Example sentences of "for the first time [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dunlop refused and for the first time revealed that he considered himself to be the sole owner of the horse . |
| 2 | In 1889 the Prevention of Cruelty and Protection of Children Act for the first time outlawed proven cruelty to children and allowed children in certain circumstances to be removed from their families to a place of safety , usually a charitable institution such as Barnardo 's . |
| 3 | For the year as a whole turnover topped £100m for the first time rising 10.4pc to £101.6m . |
| 4 | Then she discarded that , too , and left Corrie 's side for the first time to join in with the other children . |
| 5 | His extraordinary run of successes had been halted , the links of his apparent infallibility for the first time broken . |
| 6 | In accordance with his wish to democratize the independence movement , on May 15 the Tibetan People 's Deputies ( a parliament-in-exile ) for the first time elected the three-member Cabinet hitherto appointed by the Dalai Lama . |
| 7 | In addition , the research will for the first time analyse the political processes associated with the determination and issuance of standards through case studies of data communication and ISDN ( Integrated Services Digital Network ) standards . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | On Sept. 20 he said that prospects for an October peace conference were still uncertain , although the USA was " for the first time bringing pressure to bear on Israel " . |
| 10 | This demand was indeed radical since women were for the first time trying to achieve some independence as persons and to exercise some power as individuals in their own right . |
| 11 | Trusts for the first time made it easy to create a right in a person who would have been a third party at civil law . |
| 12 | Alcalá Galiano 's explanation was simple : ‘ the repugnance of the rank and file against embarking for America ’ for the first time made soldiers and sergeants receptive to ‘ the sublime and generous ideas of their officers ’ . |
| 13 | A ( Soviet ) DRA proposal at the Geneva talks in February 1987 for the first time made public a time frame for Soviet withdrawal , eighteen months , with no conditions attached to the process of ‘ national reconciliation ’ in Afghanistan . |
| 14 | On Feb. 6 the World Bank for the first time made major loans to Poland for structural adjustment purposes , totalling $360,000,000 , while indicating that loans in the pipeline could total five times that amount in 1990 . |
| 15 | Lady Cook subsequently lent it to the National Gallery , London , from October 1989 to February of this year , where , for the first time seen in the company of undisputed masterpieces by Antonello , its autograph status as an Antonello was regained . |
| 16 | As she returned the firm handclasp Lindsey 's smiling gaze for the first time took in the neat , wide-belted white dress , topped by a dark cardigan . |
| 17 | For example , a recent act of Parliament has for the first time enabled citizens to own and operate radio stations . |
| 18 | For example , a recent act of Parliament has for the first time enabled citizens to own and operate radio stations . |
| 19 | He met the descendants of Lascar seamen or other immigrants who settled into Liverpool and for the first time saw the need for justice to an immigrant community . |
| 20 | Despite Kipling 's dictum that " Never the twain shall meet " , the East had reached out and touched the West with a premonition , perhaps , of the planetary holism which was to grip our minds less than a century later when we walked on the moon , looked back , and for the first time saw the whole earth rising as a single bubble of life . |
| 21 | Aloud he said , ‘ Is Fergus completely lost to us ? ’ and for the first time saw the golden-eyed creature hesitate . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Jazz tossed his hair back for the first time to take in what was going on . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Delegations attending for the first time came from Cambodia , Egypt ( with 250,000 French-speakers ) , Bulgaria ( with 350,000 ) , and Romania ( with 1,100,000 ) . |
| 26 | In 1975 , Laura visited the United States for the first time to see the San Francisco venture for herself . |
| 27 | ‘ It is interesting when I bring someone like Rodney Marsh here for the first time to see his reaction . |
| 28 | She accepted a glass of water and for the first time looked round in order to take in the room and the people before her . |
| 29 | Shamlou stood before her , and for the first time looked properly at his victim . |
| 30 | Also on Jan. 8 at the weekly Monday demonstration in Leipzig protesters chanted anti-SED slogans and for the first time called for the resignation of both Modrow and Gregor Gysi ( who had replaced Egon Krenz as SED leader in December — see p. 37108 ) . |