Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] its first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Russia 's space industry has won a contract to launch its first western satellite . |
| 2 | The Association appointed its first full-time Marketing Manager , . |
| 3 | The CUMS celebrated its first local congress in October 1982 and drew up an organizational structure to give equal representation to all the organizations of women which wished to participate . |
| 4 | Twenty years later , the Daily Mirror hired this car to transport its first million-pound Bingo winner , Mrs. Maudie Barrett to the Town Hall to receive her cheque . |
| 5 | The Academy of Culinary Arts launched its first residential course programme . |
| 6 | The great increase in air traffic made accidents almost inevitable and it was not long until Ayrshire had its first major air crash . |
| 7 | The Dow Jones Industrial Average and Share Index suffered its first annual fall since 1984 and its most serious since 1981 , closing the year at 2,633 . |
| 8 | The Korean armistice was signed in July 1953 ; the first Soviet hydrogen bomb was tested in August ; the RAF received its first British atomic bombs into service with the V Force in November ; and at the turn of the year , Foster Dulles announced the United States ' twin policies of ‘ massive nuclear retaliation and the containment of the Soviet Union ’ . |
| 9 | Exports , which used to be the engine of growth , are down and imports are way up — by so much that in 1990 Korea experienced its first current-account deficit in five years . |
| 10 | SCOTLAND has its first country-wide patients ' association . |
| 11 | Our surprise away win at Chamden City Reserves last Saturday means that Athletico Whaddon has its first unbeaten run in nineteen seasons . |
| 12 | So it 's something of a treat that the Discovery has its first British airing at Motorfair . |
| 13 | Group testing received its first big boost when the US entered World War 1 in 1917 to provide for the rapid classification of a million and a half recruits who needed to be assigned to suitable roles in the military machine . |
| 14 | BRITISH TELECOM INTRODUCES ITS FIRST END-TO-END SPEECH ONLY INTERNATIONAL CIRCUIT , LONDON TO PARIS |
| 15 | The following year both the Industrial Welfare Society and the Institute of Directors held conferences on retirement preparation , with the Preparation for Retirement Committee holding its first national conference in 1963 . |
| 16 | In the same year the British Museum acquired its first Swahili manuscript ( MS BL Or . |
| 17 | Eighty years ago the London County Council inaugurated its first electric trams . |
| 18 | The Institute 's Council held its first open meeting last month , in front of representatives from the national and accountancy press . |
| 19 | The newly elected 14th central committee held its first plenary session on Oct. 19 , when Jiang Zemin was formally re-elected as party general secretary . |
| 20 | In March Benin held its first multi-party presidential contest , amid north-south rivalries similar to those in neighbouring Togo . |
| 21 | It is reassuring to know that Gallacher was one of the players chosen to represent Scotland when the national team played its first overseas international against France in May 1930 . |
| 22 | Yesterday sterling enjoyed its first quiet day since the trade figures were released a week ago . |
| 23 | New station Classic FM won its first major award as Radio Programme of the Year for ‘ an outstanding contribution in all areas of its programming ’ . |
| 24 | The new station Classic FM won its first major award as radio programme of the year . |
| 25 | Meanwhile in 1772 the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew engaged its first professional plant collector , Francis Masson , and packed him off to South Africa from where he duly introduced a great number of exotic plants , at least two of which , Zantedeschia erathiopica and Amaryllis belladonna , are still grown in Trust gardens in warmer areas to this day . |
| 26 | In 1920 , Salisbury had its first double-deck buses even though they were secondhand . |
| 27 | In the autumn , ACE held its first major conference in Seville in order to take stock of the work achieved to date and assess the state of the profession ( by way of national reports ) on the eve of the opening of the Single European Market . |
| 28 | It was only in the 1850s , while Prussia was ‘ filling in ’ the gaps of its network by connecting up places like Danzig , that Warsaw received its first major rail connections . |
| 29 | China exploded its first nuclear device . |
| 30 | Pearson , the media group which owns a 17.5pc stake in BSkyB , dipped 3p to 514p despite the satellite broadcaster reporting its first full-year of operating profits . |