Example sentences of "for its first " in BNC.

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1 The most radical is to give one vote to each constituency party for its first 500 members , and an additional vote for every 250 extra members .
2 BRM 's F1 return had to wait until the new two-litre P25 was ready for its first full season in 1956 .
3 THE PGA European Tour , which started in Tenerife last year , will be moving north to Portugal for its first tournament of the Nineties .
4 But now California is poised for its first execution in 23 years .
5 Planning permission is awaited for stores in Plymouth , Exeter , Frome , Somerset , and Ferndown , Dorset , and last month the firm presented designs for its first Cornwall supermarket to Truro council .
6 IN A West End awash with naff musicals and compilation shows , an intelligent new comedy deserves a warm welcome and , for its first half at least , Ronald Harwood 's Reflected Glory at the Vaudeville is a cracker .
7 No newspaper in history has ever had such a lead story for its first ever first edition as the Glasgow Advertiser and Glasgow Herald , 207 years ago .
8 Charles Luker then gave a speech of reminiscences stressing the need to be grateful for ‘ those who had formed the Club and those who had kept it going for its first 50 years ’ .
9 For its first season the driver and guard of the Gondola were dressed as Venetian gondoliers , much to the amusement of the other platform staff .
10 It has planned an exciting programme of activities for its first ever BAYSDAY which it hopes will be attended by young people of secondary school age from all over the country .
11 The budget for its first year was set at F66 million and at F100 million for the next 12 months .
12 The Ministry of International Trade and Industry ( MITI ) has set aside £140000 for its first project directly related to robots .
13 Restaurant chain TGI Friday 's is using it for its first UK ad campaign , launched this month .
14 When the new Parliamentary Labour Party gathered on Monday for its first meeting since the election , I thought we were entitled to an apology .
15 However , while preparing for its first congress , a split occurred because of disagreements over private ownership of the means of production and land .
16 In July last year came the news that the WRVS was looking for its first chief executive .
17 Young otters do not like the water and quite often , mum has to forcibly shove the reluctant infant into the river for its first lesson !
18 After clearing customs , John flew the Corsair down to Alconbury , the venue for its first UK display booking , where Lindsey Walton and John Allison were waiting to greet him .
19 MOTORIST Janet Glover put her new £10,000 Toyota Corolla in for its first service — and got it back with an unwanted extra .
20 CENSORS have sliced 30 F-words from the movie Die Hard for its first screening on British television .
21 The quote is : ‘ At the inaugural dinner for its first showing at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum in April 1991 , Rand Castile , the director , admitted to a personal call from Henry Kissinger suggesting that he drop the show , diplomatic relations with China being at stake ’ .
22 Ray Hanna too G–FIRE up for its first test flight on March 14 , 1981 , in primer .
23 Now that it has flown the nest and decamped to Arden Hills , Minnesota , Control Data Systems Inc feels confident enough to start making acquisitions , and for its first , it has gone for Evernet Systems Inc , a Los Angeles network systems integrator that inter alia sells NetFrame Systems Inc servers .
24 Santa Monica , California-based Retix Inc warns that it expects net profit and turnover to be below analysts ' estimates for its first quarter ending April 3 : it expects operating results to be hurt by delays in releasing product enhancements for its RouterXchange 7000 series of routers to volume production , including support for IBM 's Token Ring network environment ; sales may be down up to 15% , and it may only break even or even worse .
25 In the 1580s the Turkey Company and the Venice Company were founded , and in 1592 they combined to form the Levant Company , which learned enough about the riches of the Indies for various members of it to organize the East India Company , which had about £68,000 trading capital for its first voyage and a charter granted on 31 December 1600 .
26 Observers expect the Santa Cruz Operation to announce a profit for its first quarter shortly : the market is expected to want the company to prove it can be profitable for one further quarter through to March — without Larry Michels — before issuing an initial public offering next April with the aim of going public in June .
27 Now that it has flown the nest and decamped to Arden Hills , Minnesota , Control Data Systems Inc feels confident enough to start making acquisitions , and for its first , it has gone for Evernet Systems Inc , a Los Angeles network systems integrator that sells NetFrame Systems Inc servers .
28 Although Phoenix House , looking for a star for its first list , was clearly ahead of its rivals , most of the nine houses which bid for A Suitable Boy put in six-figure offers .
29 At the inaugural dinner for its first showing at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum in April 1991 , Rand Castile , the director , admitted to a personal call from Henry Kissinger suggesting that he drop the show , diplomatic relations with China being at stake .
30 So that when the British Medical Association decided in the late 1950s to inaugurate a programme of discussions among its membership on an appointed ‘ Subject of the Year ’ , it was entirely fitting that for its first discussion-point it should home in on The Adolescent :
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