Example sentences of "[vb past] its first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1960s was the age of tanker terminals and oil production platforms and during the latter part of the decade Wimpey built its first aluminium smelter in Bahrain . |
| 2 | In Scotland the new dedication to ‘ the king over the water ’ found its first solid manifestation on 18 March 1689 , when one of the most famous of Scottish noblemen , and the ablest soldier in the country , John Graham of Claverhouse , led his troop of horse out of Edinburgh and in April raised James 's standard in Dundee . |
| 3 | Communism found its first means of expression in the various international organizations ( the Internationals ) that were established by Marx and Engels and their followers from the 1860s on . |
| 4 | As Carradine bled his life out in the Dream , Yggdrasil tasted its first cup of fear . |
| 5 | As the theatre approached its first anniversary , this proved to be one of its most successful plays . |
| 6 | Exports , which used to be the engine of growth , are down and imports are way up — by so much that in 1990 Korea experienced its first current-account deficit in five years . |
| 7 | He it was who had pressed for the creation of Christ Church parish , and he became its first incumbent ; Benjamin and Elizabeth had the singular distinction of having him officiate at their marriage — poor surroundings , then , but in the presence of a minister of great reputation . |
| 8 | In 1959 Cripps Hall was opened and Dr Lucas became its first Warden . |
| 9 | With the incorporation of the town in 1900 he was elected to the council , and became its first mayor . |
| 10 | In 1881 , when Brunner , Mond & Co. became a public company , he invested in it , became its first chairman , and remained a director until his death . |
| 11 | He became its first president . |
| 12 | In the first multiparty elections since 1968 , Frederick Chiluba , leader of the Movement for Multiparty Democracy ( MMD ) , was elected President on Oct. 31 , ending the 27-year rule of Kenneth Kaunda , who led Zambia to independence and became its first President in October 1964 [ see p. 20373 ] . |
| 13 | Remember when the US Interstate Highway system , designed to get people out of cities fast in the event of an emergency , failed its first and only test during the anti-Vietnam riots in Washington in 1968 ? |
| 14 | In 1960 the TBC commissioned its first audience survey . |
| 15 | In the week that Alan Sugar was revealed to be Britain 's top earner under the age of 45 , his company , Amstrad , announced its first loss in 23 years . |
| 16 | Digital Equipment Corp last week announced its first full Open Software Foundation Distributed Computing Environment product , DCE for DEC OSF/1 software , available in July . |
| 17 | Simultaneously , the company announced its first Unix-based Database Gateway product , a version for AIX , which provides access from DB-Library and Open Data Base Connectivity applications and enables the transfer of data between enterprise data sources and SQL Server . |
| 18 | DEC last week announced its first full Open Software Foundation Distributed Computing Environment product , DCE for DEC OSF/1 software , available in July . |
| 19 | Early in 1993 , LASMO announced its first discovery in Algeria , in the productive Ghadames Basin . |
| 20 | The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( EBRD ) , formed in April , announced its first loan to a post-communist east European country on June 25 , with a $50 million package to the Wielkopolski Bank Kredytowy ( WBK ) of Poznan , for heating enterprises in 10 Polish cities . |
| 21 | The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( EBRD ) announced its first loans to the Soviet Union , totalling $19,000,000 , on Nov. 26 . |
| 22 | SmithKline Beecham one of Wise Speke 's six companies in this year 's Share Race announced its first quarter figures last Thursday . |
| 23 | In September 1977 the decision was made to undertake the SPOT remote-sensing programme ; the SPOT- I satellite ( launched by Ariane , V- I 6 ) transmitted its first high-resolution pictures in 1986 . |
| 24 | The city 's Evening Standard produced its first Saturday paper in 16 years . |
| 25 | The US 's large Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor ( photo ) produced its first plasma on Christmas Eve . |
| 26 | Soon after the first Immigration Act , the DES produced its first major intervention , revealingly entitled English for Immigrants ( 1963 ) . |
| 27 | Ten years ago on 25 June the Joint European Torus ( JET ) experiment produced its first plasma . |
| 28 | The resurgence since late February of violence in Uzbekistan against the Meskhetian minority [ see p. 37257 ] produced its first reported fatalities on March 3 when at least three people were killed in clashes between Uzbek demonstrators and security forces in Parkent , near the Uzbek capital of Tashkent . |
| 29 | This did not get under way until 1943 , took in the first students in 1944 and produced its first teachers in 1946 . |
| 30 | In 1988 the National Radiological Protection Board produced its first report commissioned by the government into whether there was any link . |