahrain on Jan. 14 that Iraq had for the first time admitted " pursuing a production-scale centrifuge enrichment programme rather than simply a research programme " , after UN inspectors confronted Iraqi officials with evidence supplied by Germany showing the involvement of German firms in this programme . |
| 38 | Choi Chong-Sun , head of the Atomic Energy Industry Ministry 's foreign affairs bureau , denied that North Korea possessed a reprocessing plant , but for the first time admitted that the " nuclear reprocessing cycle " was under study . |
| 39 | The year 1966 was when the number of people paying a TV licence for the first time exceeded the number paying a radio licence . |
| 40 | The Commission published a report on competition policy on June 24 , 1991 , in which it said that the number of intra-EC mergers among larger companies had in 1990 for the first time exceeded that of purely national mergers . |
| 41 | The mid-century gold rush to Australia added further to the supply of diamonds , but it was the development of the South African mines that for the first time brought a dramatic increase in the volume of production . |
| 42 | Sometimes the initial claims made were much exaggerated : as the claim made in New Testament studies that the computer would for the first time reveal the true lineaments of the Bible that we had ignorantly worshipped . |
| 43 | A subset of the data is now being incorporated into a multinational comparative data set being compiled by Professor Gershuny at the University of Bath , which for the first time enables comparisons of trends in time use , for similar social groups , across time and across countries . |
| 44 | It also ratified ordinances which allowed various crafts for the first time to organize their activities . |
| 45 | There is an objectivity behind the subjectivity of our preferences which entitles you to recommend to me a dish which you do not choose yourself and which I have hitherto been repelled by , but may come to like if I can forget my prejudices and for the first time attend closely to the flavour . |
| 46 | For many , the thought of leaving their parents for the first time left them subdued . |
| 47 | TOUGH Belfast-style stop and search tactics are to be used across Britain for the first time to combat IRA bombers . |
| 48 | It is during the summer , and before the September denouement , that the voices of the women compositors for the first time become audible to the historian . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | Barton Lynch , sitting out the qualifying rounds and waiting for the main event , recalled the 1988 Billabong , which for the first time had been held at Pipeline . |
| 51 | However , on the strength of findings by a joint historical commission formed in 1987 to resolve " blank spots " in Polish-Soviet relations , in March 1989 the Polish authorities for the first time had contradicted the official Soviet line and had openly accused the Soviet Union of responsibility [ see p. 36535 ] . |
| 52 | Representatives of West Berlin , which is not a constituent part of the Federal Republic , in both the Bundestag and Bundesrat have since May 1990 for the first time had full voting rights in both bodies . |
| 53 | It 'll change as you get older erm you wo n't necessarily just have that all the time we used to run these courses for students who had just come out of college and they were joining their company to work for the first first time and we used to do this and we used to find that many of the people who had just taken out the job for the first time had very very flat scores . |
| 54 | To rid herself of the nightmare voice that for the first time had spoken clearly and terribly in the full rational light of day . |
| 55 | Senior British Government officials for the first time said yesterday that while a trip by two Tory strategists to the US during the campaign had been cleared by the Conservative Party chairman , Sir Norman Fowler , he had not told Mr Major . |
| 56 | Since that meeting , I am glad that the industry has announced its plan to double the number of insurance ratings , for the first time taking account of factory-fitted security measures in assessing insurance grouping . |
| 57 | As this was fastened and he was made ready for departure , the prince for the first time seemed ill-at-ease — as if only then did he sense the poignancy of the moment and was after all loath to go . |
| 58 | During this season in Johannesburg , John unexpectedly had the chance for the first time to dance a real role in public . |
| 59 | Not for the first time says the statement have the killers shown any trace of humanity or respect for public opinion . |
| 60 | 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 . |