Example sentences of "it first [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since it first met 15 months ago , the council has spent £732 000 setting itself up but seems no nearer completing its task of replacing the ineffectual Council of Engineering Institutions in such areas as improving engineering education , taking over registration of engineers and improving the status of the profession . |
| 2 | It first attained some prominence during the Han dynasty when contacts with the west were intensified . |
| 3 | Head teacher Marcus Thacker said he hoped the Roughwood Drive schoolwhich now tops the Knowsley table of arson-hit schools will finally get the £70,000 security fence it first requested four years ago . |
| 4 | Head teacher Marcus Thacker said he hoped the Roughwood Drive school which now tops the Knowsley table of arson-hit schoolswill finally get the £70,000 security fence it first requested four years ago . |
| 5 | Since it first started 51 years ago , opencast mining , too , has seen remarkable changes . |
| 6 | It first appeared three lines ago where it referred to the suns ability to give life to the earth of a cold star . |