Example sentences of "it [verb] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It represents the first extinction of a British mammal since the wolf was hunted out in the mid-18th century .
2 He hugged himself against the sudden freezing wind then scrambled to his feet as it whipped the first drops of rain through the open door .
3 In 1990 it became the first company to offer on-line access to data from Companies House on all limited companies operating in the UK .
4 Under the reforms of Josef II , when the Jesuit Order was abolished , the Clementinum became a seminary under the supervision of the archbishop of Prague , and in 1799 it became the first Academy of Fine Arts .
5 His time at Newcastle gave him the unique opportunity to take the building society into Europe when it became the first UK society to offer a full range of services on the mainland of Europe on opening a branch in Gibraltar in 1990 .
6 So it became the first PGA Tour venue to lose a tournament because it does n't conform to the anti-discrimination rule laid down by the United States PGA .
7 Car 2 was presented to the National Tramway Museum at Crich in 1963 , where it became the first car there to move under power in June 1964 .
8 In February 1987 it became the first fluoroquinolone to be marketed in the UK under the tradename Ciproxin .
9 And for my taste it fulfils the first law of festivals — it 's fun .
10 Together with Caedwalla 's grant of land in Battersea in Surrey , also to the monastery of Barking ( CS 87 : S 1246 ) , it constitutes the first sign of an extension of western Saxon influence north of the Thames and an indication of potential development .
11 In Persia , the nationalist movement was anti-European and by 1906 it produced the first Majlis and a liberal constitution .
12 When Quest for Fame won the Derby and Sanglemore won the French Derby , it provided a first season trainer with a rare double , who was that trainer ?
13 When Quest for Fame won the Derby and Sanglemore won the French Derby , it provided a first season trainer with a rare double , who was the trainer ?
14 Nick , let's put to you the three questions ; when Quest for Fame won the Derby and Sanglemore won the French Derby , it provided a first season trainer with a rare double — who was that trainer ?
15 It covers the first item that I can think of to be prohibited from schools ...
16 It has the first research information and library service to be registered to ISO9001 .
17 Poet Software Corp reckons it has the first object database for NT ( CI No 2,176 ) , but Objectivity Inc is stomping at its heels with the Objectivity/DB Starter Kit for Windows NT , also claiming it to ‘ the first object-oriented database management system for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT operating system ’ .
18 Poet reckons it has the first object database for NT , but Objectivity Inc is stomping at its heels with the Objectivity/DB Starter Kit for Windows NT , also claiming it to ‘ the first object-oriented database management system for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT operating system ’ .
19 Archipel SA of Paris claims that it has the first Inmos International Ltd Transputer-based distributed Unix system , built using Chorus Systemes SA 's Unix System V-compatible microkernel technology on Archipel 's Volvox-TS line of multiple instruction-multiple data parallel processors .
20 With it came the first episode of Merseyside 's very own soap Brookside .
21 I think it should be remembered that that public support actually was against a requirement of one thousand nine hundred dwellings , which is not quite the proposal being put forward by the County at the moment , but it is clear that there seems to me n not to be any public or great strength of public objection to the sort of proposals that are now before you in this enquiry , and it also seems to me that the reasons behind erm that that public support are essentially because it meets the first requirement of paragraph P P G thirty three , that the alternative expansion of existing towns or villages will represent a less satisfactory method of providing land for new housing that is needed , I think that is the essence of the public support , and so first of I think you can say that that 's that means that first criteria , and certainly it seems to meet the second automatically because it an expression of public preference .
22 I did n't enjoy it when it happened the first time .
23 She says : ‘ It happened the first evening I arrived there .
24 It joined the first aircraft on the test programme and soon both machines were breaking existing speed and altitude records with every flight .
25 A series of lectures organized by the National Arts Collections Fund focusing on creating and preserving collections and will be held during the fair ; it marks the first time that the NACF has initiated a project at a trade fair .
26 It includes a first glimpse of Stonehenge and their eventual arrival at the home of another widowed uncle , Mr Morgan , who lives at Jefferies farm with his daughter Catherine .
27 The X Business Group is going to throw what it calls the first industry conference for X Windows , GUE and client/server technology June 7-8 , just before Xhibition , at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose , California .
28 Handwriting recognition software is still lousy , and it seems the first pen systems will just have pre-programmed forms loaded .
29 The hard copy formatter opens one or more volumes in the hard copy directory for each charge code specified in the configuration file , when it finds the first module which is associated with the given charge code and which has not been hard copied .
30 Indeed , I have heard it called the first step on the path to true benevolence . ’
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