Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SGS-Thomson Microelectronics BV will get its second capital injection of $500m from its backers by the end of June , its French state shareholder CEA-Industrie says : it already has the first payment of $250m each from France and Italy . |
| 2 | It also became the first government since 1974 to serve a full four-year term ; a general election was due in October 1991 . |
| 3 | There is one tablet from Knossos which lists several deities including Potnia and Enualios , a name which later was used as an alternative to Ares , the Greek war-god ; it also has the first part of Poseidon 's name , ‘ po-se-da- ’ , but the end is broken off . |
| 4 | It also established the first Crofters Commission as a permanent body empowered to fix fair rents and administer crofting legislation . |
| 5 | It publicly demonstrated the first NT/SMP version running on a 16-processor Symmetry back in August to help Microsoft allay reports that NT 's SMP capabilities are severely limited and would require heavy re-architecting . |