Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [verb] its first " in BNC.

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1 RUSSIAN airline Aeroflot is starting its first scheduled passenger flights from Stansted , it was announced yesterday .
2 The Watt Committee is holding its first European conference in Strasbourg on 1–3 April 1992 .
3 The Institute 's Board for Chartered Accountants in Business is to hold its first national conference this autumn .
4 The Czech arm of the Business Software Alliance is prosecuting its first case under the country 's software piracy laws .
5 The London-based European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is to make its first 100 million US dollar loan ‘ soon ’ to Uzbekistan .
6 The recently-opened London office of the New York gallery Daedalus Ancient Art is having its first show in the premises of Rupert Wace Ancient Art , at 107 Jermyn Street , St James 's .
7 Washington area is to have its first meeting on March 17 at Wearside TEC .
8 And , of course , if the ferret is half-starved its first and understandable reaction on encountering a rabbit in a burrow is to kill immediately and then to settle down and eat it .
9 Unijet is launching its first branded product targeting latebooking holidaymakers , under the Sun Busters banner .
10 The International Telecommunication Union is holding its first World Telecommunications Standardisation Conference in Helsinki March 1 to 12 : the conference succeeds what was formerly called the CCITT Plenary Assembly , and follows the ITU 's restructuring announced last year .
11 A new brewery is producing its first beer this week .
12 NCR Corp 's Applied Digital Data Systems ( ADDS ) division is to show its first AlphaWindow terminal at Unix Expo to catch all those character-based applications unlikely to be converted to X : the terminal , based on AT&T 's 705MT multi-session terminal , supports the full AlphaWindow spec including mouse support and Motif-like windowing .
13 THE Ceredigion and Mid Wales NHS Trust is to hold its first public meeting on Thursday , June 24 at 7pm in the Lecture Theatre , Postgraduate Centre , Bronglais General Hospital , Aberystwyth , giving the public an opportunity to be kept informed on the key issues which the Trust is currently facing and to hear of proposed new developments in the pipeline .
14 A group which has been juggling with fire for the past year is staging its first play .
15 A WELSH record company is celebrating its first big success thanks to a local band .
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