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 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 . ’
8 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 ’ .
9 It established the first international trading link with the Singapore International Monetary Exchange ( SIMEX ) in 1984 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 When this came it represented the first archaeological exploration ever conducted , a landmark in man 's self-consciousness .
13 It possessed the first water-driven factory to be erected in Lancashire ( 1777 ) .
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