Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [verb] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Norwegian biologist Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe made the first important observations on dominance , in the 1920s . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Woosie aside , most of us might score closer to the 100 with which Bernard Darwin won the first official Club meeting in 1893 . |
| 5 | On July 16 François Mitterrand became the first French President to attend the annual service held to commemorate the arrest and detention in 1942 of 12,884 Jews in the " Vel " d'Hiv " " cycling stadium in Paris . |
| 6 | RICK COLE AUCTIONS hosted the first Annual Reno Warbird and Classic Aircraft Auction on September 18 and 19 at the new Reno Hotel ( formerly Bally 's ) . |
| 7 | Dr Broadhurst organised the first public meeting in St Margaret 's Hope . |
| 8 | September 1991 : HCIMA Greece became the first European Chapter to be inaugurated , by Director at a gathering in Athens , attended by 120 senior members of Greece 's hotel and catering and tourism industries . |
| 9 | Poet , artist , calligrapher and connoisseur , Tung Ch'i-ch'ang devised the first systematic history and theory of Chinese art , dividing the old masters between the decorative Northern and the meditative Southern schools . |
| 10 | Mr Doubleday imported the first Russian comfrey into Britain , a plant known for its medicinal qualities . |
| 11 | During his visit , Mr Kinnock became the first British political leader to meet Gregor Gysi , the new East German Communist Party leader . |
| 12 | When Mr Bush lost and Mr Clinton became the first Democratic president for more than a decade , the much-valued special relationship between Britain and America suddenly looked decidedly shaky . |
| 13 | President Chaim Herzog became the first Israeli head of state to visit Czechoslovakia on Oct. 13-20 . |
| 14 | On July 15-17 Chaim Herzog became the first Israeli President to visit Turkey . |
| 15 | Two years and a historical event passed before Jack Elliot and Harold Farrington made the first commercial flights in Curtiss Jennies , on March 3 , 1926 . |
| 16 | Lech Walesa became the first Polish President to visit Israel when he arrived for a four-day visit on May 20 . |
| 17 | What with one thing and another , it was left to Sir Geoffrey Howe to become the first British Foreign Secretary to visit all the countries of Eastern Europe . |
| 18 | Mark Pretty removed the offending hold , but it was left to Robin Barker to make the first free ascent of the Free Monster E6+ 6c ( F7c+ ) . |
| 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 | In 1881 Mr Kibataro Oki produced the first Japanese telephone and created a company that has grown dramatically over the last 110 years . |
| 21 | When Victor Paige became the first general manager of the health service he found himself in a very different job from any that he or anyone else had occupied before . |
| 22 | In Connecticut Gary Franks became the first black Republican to serve in the House since the Second World War . |
| 23 | In Verona Mussolini reviewed the first Italian troops to go to Russia : the Julia division of the Alpini . |
| 24 | In the autumn of 1914 Nina Boyle and Margaret Damer Dawson established the first voluntary women 's police force , the Women Volunteer Police Corps . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | A new study by Peter Bryant and Lynette Bradley at Oxford University provides the first good evidence that the ability to analyse a word into its constituent sounds is most important in the early stages of learning to read ( Nature , vol 301. p 419 ) . |
| 27 | But in the new spate of glasnost , or openness , one of I T N's Moscow reporters , Bill Meely became the first European journalist to be shown inside the Lubyanka , the K G B's headquarters . |
| 28 | Peter Jacobsen despatched the first serious shot of the Masters . |
| 29 | Rumours of impending action in Algiers filtered back to him , and on 11 May the editor of a leading Algiers newspaper published the first public appeal for his return . |
| 30 | On May 3 Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu became the first Japanese head of government to issue an unambiguous apology to countries of south-east Asia for Japan 's actions during the Pacific War . |