Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] its first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A female , instead of manufacturing the maximum number of eggs that can be created from her bodily reserves , may produce rather fewer but give each one a better chance of survival by supplying it with food in some way , so that it is sustained during its first difficult days . |
| 2 | In July last year came the news that the WRVS was looking for its first chief executive . |
| 3 | The interior was still waiting for its first clean and the upholstery felt as if it had been textured in buff nicotine . |
| 4 | Reporting on its first national investigation into waste disposal in the USA on April 3 , 1989 , the US Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) concluded that US industry was placing a " startlingly and unacceptably high " volume of toxic substances into the land , water and air . |
| 5 | Girding its loins for a deeper plunge into the commercial market , Hewlett-Packard Co last week announced a strategic relationship with Lotus Development Corp that will see Lotus Notes , cc:Mail , Ami Pro and Freelance Graphics ported to its first native Unix platform , HP/UX . |
| 6 | The M. C. R. voted in its first African President . |
| 7 | Since bleomycin degrades DNA in a catalytic fashion , and all our cleavage experiments are performed at very low antibiotic concentrations ( nanomolar ) , it must dissociate from its first binding site before a second cleavage event can occur . |
| 8 | The administration of President George Bush was subjected to its first serious alarm concerning the 66-year-old President 's health when , on May 4 , Bush was hospitalized after developing a rapid and irregular heartbeat . |
| 9 | As she drew near the fence she saw that the poor struggling captive was little more than a baby in size , although it was covered with its first soft coat of wool . |
| 10 | In 1973 , the US Army engaged in its first domestic operation since the Civil War when its forces , including armored cars , assisted heavily armed FBI agents in laying siege to the village of Wounded Knee . |
| 11 | In 1973 , the US Army engaged in its first domestic operation since the Civil War when its forces , including armored cars , assisted heavily armed FBI agents in laying siege to the village of Wounded Knee . |
| 12 | Thornton was trying to hijack their project — the baby they had nursed to its first hesitant steps . |
| 13 | The new company is already working on its first major contract , worth £20 million , to rebuild the country 's naval base . |