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

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1 And he used the Chancellor 's traditional speech to the City of London to deliver his ultimatum to the Cabinet , which takes its first look at next year 's public spending tomorrow .
2 It is the first sign from the new Chancellor that he is ready to reverse the Tories ' commitment to lower taxes unless the Government And he used the Chancellor 's traditional speech to the City of London to deliver his ultimatum to the Cabinet , which takes its first look at next year 's public spending tomorrow .
3 It is possible to point to landmarks — the moment of ‘ quickening ’ when the mother first feels foetal movements within her ; the moment when the foetus first has potential for independent life — deemed by law to be 24 weeks from gestation ; the moment when the baby has been fully expelled or removed from the mother 's body ; the moment when the baby takes its first breath , with the anatomical changes in circulation that accompany this , and subsequent changes as the baby develops after birth which any parent will recognise .
4 Now , as if objecting already to the place where it would take its first breath , it kicked against her stomach wall quite forcibly .
5 Hitachi Data Systems Ltd took its first step into the Unix world last week and launched the OSF/1 operating system for its GX and EX series IBMulators .
6 Hitachi Data Systems Ltd took its first step into the Unix world yesterday and launched the OSF/1 operating system for its GX and EX series IBMulators .
7 IBM Corp last week took its first step towards saving the AS/400 from going the way of the mainframe when it accompanied the new F models with a string of software offerings and initiatives designed to make the machine sit more comfortably as a database server in an open systems environment .
8 Of course this rant has nothing to do with the fact that the Fat DOS team recently took its first flight in a F15 and Strike Eagle .
9 London-based Elonex Plc has taken its first step into the higher-end workstation market .
10 It was not till 14 August 1779 that the little five-ship force led by the self-styled ‘ Commander-in-Chief of the American squadron now in Europe ’ finally left Brest , but by the 21st it had taken its first prize and others rapidly followed .
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