Example sentences of "it [verb] the first [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jackson 's next work , An Essay on Bread ( 1758 ) , defended bakers and millers against malpractice charges levelled by Peter Markham [ q.v. ] and Joseph Manning , and it represents the first reliable book on the chemical detection of food adulteration . |
| 2 | In the wake of the Russian revolution , which she supported passionately , it became the first Communist party in Great Britain . |
| 3 | The Squires Gate route to the Airport , which was operated by trams until October 1961 , when it became the first post-war route to change to bus operation , was latterly operated in the summer season by double and single-deck cars , running alternately to Cabin and Bispham . |
| 4 | Poet Software Corp , Santa Clara , says it has the first object-oriented database system running under Microsoft Corp 's NT in the shape of Version 2.0 of the company 's Poet object database . |
| 5 | It has the first analytical group to hold Good Laboratory Practice ( GLP ) , National Measurement Accreditation Service ( NAMAS ) and ISO9001 certificates simultaneously . |
| 6 | It contains the first detailed plans for the Himalayas , which all the big names in the business have been working on for years . |
| 7 | According to a book I 've got it says the first ten games of that glorious start saw is in with 5 wins and five draws ( we then went and lost to palace in the last minute ) . |
| 8 | ‘ It marks the first genuine attempt to bring alive the remarkable range of heritage and culture which has sustained the area for hundreds of years . ’ |
| 9 | It constituted the first comprehensive review of management development since the mid-1970s , and the first time that management development requirements were discussed nationally in the context of an explicit notion of ‘ management ’ . |
| 10 | The chance of it getting the first two letters-ME-right is the chance of it getting the second letter- E-right ( 1 in 27 ) given that it has also got the first letter — M — right , therefore 1/27 x 1/27 , which equals 1/729 . |
| 11 | It established the first international trading link with the Singapore International Monetary Exchange ( SIMEX ) in 1984 . |
| 12 | Instead , Nijinsky came to the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe after a uniquely testing season — unique because it included the first Triple Crown since 1935 . |
| 13 | It saw the first public flotation of a building society , the first moves towards acquisition of a major bank , Girobank , by another society , some further widening of building society powers , a tendency for more societies to become ‘ tied agents ’ of insurance companies and further excursions by societies into the wider field of financial services . |
| 14 | When this came it represented the first archaeological exploration ever conducted , a landmark in man 's self-consciousness . |
| 15 | It possessed the first water-driven factory to be erected in Lancashire ( 1777 ) . |
| 16 | First , it omits the first two years of the Thatcher government 's record , when output fell 3.5 per cent . |
| 17 | However it claims the first three months of 1993 have proved profitable and reported that debt amounted to less than $3.3m . |
| 18 | It spans the first 15 years of the disease , from its appearance in the early 1950s to the Japanese government 's official statement that mercury pollution was to blame . |
| 19 | Just left of Engineers Slabs ( indeed it shares the first 15 metres ) i s Snicker Snack ( E2 5c , 5b ) . |