Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [noun] [vb past] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | WASHINGTON — General Dmitri Yazov became the first Soviet defence minister to visit the US yesterday , beginning a week of talks as the guest of his opposite number , Dick Cheney , writes Marc Champion . |
| 2 | In October Gen. Dmitri Yazov made the first visit to the USA by a Soviet Defence Minister , at the invitation of US Defence Secretary Dick Cheney . |
| 3 | In the 1960s at Manchester University , where dental materials science was first established in the UK as an academic discipline , Dennis C. Smith developed the first adhesive dental cement , based on poly ( acrylic acid ) . |
| 4 | Gloucestershire trainer Chris Broad saddled the first winner … and Wantage jockey Graham McCourt took the second race … |
| 5 | In 1983 Dr Sven Kullander took the first steps by restricting the genus to South American species ; unfortunately until such time as further revisions are made this leaves the rest of the species in a sort of ‘ taxonomic limbo ’ . |
| 6 | Last week Harvard University Press published the first conspectus of myremecology since 1910 , by Dr Wilson and Dr Bert Holldobler ( a fellow Harvard professor ) . |
| 7 | In 1967 , Dr Christiaan Barnard performed the first heart transplant . |
| 8 | In 1934/35 , Frank Fraser Darling made the first intensive study of deer , and his book A Herd of Red Deer is still a valuable source book . |
| 9 | The Norwegian biologist Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe made the first important observations on dominance , in the 1920s . |
| 10 | To show ‘ solidarity with the poor ’ , and hoping , politely , to shame the Americans into faster delivery , President Guillermo Endara spent the first half of March fasting in Metropolitan Cathedral . |
| 11 | President Punsalmaagiyn Ochirbat began the first visit to the United States by a Mongolian head of state on Jan. 22 . |
| 12 | President Punsalmaagiyn Ochirbat made the first Mongolian presidential visit to South Korea on Oct. 22-25 , accompanied by Foreign Minister Tserenpilyn Gombosuren . |
| 13 | President Ramaswamy Venkataraman paid the first state visit to China by an Indian President on May 18-23 . |
| 14 | When W. S. Rockstro made the first thorough-going attempt at a life of Handel in 1883 , he had before him a list of no fewer than 53 likenesses made during the composer 's lifetime . |
| 15 | The French inventor Louis Daguerre took the first photograph of the Moon in 1839 or slightly earlier , and since then literally thousands of detailed pictures have been acquired , including those transmitted back-to Earth by the Moon-probes of the late 1950s and the 1960s . |
| 16 | President Chaim Herzog became the first Israeli head of state to visit Czechoslovakia on Oct. 13-20 . |
| 17 | President Boris Yeltsin chose the first anniversary of the August 1991 coup attempt to announce a further stage in the Russian government 's privatization programme . |
| 18 | In 1881 Mr Kibataro Oki produced the first Japanese telephone and created a company that has grown dramatically over the last 110 years . |
| 19 | In 1881 Mr Kibataro Oki produced the first Japanese telephone and created a company that has grown dramatically over the last 110 years . |
| 20 | Housing Minister Sir George Young struck the first blow for the renovation of a run-down area of Liverpool when he took control of a giant digger . |
| 21 | As a result , the Football League proposed a cut in wages and in October Coventry City players became the first to accept a reduction . |
| 22 | In 1870 however , the brilliant Sir Charles Wheatstone invented the first , effective automatic telegraph equipment . |
| 23 | The Australian geologist Douglas Mawson discovered the first in 1912 when he spotted a black stony meteorite in the snow near the coast of Adelie Land ( Figure 1 ) . |
| 24 | A NEW can recycling scheme was launched in Darlington yesterday when council leader John Williams opened the first of many Save-a-Can recycling banks . |
| 25 | It 's 100 years on Sunday since Gentleman Jim Corbett won the first world heavyweight title under Queensberry rules . |
| 26 | Professor Keishiro Okuma presented the first issue of the new journal Studia Celtica Japonica ( Toyohashi , 1988 ) , published by the Celtic Society of Japan , a welcome reminder of the wide span of international interest in Celtic studies . |
| 27 | Durham County champion Craig Kilgour made the first steps towards his comeback last weekend when he was among a number of county players who took part in a coaching session held by English Golf Union coach Bill Ferguson . |
| 28 | But in 1607 his friend Agostino Agazzari published the first little treatise on continuo performance , Del suonare sopra il basso con tutti stromenti & uso loro nel conserto , which does explain the use of figures . |
| 29 | In 1931 the Polytechnic Touring Association organized the first air charter holiday , flying twenty-four passengers from Croydon , south of London , in a four-engined Heracles . |
| 30 | The Celtic player Davie Hay and the late Hibernian full back Erich Schaedler made the first brave attempt , but they chose a defective boat and capsized almost immediately . |