Example sentences of "the first time that " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not the first time that such considerations have arisen for readers of his fiction . |
| 2 | This will be the first time that an introduction to the range of MEDIA initiatives will have taken place in the city . |
| 3 | This was not the first time that George had attempted a figurative animal sculpture . |
| 4 | For the first time that anyone can remember , the Soviet Union has been buying at the London auction . |
| 5 | This will be the first time that the chief of the US central bank , effectively head-keeper of the capitalist conscience , has visited the Soviet Union . |
| 6 | It is the first time that Prince Charles has given direct financial help to a run-down urban area , and the Duchy has been granted a 125-year lease on the 0.6 acre site . |
| 7 | When the latest decision became known last night , Peter said that it was encouraging for Mansell , the Ferrari lawyer pointing out that this was the first time that the FIA had not confirmed a decision . |
| 8 | Indeed , this week was the first time that Graf had joined up with Kohde-Kilsch since the Olympics . |
| 9 | ‘ I realised for the first time that I have never been wanted : it really was such a revelation . |
| 10 | In a long statement read out on television after the evening news programme , the Politburo admitted for the first time that it was ‘ not indifferent ’ to the mass exodus of its people to West Germany . |
| 11 | In a long statement read out on television after the evening news , the Politburo admitted for the first time that it was ‘ not indifferent ’ to the mass exodus of its people to West Germany . |
| 12 | It will be the first time that the Unita leader has met a British minister , and only a few days ago the Angolan ambassador in London was assured by a Foreign Office official that there were no plans for such a meeting . |
| 13 | The current excavations are the first time that the theatre 's remains have been seen since that destruction . |
| 14 | But this is the first time that RA members are being so actively encouraged to trespass . |
| 15 | Truly to celebrate the sacrament for the first time , and to feel for the first time that the hands were the instruments through which God chose to nourish the souls of his people , could be overwhelming with gratitude or with penitence . |
| 16 | It would not be the first time that it had done so . |
| 17 | This is not the first time that Vitelli has insisted to Clara that his sexual desire for her is conjoined with an equally strong desire to kill/ fuck her father ( and , now , her brother ) : |
| 18 | This is the first time that the award has gone to somebody from the hotel and catering industry , or indeed from the service sector as a whole . |
| 19 | It was the first time that such an offer had ever been made ; initially , he was loath to put his sketches on public display — but he was also flattered . |
| 20 | It is the first time that troops have been brought in during an industrial dispute since the firemen 's strike in 1978 . |
| 21 | The correspondence , leaked to Labour 's Trade spokesman , Mr Gordon Brown , discloses for the first time that Lord Young appeared to plan with Professor Roland Smith , chairman of British Aerospace , to hide the figures rather than simply leaving the information to be ‘ scattered ’ in obscure documents in the hope that Parliament would not notice it . |
| 22 | The fight in Birkenhead was not the first time that Mr Field had crossed swords with the Labour left . |
| 23 | It was the first time that a US Secretary of State held official talks with East German leaders on their own territory , underlining Washington fears that a collapse of the East German reform process could imperil developments throughout Eastern Europe . |
| 24 | If he actually put his foot down and said , ‘ No , I think that 's ridiculous ’ , everyone shut up and listened , and I feel that this was the first time that he realised that he did have the powers of leadership , not only on stage but also off stage . ’ |
| 25 | At the July 1989 gathering of Heads of State on the island of Tarawa , in Kiribati , the South Pacific Forum placed the use of drift-nets in the South Pacific as its most important agenda item — the first time that an environmental issue had topped the agenda at a political gathering in the South Pacific . |
| 26 | This would be the first time that Japan 's ‘ self-defence ’ forces had operated far from home . |
| 27 | As I came down into Salisbury that day I knew for the first time that I had been happy . |
| 28 | This was the first time that the health service had ever been asked to make staff economies . |
| 29 | ‘ So boo to you , ’ I said to the murderer as I went through the gate — and noticed for the first time that there were no bushes there , just a little hedge of lavender . |
| 30 | There was more in this vein as they turned right , and Mungo realized for the first time that they were actually heading into the forest . |