Example sentences of "[verb] its first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MIDDLESBROUGH offshore business Northern Ocean Services has won its first major contract in seven years of operating from the former Smiths Docks site . |
| 2 | CCG has won its first major contract with BT Marine Ltd to provide catering and housekeeping services on board the 4,750 ton support ship the MV Discovery . |
| 3 | CCG HAS won its first offshore contract with BP Exploration , a multi-million pound contract to provide quality hotel standard service for personnel involved in the hook-up of two platforms in the North Sea 's Bruce Field . |
| 4 | Paraguay has its first civilian president in nearly half a century . |
| 5 | has its first civilian president for 21 years . |
| 6 | SCOTLAND has its first country-wide patients ' association . |
| 7 | Our surprise away win at Chamden City Reserves last Saturday means that Athletico Whaddon has its first unbeaten run in nineteen seasons . |
| 8 | The ( very ) steep section of the Cornice has its first new route of the year courtesy of John Hart . |
| 9 | So it 's something of a treat that the Discovery has its first British airing at Motorfair . |
| 10 | The Russian Republic has its first Green Party , formed at a meeting of environmentalists in Leningrad . |
| 11 | And Apple could introduce its first Personal Digital Assistant at the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago next month , MacWeek says . |
| 12 | In Scotland the new dedication to ‘ the king over the water ’ found its first solid manifestation on 18 March 1689 , when one of the most famous of Scottish noblemen , and the ablest soldier in the country , John Graham of Claverhouse , led his troop of horse out of Edinburgh and in April raised James 's standard in Dundee . |
| 13 | IN THE closing years of the twentieth century , the wind-swept island of Foula , 20 miles west of the main Shetland group , has reported its first recorded case of vandalism . |
| 14 | Russia 's space industry has won a contract to launch its first western satellite . |
| 15 | The Richardson , Texas-based manufacturer also gave a hint of its future plans : in the third quarter the company plans to launch its first full 80486DX pin-compatible processor , currently nicknamed the M7 . |
| 16 | However , despite its interests in all parts of the Euro-zone bounded by London , Paris and Brussels it has yet to launch its first British project . |
| 17 | Still , IBM is undeterred and hopes to launch its first pen-based computer some time this quarter . |
| 18 | A NEW tradition begins this week when the city of York holds its first annual St Nicholas Fayre . |
| 19 | In the cities a nascent proletariat was beginning to flex its muscles , forming short-lived illegal organizations of its own and staging its first major strikes . |
| 20 | Unijet is launching its first branded product targeting latebooking holidaymakers , under the Sun Busters banner . |
| 21 | These he expressed in the Working Men 's Club and Institute Union , founded chiefly on his initiative on 14 June 1862 in London , becoming its first paid secretary in 1863 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | And it looks set to see its first full-year profit drop in 28 years . |
| 24 | Simultaneously , the company announced its first Unix-based Database Gateway product , a version for AIX , which provides access from DB-Library and Open Data Base Connectivity applications and enables the transfer of data between enterprise data sources and SQL Server . |
| 25 | Digital Equipment Corp last week announced its first full Open Software Foundation Distributed Computing Environment product , DCE for DEC OSF/1 software , available in July . |
| 26 | DEC last week announced its first full Open Software Foundation Distributed Computing Environment product , DCE for DEC OSF/1 software , available in July . |
| 27 | In September 1977 the decision was made to undertake the SPOT remote-sensing programme ; the SPOT- I satellite ( launched by Ariane , V- I 6 ) transmitted its first high-resolution pictures in 1986 . |
| 28 | 73 The spreading cult of Sigmar the Patron God of the Empire receives its first Grand Theogonist , Johann Helsturm . |
| 29 | Soon after the first Immigration Act , the DES produced its first major intervention , revealingly entitled English for Immigrants ( 1963 ) . |
| 30 | The resurgence since late February of violence in Uzbekistan against the Meskhetian minority [ see p. 37257 ] produced its first reported fatalities on March 3 when at least three people were killed in clashes between Uzbek demonstrators and security forces in Parkent , near the Uzbek capital of Tashkent . |