Example sentences of "[num] [noun prp] [noun] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually , in 1921 Marie Stopes opened the first birth control clinic . |
| 2 | On July 15-17 Chaim Herzog became the first Israeli President to visit Turkey . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Last year one Middlesex student became the first to submit a postgraduate thesis as a video cassette tape . |
| 5 | On 20 June 1961 Pope John addressed the first meeting of the central commission . |
| 6 | On June 13 Theo Mitchell became the first black politician to win a major party nomination for a statewide office in South Carolina when he secured the Democratic gubernatorial nomination with 59 per cent of the vote ; Mitchell was to face Republican incumbent Carroll Campbell . |
| 7 | In foreign affairs East-West détente had revived after the rise of Mikhail Gorbachev in Russia and in September 1987 Erich Honecker made the first visit by an East German head of state to West Germany . |
| 8 | In 1939 PAN AM launched the first transatlantic airline service on Yankee Clipper , a Boeing 314 flying boat with all mod cons — even sleeping berths and a bridal suite . |
| 9 | In 1983 Sheila Keech became the first British woman to receive a WFD medal of honour for services to the deaf . |
| 10 | In 1555 Primož Trubar made the first translation of the New Testament into Slovene and in 1584 a Slovene grammar was produced . |
| 11 | On 24 June Edward won the first notable victory of the war in the naval battle fought off Sluys ( Fr L'Ecluse ) at the mouth of the river Zwyn , at which a larger French fleet was decimated by superior English tactics and the better use of prevailing conditions . |