Example sentences of "and [verb] its [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the incorporation of the town in 1900 he was elected to the council , and became its first mayor . |
| 2 | In the first multiparty elections since 1968 , Frederick Chiluba , leader of the Movement for Multiparty Democracy ( MMD ) , was elected President on Oct. 31 , ending the 27-year rule of Kenneth Kaunda , who led Zambia to independence and became its first President in October 1964 [ see p. 20373 ] . |
| 3 | The locomotive is due to arrive at Bury by road and make its first appearance at a hastily-organised Great Western Weekend over the weekend of November 14–15 . |
| 4 | The prototype was converted from a production KI.107 and made its first flight over thirty years age , in December 1960 . |
| 5 | At the specific request from an Australian customer , the only low pressure tyre CC version for operation from unprepared landing strips was manufactured , and made its first flight in April 67 . |
| 6 | The RIBA/ARCUK Joint Visiting Panel took over the task of visiting UK schools of architecture in October at the beginning of the 1992–3 academic session and made its first visit to the University of East London . |
| 7 | The team was formed just over two years ago under the tuition of Margaret Charlwood and made its first public appearance at Crystal Palace in November 1981 . |
| 8 | It was founded in 1874 , and admitted its first female student in 1948 . |
| 9 | This did not get under way until 1943 , took in the first students in 1944 and produced its first teachers in 1946 . |
| 10 | The preceding decades had been dominated by the old-style realism of the regionalist novel , which reached its high point in the 1920s with the publication of José Eustasio Rivera 's The Vortex ( 1924 ) , Ricardo Güiraldes 's Don Segundo Sombra ( 1926 ) and Rómulo Gallegos 's Doña Barbara ( 1929 ) and produced its last major work , Ciro Alegría 's Broad and Alien is the World , in 1941 . |
| 11 | At this plenum Gorbachev was highly critical of the CPL leadership , declaring its action " illegitimate " and invalid and condemning its first secretary Algirdas Brazauskas for compromising with nationalist and separatist forces . |
| 12 | In the cities a nascent proletariat was beginning to flex its muscles , forming short-lived illegal organizations of its own and staging its first major strikes . |
| 13 | Her conversion helped to make the BDDA at long last take the plunge and appoint its first paid staff . |
| 14 | Ethics , religion , culture and education are the four key elements of a new Study and Action Programme which will guide WACC during the next five years and shape its second international congress in 1995 . |
| 15 | This is one of the best plays to have come out of Russia since Chekhov and received its first performance in this country in Oxford in 1966 , with Judi Dench and Ian McKellen in the cast . |
| 16 | Three of her works were played , one of them , a Trombone Concerto was commissioned by Paragon and received its first performance . |
| 17 | This led to a great setback for the Company ; by the early 1680s it seemed to have established itself , and paid its first dividends , at about 50 per cent a year , but it was then caught up in England 's wars against France , the bases were captured , and no regular dividends could be paid until after it had got its property back under the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 . |
| 18 | The ‘ plane lumbered around , came back into the wind , and began its second run in over the target zone . |
| 19 | It began in Rebekah 's womb , continued over a bowl of lentil soup , and finished its first round beside the bed of the dying Isaac . |
| 20 | After thanking all Scottish Nuclear staff for their ‘ quite exceptional ’ efforts over the year , the Chairman ended , ‘ I remain confident Scottish Nuclear can continue to improve its competitiveness and maintain its first class record of safety . |
| 21 | And to mark its 80th anniversary , the company has launched Louis Philippe — a collection inspired by the elegant furniture of mid-19th-century France . |
| 22 | While Hughes Aircraft , for example , was offering $18m in goods and services for the rebuilding effort ( its boss , Michael Armstrong , was an RLA board member ) Hughes 's parent , General Motors , was shedding 2,600 local jobs and closing its last remaining car plant in the area . |
| 23 | As Garry 's already mentioned started back in nineteen eighty five and delivered its first products in eighty seven . |
| 24 | US concessions would allow the Soviet Union partially to modernize and test its next generation of SS-18 intercontinental ballistic missiles ( ICBMs ) and leave the Soviet Backfire bomber out of the START treaty . |
| 25 | In between comes a short pièce d'occasion by Brahms , written in 1853 as a surprise birthday present for the violinist Joachim , and receiving its first commercial recording . |
| 26 | Although headed by opposition MPs , it has grown independently on a national basis and held its first large scale rally in Colombo in late February 1991 . |
| 27 | In 1989 the RSC published a survey on Education , employment and attitudes of men and women members and , partly as a result of this report , the Women Chemists Committee ( WCC ) was set up and held its first meeting in March 1990 . |
| 28 | This grouping of some 600 technocrats published a manifesto calling for the introduction of a multiparty system and held its first public meeting on June 3 . |