Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] its first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new company is already working on its first major contract , worth £20 million , to rebuild the country 's naval base . |
| 2 | The interior was still waiting for its first clean and the upholstery felt as if it had been textured in buff nicotine . |
| 3 | By then , not only had the Nationalist seventh Division failed to enter Madrid , it had also failed in its first attempt to isolate the city from its northern defences in the Sierra de Guadarrama . |
| 4 | The CPNI was not instrumental in creating NICRA but it was well represented on its first executive committee : Noel Harris of AUEW TASS , a CPNI member , was the first chairman ; Derek Peters of the CPNI was secretary ; and Betty Sinclair of the Belfast trades council was elected to the committee . |
| 5 | The way in which the three parts of Hobbes 's system are meant to hang together and the methodology by which they are worked out in detail is , of course , most fully explained in its first part , De Corpore . |