Example sentences of "the first by " in BNC.
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| 1 | His visit is the first by a Soviet defence minister to the US . |
| 2 | Both are now due to be replaced , the first by a lighter touch Independent Television Commission , the other by a new Broadcasting Bill that will be far more permissive . |
| 3 | He tackled the first by systematically awarding government contracts to northern businessmen ( former traders ) from his own area of Garoua and the second by insisting that schools and the civil service must be bilingual , a policy which has been extremely successful . |
| 4 | Lyle 's Open was the first by a Briton since Jacklin in 1969 . |
| 5 | His conviction ends the 3.5-year investigation into Vernon Savings , one of the first by the federal bank-fraud taskforce . |
| 6 | He is expected to use his address to the Diet ( parliament ) during his visit — the first by a Soviet head of state — to try to get a commitment from both the Japanese government and its businessmen to back a hoary old proposal : the formation of an economic group among the countries surrounding the Japan Sea , that is , the Soviet Union , the two Koreas and Japan . |
| 7 | Both arguments failed with the Court responding to the first by holding that the existing notification procedures were enough , there being no need for mandatory notification in all cases : |
| 8 | These Acts make provision for two types of surrogacy , the first by a regent , the second by counsellors of state . |
| 9 | In May 1968 , Charles de Gaulle paid a state visit to Romania , the first by a Western leader . |
| 10 | The Treaty of Berlin partially settled the first by handing out bits of Turkish territory to the powers mainly concerned ; Russia was allowed Bessarabia and some of Asian Turkey , Great Britain obtained a lease of Cyprus , and the Dual Monarchy was allowed to occupy and administer the Turkish provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina and to garrison the Sanjak of Novi Bazar . |
| 11 | The relevant equation may be written unc which yields the two real equations unc Premultiply the first by qT and the second by pT . |
| 12 | Knowing 1 , we now form the matrix 1I — A ; if we put r = 0,1 in ( 13 ) , multiply the first by 1 and then subtract the second : unc Premultiplication of this by |
| 13 | The first by A H Clarke ( South Durham and Cleveland ) was entitled " The Homes of the Aged and Infirm Deaf and Dumb . " |
| 14 | This respondent echoed the thoughts of the first by concluding that ‘ … it looks as if he 's played around in the paint , trying to create something — or he 's got confused and mixed everything up and something just happened ’ . |
| 15 | The visit was the first by a Pakistani Prime Minister for 15 years and coincided with Pakistan 's official re-entry into the Commonwealth ( see p. 36963 ) . |
| 16 | Following an address on July 6 to the Council 's Assembly by the Soviet President , Mikhail Gorbachev , the first by an East European leader ( see pp. 36821-22 ) , the Council and the Soviet Union set up a joint working group to develop contacts and co-operation which met in September and October . |
| 17 | He then paid a state visit to the United Kingdom on March 21-23 , the first by a Czechoslovak President since 1923 . |
| 18 | His visit , the first by a senior East European official since the collapse of communism there , had been delayed because of political turmoil in China and Poland , according to a Polish official . |
| 19 | The People 's Daily of Nov. 24 said that the foreign tour was the first by a Chinese leader since the June massacre and showed that " the vast numbers of Third-World countries are our trusted genuine friends " . |
| 20 | Li Peng 's visit was the first by a Chinese Premier for 26 years . |
| 21 | The visit of President Hosni Mubarak to the Syrian capital , Damascus , for talks with President Hafez al Assad on May 2-3 , was the first by an Egyptian leader for 13 years and marked the full normalization of relations between the two countries , broken off in November 1977 at the start of Egypt 's peace initiative with Israel . |
| 22 | Mubarak 's visit to the Soviet Union on May 14-16 , the first by an Egyptian leader for 18 years , marked a return to normal relations ended by President Anwar Sadat in 1981 [ see p. 31253 ] . |
| 23 | King Juan Carlos of Spain paid an official state visit to Finland on July 3-5 , 1989 , the first by a Spanish monarch . |
| 24 | The visit to Laos by Taro Nakayama , the Japanese Foreign Minister , on Aug. 2-3 was the first by a senior Japanese minister since the formation of the Lao People 's Democratic Republic in 1975 . |
| 25 | James Baker , the United States Secretary of State , paid an official visit — the first by a US Secretary of State — scheduled for Aug. 2-5 but cut short on Aug. 3 , following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait . |
| 26 | Prior to the controversy over the settlement of the immigrants in the occupied territories the then Minister of Agriculture , Avraham Katz-Oz , paid a semi-official visit to Moscow on Nov. 27 , 1989 , the first by an Israeli minister since diplomatic relations were severed by the Soviet Union during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war . |
| 27 | An underground nuclear test , the first by the Soviet Union for almost a year , was carried out on Oct. 24 on Novaya Zemlya island inside the Arctic Circle . |
| 28 | The visit , the first by a Nigerian head of state , was originally scheduled for June 1989 , but was postponed because of student rioting in Nigerian cities [ see p. 36727 ] . |
| 29 | President Suharto of Indonesia , accompanied by his Foreign Minister Ali Alatas , Economy and Finance Minister Radius Prawiro and Minister of State and State Secretary Moerdiono , made a state visit to China on Nov. 14-19 , the first by an Indonesian leader since relations were suspended in 1967 [ see p. 22482 ] . |
| 30 | During a Pacific tour , the Prime Minister of France , Michel Rocard , on Aug. 23 , 1989 , paid a one-day visit to Fiji , the first by a French head of government . |