Example sentences of "[adj] it [verb] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | In February 1987 it became the first fluoroquinolone to be marketed in the UK under the tradename Ciproxin . |
2 | Under the reforms of Josef II , when the Jesuit Order was abolished , the Clementinum became a seminary under the supervision of the archbishop of Prague , and in 1799 it became the first Academy of Fine Arts . |
3 | Advocates of press freedom asserted that the Noriega tapes case had set a disturbing precedent in that it undermined the First Amendment by giving legal endorsement to the concept of " prior restraint " in the form of a pre-publication review of a pending news story . |
4 | In 1990 it became the first company to offer on-line access to data from Companies House on all limited companies operating in the UK . |
5 | In Persia , the nationalist movement was anti-European and by 1906 it produced the first Majlis and a liberal constitution . |