Example sentences of "that [prep] the first time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point is , that for the first time in decades , the environmentalists have a powerful voice — and a Government which claims to listen . |
| 2 | It was that for the first time something illogical had crept into her world . |
| 3 | The significance was not that a testator 's intentions were allowed to play more freely , but that for the first time the law was dealing with an open rather than a closed system , a system that offered unlimited possibilities for expansion . |
| 4 | I do n't know whether it affects anyone else but what happened to me was that for the first time in my adult life I began to feel part of a community . |
| 5 | What was new in Althusser was that for the first time this epistemological tradition was developed for a Marxism . |
| 6 | It is said that one of the merits of ‘ Documenta ’ this time round is that , with four much-travelled curators , it is truly international in its scope , and that for the first time it takes account of artists not operating in the great ‘ art capitals ’ … |
| 7 | They believe it will mean that for the first time in El Salvador 's history , there will be genuine political freedom . |
| 8 | He noticed too that for the first time since he had arrived at the Cages there was a total silence , as if all the eagles , and all the imprisoned creatures thereabout had instinctively understood that this old eagle 's troubled painful words marked an end to a terrible life ; and perhaps in some strange way the beginning of something none dared hope might come to pass . |
| 9 | Only out on the water with Pedro panting in the prow had she dared to admit that for the first time in her life she had felt herself a prisoner at the Hall . |
| 10 | Does he also admit that for the first time in the history of the national health service , waiting lists for day patients and in-patients combined have risen above 900,000 people ? |
| 11 | It is true , of course , that for the first time in 75 years , Russia now has in place the mechanisms of national democracy — a government whose president has been elected and a parliament able to enforce , by argument and voting , restraints on what the government does , as well as a constitutional court . |
| 12 | And I think a significant point is that for the first time in ninety three we were likely to take something in , in relation to B Sky B. |
| 13 | They were like that from the first time I met them . ’ |