Example sentences of "its first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ new ’ audit regime , heralded by the Companies Act 1989 , had its first anniversary in October 1992 . |
| 2 | As the theatre approached its first anniversary , this proved to be one of its most successful plays . |
| 3 | A FURNITURE recycling scheme celebrating its first anniversary has established itself as a lifeline for a town 's needy families . |
| 4 | The bill receives its first Commons reading in a fortnight . |
| 5 | Through its entrepreneurs middle-class society had made its first approaches to the masses . |
| 6 | Following the purchase of a Finnish company , it has landed its first contract with the Soviet Union . |
| 7 | After operating in the Czech and Slovak republics for the past 18 months , Leeds accounting software supplier Coda Ltd has not only won its first contract in Hungary , but also decided to open an office in Budapest , which began trading on April 1 . |
| 8 | CHOICE Hotels International has opened its first hotel in Thailand , the Quality Hotel Pinnacle in Bangkok . |
| 9 | Forte is expected to convert the Sterling , its first hotel at Gatwick , to its upmarket Crest brand . |
| 10 | Jointly owned by the BBC , EMAP and Haymarket , BBC Frontline installed its first Sun machine last year as its initial step away from VME to a more open , Unix oriented approach . |
| 11 | For the District the establishment of the UEMCC was of particular concern as Cranage was its first Chairman and Hickson a member . |
| 12 | The growth of the trust owed much to its first chairman , Sir Henry Dale ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 13 | Perhaps it was inevitable that when the Auditing Practices Board was set up in 1991 in the ashes of the old Auditing Practices Committee , Mr Morrison 's name should spring to mind as its first chairman . |
| 14 | Stanley Steward , its first chairman — who had been an electrical manufacturer in the private sector — mobilised considerable pressure from the ‘ county ’ set on his consumer Consultative Council , and lobbied both the Government and the Central Authority for a subvention . |
| 15 | It grew out of the work of the wartime Committee for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts and was set up in 1946 , with the great economist Lord Keynes as its first Chairman . |
| 16 | Resolutely opposed by two of Gardiner 's less-enlightened predecessors as Lord Chancellor , Simonds and Dilhorne , the Law Commission under its first chairman , Sir Leslie Scarman , soon earned acceptance as a valuable strengthening of the hitherto piecemeal procedures for revising laws which had become outdated or unsatisfactory in practice . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The CNAA machinery in the late 1960s and 1970s was powered substantially by its university membership , with major inputs from its ‘ industrial ’ members , including its first Chairman , Lord Kings Norton , and Michael ( later Sir Michael ) Clapham , who took over as Chairman in 1971 . |
| 19 | Taken at its first test session at Michelin 's Clermont Ferrand test track , they show the car still under heavy disguise but revealing some of the characteristics that should give it a place among the great supercars . |
| 20 | A much more serious crisis of a similar nature arose immediately after the Iraqi coup of July 1957 when the Hashemite dynasty was overthrown , and the Eisenhower Doctrine for the Middle East was put to its first test . |
| 21 | Amour propre ensured that France would emulate Britain ( its first test in the Sahara came in 1960 ) . |
| 22 | It is possible to argue either that the community charge has failed its first test as a device to improve the accountability of local government or that it has not really been tested at all . |
| 23 | Ray Hanna too G–FIRE up for its first test flight on March 14 , 1981 , in primer . |
| 24 | In its first test of popularity since independence in March 1990 , the ruling South-West Africa People 's Organization ( SWAPO ) won a landslide victory in regional and local elections held on Nov. 30-Dec. 4 . |
| 25 | The original store of ‘ goodness ’ which was created by evolution , and which must be axiomatically accepted as ‘ good' ’ within the minds of men if the Created God is to become a reality , acquired its first unit of man-made ‘ goodness ’ as the first product of civilisation . |
| 26 | Committing to offer Microsoft Corp 's NT on Precision Architecture RISC by 1995 , Samsung Electronics Co has launched its first workstation built around the RISC , which it makes under licence from Hewlett-Packard Co — six months later than originally planned . |
| 27 | The Polisario Front on Sept. 24 , 1989 , launched its first offensive against the 2,500-km Moroccan " defence wall " across Western Sahara since its unilateral declaration of truce at the end of 1988 ( see p. 36409 ) . |
| 28 | Erm the land is a disused airfield required very cheaply so there was no great exposure in getting that site away and its first occupiers were the company that had bought it and Asda did their own buildings to begin with for their own use . |
| 29 | The Royal Logistic Corps , which will hold its first parade in front of the Princess Royal on April 5 , is to be based at Deepcut . |
| 30 | Despite its first night technical problem , Les Miserables is expected to enjoy a successful run in Manchester . |