Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] its first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | MIDDLESBROUGH offshore business Northern Ocean Services has won its first major contract in seven years of operating from the former Smiths Docks site . |
| 3 | CCG has won its first major contract with BT Marine Ltd to provide catering and housekeeping services on board the 4,750 ton support ship the MV Discovery . |
| 4 | CCG HAS won its first offshore contract with BP Exploration , a multi-million pound contract to provide quality hotel standard service for personnel involved in the hook-up of two platforms in the North Sea 's Bruce Field . |
| 5 | The Carroll Group 's £3m refurbishment of Martin 's Building in Water Street , Liverpool , has secured its first major letting . |
| 6 | Steel purchase : British Steel has made its first major acquisition since privatisation , buying private group C Walker & Sons , of Blackburn , for £330m . |
| 7 | It devalued the coinage of the pediment and , by inference , cheapened those masterworks of the past in which the pediment has made its first noble appearance . |
| 8 | Ottakars , the eight strong chain of bookshops in the south of England , has opened its first stand-alone children 's bookshop in a property next door to its branch at Banbury , Oxfordshire . |
| 9 | British Telecommunications Plc has introduced its first end-to-end speech only international private circuit with the announcement of the International DealerLinkplus service running between London and Paris . |
| 10 | A TOP Ulster girls ' school has appointed its first Catholic headmistress . |
| 11 | Japan has appointed its first special ambassador for global environment affairs . |
| 12 | India 's new minority government has passed its first parliamentary test . |
| 13 | The University Union has elected its first black President for over 30 years . |
| 14 | The Open Graphics Initiative launched by Sun Microsystems Inc more than a year ago to provide an interoperable interface between graphics applications and hardware in the Sparc-compatible market , has published its first complete set of foundation libraries for developers . |
| 15 | The chemicals corporation ICI has published its first environmental report as part of a stated commitment to greater openness about its environmental performance . |
| 16 | THE Bank has published its first Corporate Environmental Policy Statement to inform staff , customers and shareholders of its commitment to protecting the environment . |
| 17 | A local group has formed to oppose the mining and has held its first public meeting . |
| 18 | It was during the Germania period that Nietzsche 's inclination toward ancient Greece seems to have taken its first definite shape , although his distaste for specialization remained . |
| 19 | It was confirmed in September 1990 that Dounreay had secured its first new contract for reprocessing with the Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt research reactor in Braunschweig to reprocess 39 spent fuel rods . |
| 20 | He would have to be told ; any day now it would dawn on Tollemarche that it had spawned its first successful author , and he could guess the kind of jokes his father 's colleagues were going to make when they found out what kind of book he had written . |
| 21 | The Minister added that the Serbian government had drafted its first integral environmental protection plan . |
| 22 | The Cuban missile crisis heightened fears on the Continent that a US-Soviet nuclear conflict could occur without any European control over events and de Gaulle decided that France , which had exploded its first atomic bomb in 1960 , must develop its own independent nuclear force . |
| 23 | It had found its first practical test in United States hostility towards Libya in 1986 and was developed further during the United States intervention in the maritime conflict in the Gulf on behalf of Kuwait in 1987 . |