Example sentences of "its first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although headed by opposition MPs , it has grown independently on a national basis and held its first large scale rally in Colombo in late February 1991 . |
| 2 | Tom Taylor , mentor and leader , had died before the group had its first exhibition , but remains classed with his friends . |
| 3 | The hotel has just completed its first year of operation , which it celebrated with a month-long daily cake-cutting ceremony . |
| 4 | CHOICE Hotels International has opened its first hotel in Thailand , the Quality Hotel Pinnacle in Bangkok . |
| 5 | LOIRE producer Langlois-Château , is introducing its first Chinon wine to the UK . |
| 6 | KINSEY centred on a Birmingham solicitor and assumed cult-viewing status in its first run this year . |
| 7 | It now looks very well in a 15in pot , staked against wind damage and regularly fed , and in its first year yielded a crop of more than 3lb of berries . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | HO Circular ( 194/78 ) describing British and American research literature on policing is another typically apologetic , anti-intellectual document , for within its first few paragraphs it admits : |
| 10 | InterCity turned in its first profit in 1988–9 , only a year after transitional support was withdrawn . |
| 11 | It was in station catering , so long the Cinderella , that the changed order of the 1980s made its first mark . |
| 12 | The new dawn : Cuisine 2000 in its first month of service , August 1985 , on to Euston–Manchester run . |
| 13 | By the time CAMRA celebrated its first ten years it could pride itself on a large national membership and a series of hardhitting reports that had exposed the market domination of the big brewers and the shoddy beers they produced . |
| 14 | Lincat also announced last week its first overseas acquisition . |
| 15 | At the time when Poland has its first Solidarity prime minister , Hungary is to have free elections , and Britain is fed up with Mrs Thatcher 's authoritarian style , Labour should be seen to take democratic issues seriously . |
| 16 | Yesterday sterling enjoyed its first quiet day since the trade figures were released a week ago . |
| 17 | I long for the protection of a written constitution like that of the US with its First Amendment , which elevates freedom of expression above freedom to hide from intellectual challenge , or even vulgar verbal abuse . |
| 18 | MIDLAND BANK launches its first nursery today in Sheffield , spearheading a national drive to retain and recruit staff as the jobs market tightens , writes Helen Hague . |
| 19 | INTEL , the California-based semi conductor manufacturer , yesterday confirmed its first European manufacturing base is to be in the Irish Republic . |
| 20 | On the other hand The Young Riders came 51st in the ratings in its first week , trailing far , far behind all the modern myths about modern times such as The Cosby Show , Roseanne , Golden Girls , Cheers and Matlock . |
| 21 | In its first year Eurosport has enjoyed access to live transmissions of the athletics , motorcycling and Formula One Grand Prix circuits and acres of European football , an advantage which British Satellite Broadcasting , the ‘ squarial ’ company hoping to transmit next year , claims is unfair . |
| 22 | Five million West Germans can already receive Eurosport , and 17 million Continentals in all , and this week the company will announce its first simultaneous commentaries in languages other than English . |
| 23 | The better of them were for viola alone , including Brian Cherney 's Shekhinah , in its first performance : this alternates furious tremolando , sudden violent attack , and wistful melody , invented or quoted . |
| 24 | A second park , the theme of which Disney has not yet decided , is projected to welcome eight million in its first year ( 1996 ) . |
| 25 | In its first major acquisition since privatisation a year ago British Steel is buying C Walker and Sons , of Blackburn . |
| 26 | Steel purchase : British Steel has made its first major acquisition since privatisation , buying private group C Walker & Sons , of Blackburn , for £330m . |
| 27 | But the White House Chief of Staff , John Sununu , has started an inquiry into the administration 's performance in one of its first efforts in foreign policy crisis management . |
| 28 | He had already edited several popular movie magazines , but it was because of Bazin 's reputation as a theoretician that this new one , more highbrow , attracted from its first publication in 1951 a group of young , enthusiastic and iconoclastic critics . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The most radical is to give one vote to each constituency party for its first 500 members , and an additional vote for every 250 extra members . |