Example sentences of "government for [art] first time " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the Liberals , they gained an indirect foothold in government for the first time since 1931 in peacetime circumstances , and it flattered their self-esteem as a small third force to become part of the governing process . |
| 2 | But as the Labour parliamentary front bench scents the thaw , and surveys the possibility of government for the first time in a decade , the party pressures running in favour of detente are increasing . |
| 3 | These sharp increases will contrast with below-inflation rent rises of 95 pence a week in about 156 local authority areas , as the Government for the first time moves away from a single national rents policy for the 4.5 million council tenants in England . |
| 4 | The Christian Democrats got only 38.7% of the vote , against 45.1% four years ago , and are being booted out of the government for the first time since the state was founded 45 years ago . |
| 5 | Introduced by the government for the first time in the Local Government Bill , the county consists of only two districts and is dominated by Cardiff which at the time contained ‘ just about the only pocket of Conservative Party strength in south Wales ’ ( Wond 1976 : 127 ) . |
| 6 | President Reagan openly backs the Contra guerillas against the Nicaraguan Sandinista Government for the first time . |
| 7 | On March 18 , the United Kingdom government for the first time gave permission for 375 relatives of Argentinian soldiers killed in the 1982 Falklands war to visit their graves on the islands . |
| 8 | Labour Party members had taken part in government for the first time under the wartime coalition of Lloyd George and with the support of the party 's National Executive Committee . |
| 9 | Conservative commentators are urging Republicans to stage an all-out attack on Mr Clinton as an old-fashioned ‘ tax-and-spend ’ liberal , locked out of government for the first time since 1981 , |