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

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1 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 .
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 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 In February 1987 it became the first fluoroquinolone to be marketed in the UK under the tradename Ciproxin .
8 In Persia , the nationalist movement was anti-European and by 1906 it produced the first Majlis and a liberal constitution .
9 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 ?
10 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 ?
11 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 ?
12 With it came the first episode of Merseyside 's very own soap Brookside .
13 I did n't enjoy it when it happened the first time .
14 She says : ‘ It happened the first evening I arrived there .
15 It joined the first aircraft on the test programme and soon both machines were breaking existing speed and altitude records with every flight .
16 Indeed , I have heard it called the first step on the path to true benevolence . ’
17 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 .
18 It represented the first deployment of German armed forces outside German territory since the Second World War .
19 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 .
20 It marked the first occasion on which the UK had taken steps to grant political asylum to a refugee from another Western country .
21 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 .
22 Nevertheless it marked the first step — though only that — in the restoration of royal coinage inside West Francia .
23 It does n't bother me the way it did the first time .
24 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 .
25 ‘ It would bore the rest of the company even more than it did the first time . ’
26 In July he saw his party make history when it won the first governorship conceded by the ruling party in 60 years .
27 The voice held the same polite incredulity as it had the first time .
28 She re-read the previous page , but by the time she 'd got to the bottom again it made as little sense as it had the first time .
29 By the time it published the first issue of its bulletin , STOP , in February 1980 the DUC had effectively changed from being an information and research group into an opposition group , as the bulletin made clear : ‘ After investigation into the hazards related to uranium and its by-products , the DUC feels that since uranium can not be mined safely , exploration should cease . ’
30 The birth of Jesus thus came to be regarded as dividing time into two parts , because it ended the first phase of the divine purpose and initiated the second .
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