Example sentences of "had [vb pp] its first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Railway milk ’ had received its first boost with an outbreak of cattle plague in the mid 1860S which had seriously restricted urban milk production . |
| 2 | The insult was particularly deep because the year before , Cagliari had won its first and only Italian championship . |
| 3 | The clash between the demands of the Welfare State and Britain 's desire to regain her position as a great power had claimed its first victim ! |
| 4 | It was confirmed in September 1990 that Dounreay had secured its first new contract for reprocessing with the Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt research reactor in Braunschweig to reprocess 39 spent fuel rods . |
| 5 | Through its entrepreneurs middle-class society had made its first approaches to the masses . |
| 6 | He would have to be told ; any day now it would dawn on Tollemarche that it had spawned its first successful author , and he could guess the kind of jokes his father 's colleagues were going to make when they found out what kind of book he had written . |
| 7 | The Minister added that the Serbian government had drafted its first integral environmental protection plan . |
| 8 | The Cuban missile crisis heightened fears on the Continent that a US-Soviet nuclear conflict could occur without any European control over events and de Gaulle decided that France , which had exploded its first atomic bomb in 1960 , must develop its own independent nuclear force . |
| 9 | It had found its first practical test in United States hostility towards Libya in 1986 and was developed further during the United States intervention in the maritime conflict in the Gulf on behalf of Kuwait in 1987 . |
| 10 | Gradually film production became their main preoccupation , but only Cecil Hepworth became sufficiently involved to continue after the industry had hit its first crisis . |
| 11 | The conference was the first to be held by the union since the 1981 convention which had followed its first registration as a legal union [ see p. 31213 ] . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A de-Sovietization law , banning former KGB or Communist Party employees from holding state posts , had passed its first reading on Feb. 5 , 1992 . |
| 14 | BBMF had lost its first aircraft , but not its first pilot . |
| 15 | In 1989 Syria had recorded its first trade surplus in 30 years , largely reflecting substantial increases in crude oil production since the mid-1980s . |
| 16 | It was reported on Sept. 3 that the Albanian Popular League party had held its first assembly and that its secretary-general , Xhemal Borova , had called for a reorganization . |