Example sentences of "[noun] and [vb past] its first " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is one of the best plays to have come out of Russia since Chekhov and received its first performance in this country in Oxford in 1966 , with Judi Dench and Ian McKellen in the cast . |
| 2 | The RIBA/ARCUK Joint Visiting Panel took over the task of visiting UK schools of architecture in October at the beginning of the 1992–3 academic session and made its first visit to the University of East London . |
| 3 | 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 ] . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Three of her works were played , one of them , a Trombone Concerto was commissioned by Paragon and received its first performance . |
| 6 | The team was formed just over two years ago under the tuition of Margaret Charlwood and made its first public appearance at Crystal Palace in November 1981 . |
| 7 | This grouping of some 600 technocrats published a manifesto calling for the introduction of a multiparty system and held its first public meeting on June 3 . |