Example sentences of "its first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ new ’ audit regime , heralded by the Companies Act 1989 , had its first anniversary in October 1992 . |
| 2 | As the theatre approached its first anniversary , this proved to be one of its most successful plays . |
| 3 | A FURNITURE recycling scheme celebrating its first anniversary has established itself as a lifeline for a town 's needy families . |
| 4 | Following the purchase of a Finnish company , it has landed its first contract with the Soviet Union . |
| 5 | After operating in the Czech and Slovak republics for the past 18 months , Leeds accounting software supplier Coda Ltd has not only won its first contract in Hungary , but also decided to open an office in Budapest , which began trading on April 1 . |
| 6 | CHOICE Hotels International has opened its first hotel in Thailand , the Quality Hotel Pinnacle in Bangkok . |
| 7 | Forte is expected to convert the Sterling , its first hotel at Gatwick , to its upmarket Crest brand . |
| 8 | Jointly owned by the BBC , EMAP and Haymarket , BBC Frontline installed its first Sun machine last year as its initial step away from VME to a more open , Unix oriented approach . |
| 9 | For the District the establishment of the UEMCC was of particular concern as Cranage was its first Chairman and Hickson a member . |
| 10 | The growth of the trust owed much to its first chairman , Sir Henry Dale ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 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 | Stanley Steward , its first chairman — who had been an electrical manufacturer in the private sector — mobilised considerable pressure from the ‘ county ’ set on his consumer Consultative Council , and lobbied both the Government and the Central Authority for a subvention . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Resolutely opposed by two of Gardiner 's less-enlightened predecessors as Lord Chancellor , Simonds and Dilhorne , the Law Commission under its first chairman , Sir Leslie Scarman , soon earned acceptance as a valuable strengthening of the hitherto piecemeal procedures for revising laws which had become outdated or unsatisfactory in practice . |
| 15 | In 1881 , when Brunner , Mond & Co. became a public company , he invested in it , became its first chairman , and remained a director until his death . |
| 16 | The CNAA machinery in the late 1960s and 1970s was powered substantially by its university membership , with major inputs from its ‘ industrial ’ members , including its first Chairman , Lord Kings Norton , and Michael ( later Sir Michael ) Clapham , who took over as Chairman in 1971 . |
| 17 | Taken at its first test session at Michelin 's Clermont Ferrand test track , they show the car still under heavy disguise but revealing some of the characteristics that should give it a place among the great supercars . |
| 18 | A much more serious crisis of a similar nature arose immediately after the Iraqi coup of July 1957 when the Hashemite dynasty was overthrown , and the Eisenhower Doctrine for the Middle East was put to its first test . |
| 19 | Amour propre ensured that France would emulate Britain ( its first test in the Sahara came in 1960 ) . |
| 20 | It is possible to argue either that the community charge has failed its first test as a device to improve the accountability of local government or that it has not really been tested at all . |
| 21 | Ray Hanna too G–FIRE up for its first test flight on March 14 , 1981 , in primer . |
| 22 | In its first test of popularity since independence in March 1990 , the ruling South-West Africa People 's Organization ( SWAPO ) won a landslide victory in regional and local elections held on Nov. 30-Dec. 4 . |
| 23 | The original store of ‘ goodness ’ which was created by evolution , and which must be axiomatically accepted as ‘ good' ’ within the minds of men if the Created God is to become a reality , acquired its first unit of man-made ‘ goodness ’ as the first product of civilisation . |
| 24 | Committing to offer Microsoft Corp 's NT on Precision Architecture RISC by 1995 , Samsung Electronics Co has launched its first workstation built around the RISC , which it makes under licence from Hewlett-Packard Co — six months later than originally planned . |
| 25 | The Polisario Front on Sept. 24 , 1989 , launched its first offensive against the 2,500-km Moroccan " defence wall " across Western Sahara since its unilateral declaration of truce at the end of 1988 ( see p. 36409 ) . |
| 26 | The Royal Logistic Corps , which will hold its first parade in front of the Princess Royal on April 5 , is to be based at Deepcut . |
| 27 | Despite its first night technical problem , Les Miserables is expected to enjoy a successful run in Manchester . |
| 28 | He had already edited several popular movie magazines , but it was because of Bazin 's reputation as a theoretician that this new one , more highbrow , attracted from its first publication in 1951 a group of young , enthusiastic and iconoclastic critics . |
| 29 | This is its first publication anywhere . |
| 30 | We gain that impression because the work the USSR reports can be up to 30 years old at its first publication . |