Example sentences of "[vb past] its first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1960s was the age of tanker terminals and oil production platforms and during the latter part of the decade Wimpey built its first aluminium smelter in Bahrain . |
| 2 | As Carradine bled his life out in the Dream , Yggdrasil tasted its first cup of fear . |
| 3 | As the theatre approached its first anniversary , this proved to be one of its most successful plays . |
| 4 | In 1959 Cripps Hall was opened and Dr Lucas became its first Warden . |
| 5 | He it was who had pressed for the creation of Christ Church parish , and he became its first incumbent ; Benjamin and Elizabeth had the singular distinction of having him officiate at their marriage — poor surroundings , then , but in the presence of a minister of great reputation . |
| 6 | In 1881 , when Brunner , Mond & Co. became a public company , he invested in it , became its first chairman , and remained a director until his death . |
| 7 | He became its first president . |
| 8 | In the first multiparty elections since 1968 , Frederick Chiluba , leader of the Movement for Multiparty Democracy ( MMD ) , was elected President on Oct. 31 , ending the 27-year rule of Kenneth Kaunda , who led Zambia to independence and became its first President in October 1964 [ see p. 20373 ] . |
| 9 | With the incorporation of the town in 1900 he was elected to the council , and became its first mayor . |
| 10 | In 1960 the TBC commissioned its first audience survey . |
| 11 | Early in 1993 , LASMO announced its first discovery in Algeria , in the productive Ghadames Basin . |
| 12 | SmithKline Beecham one of Wise Speke 's six companies in this year 's Share Race announced its first quarter figures last Thursday . |
| 13 | The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( EBRD ) , formed in April , announced its first loan to a post-communist east European country on June 25 , with a $50 million package to the Wielkopolski Bank Kredytowy ( WBK ) of Poznan , for heating enterprises in 10 Polish cities . |
| 14 | In the week that Alan Sugar was revealed to be Britain 's top earner under the age of 45 , his company , Amstrad , announced its first loss in 23 years . |
| 15 | The US 's large Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor ( photo ) produced its first plasma on Christmas Eve . |
| 16 | Ten years ago on 25 June the Joint European Torus ( JET ) experiment produced its first plasma . |
| 17 | In 1988 the National Radiological Protection Board produced its first report commissioned by the government into whether there was any link . |
| 18 | The organisation planned its first fibre field trials in 1974 , and began them in 1977 . |
| 19 | In the outside world the Profumo scandal and Philby 's defection rocked Macmillan 's last government ; President Kennedy was assassinated ; the United States made its first air raids on North Vietnam . |
| 20 | It was in station catering , so long the Cinderella , that the changed order of the 1980s made its first mark . |
| 21 | It was identified on the surveillance radar when it made its first position report and was cleared to continue to the BN non-directional beacon . |
| 22 | It made its first journey in 1883 but by the 1960s had been run down to an ordinary train . |
| 23 | Those with long memories may recall that the Solo made its first appearance at the 1987 Frankfurt Motor Show , but that was only a mock-up prototype . |
| 24 | A new high-grade fluorescence spectrophotometer from Hitachi Scientific Instruments made its first appearance . |
| 25 | The invasion of the non-marine habitat probably first happened in the Carboniferous , but relatives of the living land snails are rare before the Cretaceous , at which time the familiar Helix made its first appearance . |
| 26 | In 1938 , just before Huggins reported on the treatment of prostatic cancer , Goodman and Gilman 's celebrated textbook of pharmacology made its first appearance . |
| 27 | The penny farthing made its first appearance in 1870 and was ridden round the world in 1884 . |
| 28 | Nonesuch the magazine made its first appearance in 1911 . |
| 29 | The word ‘ sex ’ made its first appearance in English in 1382 when John Wyclif used it in his translation of the Old Testament ( Genesis VI . |
| 30 | Eventually , some finance was provided and a weekly paper called Uhuru ( ‘ Independence ’ ) made its first appearance on Independence Day , 9th December 1961 . |