Example sentences of "[noun sg] in its first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Board gave indications of its thinking in its first Report to the Lord Chancellor and in a consultation paper issued in May 1989 . |
| 2 | It was not the UN 's fault that heavily armed SWAPO guerrillas violated the Namibian peace deal in its first hours by crossing the border into the territory ( see page 75 ) . |
| 3 | The membership of the ‘ political cliques ’ that assisted the entrepreneurs in running the Mexican Border Industrialization Programme in its first decade is described as : |
| 4 | He will be aware that there is still a problem in my constituency and the south-west with the burden of the business rate , but is not the last thing that small businesses want the layers of bureaucracy that would result from 10 new regional assemblies , new sex and race discrimination legislation and the hundreds of new quangos that Labour would put into practice in its first year of office ? |
| 5 | All the ambitions and aspirations which had animated the Criterion in its first years had either been abandoned or destroyed . |
| 6 | Shirescot , the UK smaller companies specialist trust launched by Glasgow Investment Managers in August , has achieved a healthy total return in its first four months . |
| 7 | It was meant to allow the driver the freedom to use his left foot for braking but the system was taken off the car at the end of the first practice session in its first race , the South African Grand Prix . |
| 8 | Robert Rudhall looks at plans for the Brooklands Museum in its first full year of opening . |
| 9 | The amendments have been made on the basis of recommendations by the Nature Conservancy Council in its first five-yearly review of UK species under the auspices of the Act , carried out in 1986 . |
| 10 | Lewesdon Hill is a fairly rare work in its first edition . |
| 11 | In addition to exploration success recorded in the Irish Sea , in the Southern North Sea LASMO made a gas discovery in its first well on operated block 44/16 [ LASMO 40 per cent ] which tested gas at rates of over 30 mmcfd . |
| 12 | The League 's failure in its first confrontation with a major power alarmed smaller , more vulnerable countries . |
| 13 | Given that , at least in the first year of the new council tax , there will still be two-tier authorities in the shires , I hope that the Bill will be as tight as a drum to ensure that the tiered authorities that are not up for election do not use that freedom from the ballot box — as happened in Nottinghamshire with the poll tax — to wreck the council tax in the way that they wrecked the poll tax in its first year . |
| 14 | TOTTENHAM Hotspur may not have got it quite right on the pitch , but off it , Spurs plc , chaired by the Amstrad tycoon , Alan Sugar , netted profits of £3.28 million before tax in its first half-year , against only £810,000 before . |
| 15 | Even his magnum opus , Perestroika , written in the summer of 1987 , contained the amazing notion in its first edition that ‘ if it had not been for collectivisation , we could have died from hunger in the war ’ . |
| 16 | THE discos and snooker halls group , European Leisure , currently embroiled in a Serious Fraud Office investigation , has moved back into the black in its first half-year to 31 December . |
| 17 | SIR Tom Cowie , chairman of motor retailer and financier T Cowie , told shareholders at the company 's annual meeting that trading in its first quarter was ‘ comfortably ahead ’ of last year . |
| 18 | MICHAEL JACKSON , whose recent world tour visited 34 countries , has announced that sales of his latest LP ‘ Dangerous ’ have topped the 15 million mark in its first ten months in the shops . |
| 19 | Give As You earn , as it is called , raised over £10m for charity in its first three years . |
| 20 | Mountain View , California-based Parallan Computer Inc says it expects its shipments of manufactured products to IBM Corp to fall , because it expects IBM to assume manufacturing responsibilities for the PS/2 Server 295 this year — the jump in its first quarter sales ( see page five ) was primarily down to increased ships to IBM , it said . |
| 21 | ‘ Initially , I was quite surprised how well the single went down , ’ says the Ealing-born vocalist/multi-instrumentalist ( the record went top ten in the national 12-inch chart in its first week of release ) . |
| 22 | SECOND Alliance Trust has again outperformed the FT Actuaries All-Share Index in its first six months , lifting its net asset value per share by 22.7 per cent , from £13.62p a year ago to £15.7p , compared with the index 's 19.3 per cent rise over the same period , writes George Duthie . |
| 23 | the claim is not straightforward under a policy in its first year |
| 24 | Harrods accepted its first design collection in its first year . |
| 25 | Jones 's book remained untouched on the shelves of Northumbria 's modest library in its first two years , even though it had good reviews ; and the influence of his research has been all but negligible . |
| 26 | The Chairman opened a well-attended meeting with a few words about the gratifying growth and vigour shown by the Society in its first year . |
| 27 | It proved its mettle in its first dive , an expedition to the Arctic to photograph the wreck of the Breadalbane ( New Scientist , vol 89 , p 136 ) , 105 metres down . |
| 28 | The National Government in its first three years thus operated on the curious basis of the Prime Minister depending to an unusual extent on the second man in the Government , and that second man in turn depending to an equally unusual extent upon the second man in his own party . |
| 29 | There will , no doubt , be the usual trimming of the sums requested ( about $2 billion over four years ) , but there is unlikely to be root and branch objection of the kind raised by Mrs Margaret Thatcher 's British government in its first few years . |
| 30 | Flying at full capacity which was highly unlikely — the airline could show a $9m profit in its first year . |