Example sentences of "the first time [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , in the context of consensual sexual activity with a girl under the age of 16 , it states : ‘ Most of us think that acts such as oral sex are extremely serious ( perhaps more likely to disturb a young girl meeting them for the first time than sexual intercourse ) . ’ |
| 2 | For the first time since economic co-operation was established as one of the three " baskets " under the 1975 Helsinki Final Act , an economic meeting of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) was held in Bonn on March 19-April 11 . |
| 3 | LOGO and the languages which follow could allow people of the Third World to recover control of their cultural and educational development for the first time since elite education began to be Europeanised last century . |
| 4 | BRITAIN is dreaming of a green Christmas this year for the first time since artificial trees appeared in the shops . |
| 5 | Nomura 's president , Setsuya Tabuchi , had already resigned in June 1991 in connection with allegations of dealings with gangsters , but this was the first time that actual criminal activities had been alleged against the company . |
| 6 | It was the first time that 36-year-old Gilbey had been seen in public since being named as the man on the phone in the love-tapes scandal . |
| 7 | Wehave shown for the first time that small intestinal and whole gut transit is faster in patients with chronic radiation enteritis . |
| 8 | This is the first time that Western technology has been integrated with Soviet-designed reactors . |
| 9 | It is believed to be the first time that prospective officers have sought election on a collective basis . |
| 10 | This is by no means the first time that national security has been raised as a defence in legal proceedings against the Crown . |
| 11 | It was not the first time that Islamist sympathizers had succeeded in having action taken against a literary work — this had happened in 1959 and especially since the late 1980s . |
| 12 | In between the two mosques , in the great arc of roofs and terraces which surmounted the houses of Shahjehanabad , I saw for the first time that secret Delhi which lies hidden from those who only know the city from ground level . |
| 13 | It was the first time that FAB 3 , a new high-technology lifeboat prototype entered the water . |
| 14 | That marked the first time that solar neutrons were detected on the ground . |
| 15 | This is the first time that strict position-independent , copy number-dependent expression has been shown for a mouse gene in a transgenic mouse model , and these mice now provide a source of a stably-integrated transgene of immunological importance . |
| 16 | When she said this she looked full at him for the first time and ill though she seemed he saw in her eyes the full pride and command of an eagle . |
| 17 | While in 1965 at the Spencer Churchill sale top examples were changing hands for around £600 , and in the 1970s in the low thousands , the prices at the Castle Ashby sale shot up into the hundred thousands for the first time as new collectors , both Greek and American , competed against each other . |