Example sentences of "[vb pp] 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | He would have to be told ; any day now it would dawn on Tollemarche that it had spawned its first successful author , and he could guess the kind of jokes his father 's colleagues were going to make when they found out what kind of book he had written . |
| 6 | The Carroll Group 's £3m refurbishment of Martin 's Building in Water Street , Liverpool , has secured its first major letting . |
| 7 | It was confirmed in September 1990 that Dounreay had secured its first new contract for reprocessing with the Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt research reactor in Braunschweig to reprocess 39 spent fuel rods . |
| 8 | Steel purchase : British Steel has made its first major acquisition since privatisation , buying private group C Walker & Sons , of Blackburn , for £330m . |
| 9 | It devalued the coinage of the pediment and , by inference , cheapened those masterworks of the past in which the pediment has made its first noble appearance . |
| 10 | On St Valentines Day that year , the oil cartel , OPEC , had just had its first major success in forcing up in oil prices . |
| 11 | The Swansea and Neath Society was founded in December 1822 but made no appeal through a public meeting until January 1826 ; the Manchester Society , although becoming active at the beginning of 1824 , issued no report to the public until March 1827 and had only had its first public meeting on 22 March 1826 . |
| 12 | The Cuban missile crisis heightened fears on the Continent that a US-Soviet nuclear conflict could occur without any European control over events and de Gaulle decided that France , which had exploded its first atomic bomb in 1960 , must develop its own independent nuclear force . |
| 13 | Ottakars , the eight strong chain of bookshops in the south of England , has opened its first stand-alone children 's bookshop in a property next door to its branch at Banbury , Oxfordshire . |
| 14 | After 240 years , the Jockey Club has just got its first chief executive . |
| 15 | FIVE years ago LASMO Pakistan was formed , so with great pride the office has now celebrated its first long service awards . |
| 16 | The Minister added that the Serbian government had drafted its first integral environmental protection plan . |
| 17 | It had found its first practical test in United States hostility towards Libya in 1986 and was developed further during the United States intervention in the maritime conflict in the Gulf on behalf of Kuwait in 1987 . |
| 18 | British Telecommunications Plc has introduced its first end-to-end speech only international private circuit with the announcement of the International DealerLinkplus service running between London and Paris . |
| 19 | A TOP Ulster girls ' school has appointed its first Catholic headmistress . |
| 20 | Japan has appointed its first special ambassador for global environment affairs . |
| 21 | Napier University awarded its first overseas students ' scholarship certificates to seven students , in November . |
| 22 | It was during the Germania period that Nietzsche 's inclination toward ancient Greece seems to have taken its first definite shape , although his distaste for specialization remained . |
| 23 | The firm has also signed its first European distributor for Esix , UK firm Custom Business Systems Ltd , London , and will cut other deals in France , Germany , Scandinavia , Italy and Greece . |
| 24 | He expects a similar situation with Alpha , but says the company has just signed its first large contract in the US . |
| 25 | India 's new minority government has passed its first parliamentary test . |
| 26 | The University Union has elected its first black President for over 30 years . |
| 27 | Gresham Telecomputing Plc , which last week released its first full year figures since the merger of the Gresham Group with Telecomputing Plc in 1991 is betting its future on the market 's movement towards open systems , despite the fact that its revenues still come from traditional ICL mainframe customers . |
| 28 | The chemicals corporation ICI has published its first environmental report as part of a stated commitment to greater openness about its environmental performance . |
| 29 | The Open Graphics Initiative launched by Sun Microsystems Inc more than a year ago to provide an interoperable interface between graphics applications and hardware in the Sparc-compatible market , has published its first complete set of foundation libraries for developers . |
| 30 | THE Bank has published its first Corporate Environmental Policy Statement to inform staff , customers and shareholders of its commitment to protecting the environment . |