Example sentences of "it [verb] the first [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In February 1987 it became the first fluoroquinolone to be marketed in the UK under the tradename Ciproxin . |
| 6 | And for my taste it fulfils the first law of festivals — it 's fun . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In Persia , the nationalist movement was anti-European and by 1906 it produced the first Majlis and a liberal constitution . |
| 9 | It covers the first item that I can think of to be prohibited from schools ... |
| 10 | It has the first research information and library service to be registered to ISO9001 . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | With it came the first episode of Merseyside 's very own soap Brookside . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I did n't enjoy it when it happened the first time . |
| 16 | She says : ‘ It happened the first evening I arrived there . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Handwriting recognition software is still lousy , and it seems the first pen systems will just have pre-programmed forms loaded . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Indeed , I have heard it called the first step on the path to true benevolence . ’ |
| 22 | Advocates of press freedom asserted that the Noriega tapes case had set a disturbing precedent in that it undermined the First Amendment by giving legal endorsement to the concept of " prior restraint " in the form of a pre-publication review of a pending news story . |
| 23 | It represented the first deployment of German armed forces outside German territory since the Second World War . |
| 24 | This had been floated in 1948 by the clothing establishment as a discreet gentleman 's fashion harking back to the golden days before ‘ socialism and formica ’ , but had been quickly coopted and camped up by the gay underground ; the more exaggerated aspects of this style caught the first Edwardians ' eye and , together with the Western Look that pervaded their favourite culture , American cowboy films , it formed the first youth style proper . |
| 25 | It marked the first occasion on which the UK had taken steps to grant political asylum to a refugee from another Western country . |
| 26 | It marked the first time that an Offshore Division production platform has been used to process oil or natural gas from a third party well . |
| 27 | Nevertheless it marked the first step — though only that — in the restoration of royal coinage inside West Francia . |
| 28 | It does n't bother me the way it did the first time . |
| 29 | And even if a miracle somehow happened and he agreed to try again , it would simply end up exactly the same way it did the first time . |
| 30 | ‘ It would bore the rest of the company even more than it did the first time . ’ |