Example sentences of "the first time [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harold Wilson 's government introduced the original Redundancy Payments Act 1965 , which gave redundant workers the right for the first time to a statutory severance payment if they satisfied certain qualifying conditions . |
| 2 | The music ranges from the familiar to the unknown — from an early opera played in its entirety for the first time to a unique performance of The Messiah where you can actually join in the singing . |
| 3 | ( Short , happy , slightly humorous speech when the groom is marrying for the first time to a divorced woman . ) |
| 4 | Initially he concentrated on Scotland , where the impact of railways had effectively opened the country for the first time to a large number of visitors . |
| 5 | In France the post of Secretary of State for War was given for the first time to a soldier ( the Maréchal de Belle-Isle ) in 1758 ; and in the second half of the century there was a slow but steady tendency for the most important officials concerned , the intendants d'armées and the contrôleurs des guerres , to be military men . |
| 6 | The youngster of today who comes to grips for the first time with a personal computer little imagines the wealth of mathematical inventiveness invested in the design of the software and in the electronic circuitry itself . |
| 7 | The ‘ fine boy ’ with the grim destiny is Thomas Fox , a boy of fifteen whose father , a small farmer , has entrusted him for the first time with a flock of sheep for Portsmouth market . |
| 8 | They looked at each other for the first time with a long , speculative look , weighing up the possibilities honestly and in much the same terms . |
| 9 | Showing no remorse , Parrott compiled a 75-break ; he took the lead for the first time with a more orthodox run of 83 in the next and then forged 4–2 ahead with a superb 70 clearance to black in frame six after trailing 58–0 . |
| 10 | In this study , the new treatment strategy of ‘ anacidity enhanced antibiotic treatment ’ was compared for the first time with a previously evaluated triple therapy regimen ( H pylori eradication rate : 92% . |
| 11 | SCOTLAND took the Amateur Home International Championship for the first time with an 11-7 victory over the Republic of Ireland at Prestatyn yesterday . |
| 12 | In 1853 his whole collected works were published for the first time with an introduction in which the editor , George Offor , hailed them as a weapon in the struggle against ‘ the mighty efforts ’ which were then being made ‘ to enthral the country in the Satanic yoke of popery or its dark ill-shapen brother Puseyism ’ . |
| 13 | He managed to stay off alcohol because for the first time for a very long time he was truly afraid . |
| 14 | For the first time for a long while , Corbett felt wanted and warmed to these simple yet sophisticated men so bound up in their own routine of prayer , work and study that they regarded any visitor as a visible sign of God 's grace . |
| 15 | That 's the first time for a couple of hours . |
| 16 | It was the first time for a long while that Tommy had come into the dining rooms for his morning break and Carrie had spotted him from the window as he pulled up outside and climbed down wearily from his horsecart . |
| 17 | At the end of the week , observers were optimistic , yet some still sounded a cautionary note : ‘ This is the first time for a long while I have seen people saying ‘ I want this drawing or painting ’ without any idea of speculation ’ , says Jan Krugier , ‘ but now we must keep control of the situation . |
| 18 | ‘ Father Tom , ’ he said , as if he were meeting Carey for the first time for a long time . |
| 19 | For the first time for a century woman discovered that men wanted something more human from them than a nun-like chastity , a bien pensant idealism . |
| 20 | ‘ I have made up my own mind where I want to go and I spoke to Frank Clark this morning the first time for a fortnight . |
| 21 | I 'll stick my neck out , come on , we 're going to say they 're going to do it , for the first time for a long long time . |
| 22 | That product there already either exists or we 're going to do it for the first time for an estate agent |
| 23 | A critic walking for the first time into a gallery may describe a colour in a picture as blue ; it will have been the scrupulous task of a conservator to have established that the particular colour in question was Prussian blue , and thus can not date before the eighteenth century . |
| 24 | The recruitment of colonial troops , mainly by the French who hoped by this means to offset the demographic superiority of the Germans ( a subject anxiously discussed in the 1860s ) , brought some others for the first time into a European environment . |
| 25 | The following is a typical example of the character of the RAF as I saw it for the first time about a couple of months after I got to Baghdad . |
| 26 | ‘ Refreshing , ’ she euphemistically called the British climate she was about to face for the first time as a ‘ star ’ . |
| 27 | As Doohan built up a lead of almost seven seconds , Rainey settled for second place on his Yamaha , 12 seconds clear of third-placed Daryl Beattie , of Australia , riding a Rothmans Honda for the first time as a replacement for the injured Wayne Gardner . |
| 28 | In Britain , David Lloyd George was succeeded as Prime Minister by Mr A. Bonar-Law , who headed a Conservative Government with the Labour Party for the first time as a formidable opposition . |
| 29 | I remember the excitement and relief I felt when I read it for the first time as a very young nun . |
| 30 | He was still staring at himself in the mirror , seeing himself for the first time as a man , not a boy . |