Example sentences of "it first [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opportunity afforded by a third term in office is thought to have induced a ‘ triumphalist ’ determination to effect even more remarkable and radical transformations in the social order than were brought about since it first took office in 1979 . |
| 2 | But it has taken the extraordinary campaign of the Natural Law Party to bring home the sheer size and wealth of the movement , 25 years after it first made headlines . |
| 3 | It first produced robots — ‘ electric hands ’ — in 1971 ; more recently the firm designed ‘ intelligent inspection systems ’ that combine video-sensors with the world of machine tools . |
| 4 | Big Pit closed as a working colliery in 1980 , exactly 100 years after it first produced coal . |
| 5 | Platinum first reached Europe in the wake of Spanish colonial enterprise , but it was not until 1741 that it first reached England . |
| 6 | It first reached legislation in the 1944 Education Act which made maladjustment one of the special educational needs for which local education authorities had to provide . |
| 7 | The increasing number of no-union deals in high technology and other industrial endeavours at the cutting edge of technical innovation inevitably invests the employee compensation scheme with greater potential importance than it assumed when it first became law . |
| 8 | It first gained popularity in the ancient world where , in an effort to stop adolescent boys from masturbating , the foreskin was pulled over the end of the penis and held in place by a ring passed through a couple of specially pierced holes . |