Example sentences of "as its first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company , which has 80 staff restaurant contracts , now operates the Heal 's building in London 's Tottenham Court Road as its first UK multi-tenanted scheme , which it pioneered in the Netherlands . |
| 2 | Parker Commercial Filters , US has appointed Hedley Filtration as its first UK distributor for process filtration products . |
| 3 | Irvine , California-based technology holding company Helionetics Inc has signed a binding letter of intent to acquire Sentinel Systems Inc , which is designing the Sentry-E fault-tolerant computer in Horsham , Pennsylvania and has a ‘ major telecommunications company ’ lined up as its first customer . |
| 4 | Described in the commercial directories as a ‘ voluntary school ’ and doubling up as a Sunday school , it was intended for 180 children , and sported Benjamin James as its first headmaster . |
| 5 | He announced his intention to nominate , as the new Administrator of the agency , William Ruckelshaus , the man who served as its first Administrator from 1970 to 1973 . |
| 6 | About 1820 , possibly due to the persuasion and influence of William Gilkison , Galt became the London agent for people in Upper Canada who were trying to obtain compensation from the British Government for losses they had sustained in the 1812/13 war with the U.S.A. He submitted a plan to the Government which led to the creation of the Canada Company , and , as its first Secretary , he was sent to Canada to acquire land . |
| 7 | It was largely responsible for the formation of the Inland Waterways Association in 1946 , with Rolt as its first secretary . |
| 8 | The Armenian Communist Party elected Stepan Pogosyan as its first secretary , replacing Vladimir Movsisyan , on Nov. 30 . |
| 9 | The Byelorussian Communist Party on Dec. 12 elected as its first secretary Anatoly Malofeyev , who succeeded Yefrem Sokolov . |
| 10 | Elsewhere in the county Quakerism emerged in the 1650s to be fairly firmly suppressed by a gentry worried about its revolutionary tendencies ; Thomas Haycock of Horsham went to gaol in 1656 as its first Sussex victim . |
| 11 | Perhaps it was inevitable that when the Auditing Practices Board was set up in 1991 in the ashes of the old Auditing Practices Committee , Mr Morrison 's name should spring to mind as its first chairman . |
| 12 | It grew out of the work of the wartime Committee for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts and was set up in 1946 , with the great economist Lord Keynes as its first Chairman . |
| 13 | Opposition MPs mocked the Government 's decision to take over the Student Loans Company as its first act of nationalisation . |
| 14 | Thus , the following document , produced by a very recently formed co-operative , has the need for a designated ( and trained ) training officer within each member library , as its first recommendation : |
| 15 | In 1961 he founded another seminary , St Vincent 's College , Langbank , and served as its first rector until 1974 . |
| 16 | Until 1979 , the government assigned to the CNES as its first task the ( French ) conquest of space . |
| 17 | Civic Forum , the movement which had emerged to lead the November 1989 revolution in the Czech lands and which with its Slovak sister organization Public Against Violence had won the June 1990 general election [ see p. 37542-43 ] , elected the Federal Finance Minister Vaclav Klaus as its first chair at a delegates ' meeting in Prague on Oct. 13 . |
| 18 | Respect for Animals , a recently formed pressure group , has chosen a hard-hitting anti-fur campaign as its first move . |
| 19 | A treaty was signed in April 1951 and the European Coal-Steel Community ( ECSC ) was founded in August 1952 in Luxembourg , with Monnet as its first President . |
| 20 | British Telecom says it plans to develop links between the two companies ' local network management systems — Hewlett-Packard 's OpenView and Sun 's SunNet Manager , and its own Concert system — and chose those two companies as its first partners because it believes that between them they control about 60% of the local network management market . |
| 21 | British Telecom says it plans to develop links between the two companies ' local network management systems — Hewlett-Packard 's OpenView and Sun 's SunNet Manager , and its own Concert system — and chose those two companies as its first partners because it believes that between them they control about 60% of the local network management market . |
| 22 | To catch on to the developing barbecue market , the BTIS is also to spotlight June as its first Quality British Turkey Month ; arrange sampling tests for up to 150,000 consumers ; and set up a turkey charity ball — or turkey trot — in conjunction with a major charity . |
| 23 | This is a magnificent record , thank you and and in nineteen ninety three I would like to announce the day that Save The Children has been unanimously chosen by the charities aid foundation as its first recipient of the charity of the year award nineteen ninety three . |
| 24 | Welcom Software Technology of Houston , Texas is porting its project management software Open Plan to Unix targeting SunOS as its first implementation : Open Plan , built on the Xbase DBMS , was previously available on PCs , Macs and VAXs . |
| 25 | Sauvy 's slimeball , however , is a beast of more exotic pedigree , an oozing being from outer space which has the ill fortune to meet a pair of climbers as its first encounter with human civilisation . |