Example sentences of "and [vb past] its first " 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 prototype was converted from a production KI.107 and made its first flight over thirty years age , in December 1960 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was founded in 1874 , and admitted its first female student in 1948 . |
| 8 | This did not get under way until 1943 , took in the first students in 1944 and produced its first teachers in 1946 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Three of her works were played , one of them , a Trombone Concerto was commissioned by Paragon and received its first performance . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | As Garry 's already mentioned started back in nineteen eighty five and delivered its first products in eighty seven . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |