Example sentences of "it [vb past] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1990 it became the first company to offer on-line access to data from Companies House on all limited companies operating in the UK . |
| 2 | Under the reforms of Josef II , when the Jesuit Order was abolished , the Clementinum became a seminary under the supervision of the archbishop of Prague , and in 1799 it became the first Academy of Fine Arts . |
| 3 | Car 2 was presented to the National Tramway Museum at Crich in 1963 , where it became the first car there to move under power in June 1964 . |
| 4 | In February 1987 it became the first fluoroquinolone to be marketed in the UK under the tradename Ciproxin . |
| 5 | In Persia , the nationalist movement was anti-European and by 1906 it produced the first Majlis and a liberal constitution . |
| 6 | With it came the first episode of Merseyside 's very own soap Brookside . |
| 7 | I did n't enjoy it when it happened the first time . |
| 8 | She says : ‘ It happened the first evening I arrived there . |
| 9 | Indeed , I have heard it called the first step on the path to true benevolence . ’ |
| 10 | Advocates of press freedom asserted that the Noriega tapes case had set a disturbing precedent in that it undermined the First Amendment by giving legal endorsement to the concept of " prior restraint " in the form of a pre-publication review of a pending news story . |
| 11 | It represented the first deployment of German armed forces outside German territory since the Second World War . |
| 12 | This had been floated in 1948 by the clothing establishment as a discreet gentleman 's fashion harking back to the golden days before ‘ socialism and formica ’ , but had been quickly coopted and camped up by the gay underground ; the more exaggerated aspects of this style caught the first Edwardians ' eye and , together with the Western Look that pervaded their favourite culture , American cowboy films , it formed the first youth style proper . |
| 13 | It marked the first occasion on which the UK had taken steps to grant political asylum to a refugee from another Western country . |
| 14 | It marked the first time that an Offshore Division production platform has been used to process oil or natural gas from a third party well . |
| 15 | Nevertheless it marked the first step — though only that — in the restoration of royal coinage inside West Francia . |
| 16 | It does n't bother me the way it did the first time . |
| 17 | And even if a miracle somehow happened and he agreed to try again , it would simply end up exactly the same way it did the first time . |
| 18 | ‘ It would bore the rest of the company even more than it did the first time . ’ |
| 19 | In July he saw his party make history when it won the first governorship conceded by the ruling party in 60 years . |
| 20 | The voice held the same polite incredulity as it had the first time . |
| 21 | She re-read the previous page , but by the time she 'd got to the bottom again it made as little sense as it had the first time . |
| 22 | By the time it published the first issue of its bulletin , STOP , in February 1980 the DUC had effectively changed from being an information and research group into an opposition group , as the bulletin made clear : ‘ After investigation into the hazards related to uranium and its by-products , the DUC feels that since uranium can not be mined safely , exploration should cease . ’ |
| 23 | The birth of Jesus thus came to be regarded as dividing time into two parts , because it ended the first phase of the divine purpose and initiated the second . |