Example sentences of "its first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its first political use had been by extreme conservatives against Bismarck ; during his struggle against the socialists antisemitism spread to all parties on the Right . |
| 2 | The Association appointed its first full-time Marketing Manager , . |
| 3 | He would have to be told ; any day now it would dawn on Tollemarche that it had spawned its first successful author , and he could guess the kind of jokes his father 's colleagues were going to make when they found out what kind of book he had written . |
| 4 | Its first successful pieces of legislation were repayments to Labour for their support during the election : the Trade Disputes Act 1906 , which reversed the Taft Vale decision and gave unions immunity from prosecution for non-violent acts in furtherance of an industrial dispute , and the extension of Women 's Compensation , also in 1906 . |
| 5 | That night in October was to be its first successful trial . |
| 6 | It was during the Germania period that Nietzsche 's inclination toward ancient Greece seems to have taken its first definite shape , although his distaste for specialization remained . |
| 7 | Its first new-car launch for 10 years , and the first new shape to be badged solely as a Bentley since the Continental R-type of 1952 , was launched with a fanfare that almost out-Victored Victor Gauntlett . |
| 8 | FIVE years ago LASMO Pakistan was formed , so with great pride the office has now celebrated its first long service awards . |
| 9 | Barbirolli 's accompaniment may be rumbustious rather than subtle , yet the music sounds as if newly minted , alive in all its first audacious ardour and novelty . |
| 10 | In 1880 he was seconded to the Royal Botanic Gardens , Kew , as its first cryptogamic botanist , and redoubled his mycological studies , publishing , among much else , his monumental eight-volume Illustrations of British Fungi ( 1881–91 ) . |
| 11 | The drug now faces its first serious contender in omeprazole , made by Astra , a Swedish firm . |
| 12 | THE Chicago Board of Trade , the world 's largest futures exchange , was slapped by the past this week when its chief regulator lodged its first serious complaint against the exchange , over an episode that took place three years ago . |
| 13 | The administration of President George Bush was subjected to its first serious alarm concerning the 66-year-old President 's health when , on May 4 , Bush was hospitalized after developing a rapid and irregular heartbeat . |
| 14 | Our surprise away win at Chamden City Reserves last Saturday means that Athletico Whaddon has its first unbeaten run in nineteen seasons . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It took another year before the group felt confident enough to organize its first semi-open event — a disco . |
| 17 | A TOP Ulster girls ' school has appointed its first Catholic headmistress . |
| 18 | In the last three months of 1990 , the Tribune Company recorded its first quarterly loss since going public in 1983 . |
| 19 | Indeed , as early as 1926 when the Universities Extra-Mural Consultative Committee ( UEMCC ) issued its first annual report , Pateman had written to Mactavish , then General Secretary of the WEA , expressing concern over the establishment of the inter-university committee : |
| 20 | A NEW tradition begins this week when the city of York holds its first annual St Nicholas Fayre . |
| 21 | Having considered this report the Council went on to state its commitment to the provision of approved re-entry programmes in its first annual report of December 1984 . |
| 22 | In its first annual report the government 's advisory group on the Youth Treatment Service condemns the regimes at Glenthorne and St Charles , for running unacceptable punishment systems . |
| 23 | The ICAS Lanarkshire association would like to hear from members who wish to attend its first annual dinner which is to be held at the Silvertrees Hotel in Bothwell on Friday 29 October 1993 at 7 for 7.30pm . |
| 24 | The UNC held its first annual convention on July 22 , 1990 , when Panday was elected unopposed as leader , with Rampersad Parasram as chairman and Kelvin Ramnath as general secretary . |
| 25 | The Dow Jones Industrial Average and Share Index suffered its first annual fall since 1984 and its most serious since 1981 , closing the year at 2,633 . |
| 26 | The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( EBRD ) held its first annual meeting in Budapest , Hungary , on April 13-14 . |
| 27 | In its first annual report the Central Land Board ‘ noted with concern some weeks after the Act came into operation that despite the liability for development charge land was still being widely offered and , still worse , taken at prices including the full development value ’ . |
| 28 | In its first annual report , it pointed to the difficulties in some areas particularly in the south-east and the west midlands where the available land was limited to only a few years ' supply . |
| 29 | In its first annual report , the NRA spelt out its intention to maintain a tough " watchdog " stance towards the water companies . |
| 30 | Its first annual report revealed that , in 1990 , Welsh Water reported 22 such incidents , while Severn Trent , which serves a bigger population , recorded none . |