Example sentences of "on [noun prp] [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Begum Khaleda Zia , leader of the centre-right Bangladesh Nationalist Party ( BNP ) , was sworn in on March 20 as the first woman Prime Minister of Bangladesh . |
| 2 | Earlier , there had been fighting at Mannar on Aug. 1 as the LTTE attacked an advancing troop convoy ; naval artillery was used against rebel positions on Aug. 3 for the first time since the resumption of large-scale fighting on June 11 ; and a major clash took place on Aug. 4-5 , involving the repulsing of an unsuccessful rebel attack against the Jaffna fort . |
| 3 | Savimbi returned to Luanda on Sept. 27 for the first time since the start of the 16-year civil war . |
| 4 | De Klerk arrived in the United States on Sept. 24 for the first official visit by a South African government leader in 44 years . |
| 5 | Under the system of rotating leadership Mesic was due to assume office on May 15 as the first non-communist president . |
| 6 | The Collective State Presidency , excluding the Slovene representative Janez Drnovsek , met on July 4 for the first time with Mesic as President [ see p. 38275 ] . |
| 7 | Membership would entail the release of detailed information on the Soviet economy , and observers saw the publication of Gosbank ( Soviet State Bank ) accounts on July 16 for the first time since 1936 as the beginnings of this . |
| 8 | Multiparty elections to a 23-member constituent commission were held on July 23-26 for the first time since the 1977 coup , when Sir James Mancham was overthrown by France-Albert René [ see pp. 28485-86 ] . |
| 9 | More than 700 tickets were sold for York 's controversial allnight rave on the Knavesmire on July 3 on the first day of sale . |
| 10 | With the prospects of breaking the stalemate fading , hopes rose following the announcement that the government and ANC representatives had held talks on July 28 for the first time since the ANC broke off contact on June 23 . |
| 11 | Hekmatyar 's most powerful rival in the mujaheddin , the northern-based Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ahmad Shah Massud ( known as the " Lion of Panjsher " for his victories over Soviet troops in the Panjsher Valley — see p. 36396 ) , visited Islamabad , the Pakistan capital , on Oct. 13 for the first time for more than 10 years , to meet other mujaheddin leaders and senior Pakistani civilian and military officials , including the Pakistani President , Ghulam Ishaq Khan , the Army Chief of Staff , Gen. Mirza Aslam Beg , and the ISI chief , Maj.-Gen. |
| 12 | Goran Hadzic , leader of the Serbian enclave of Western Slavonia , was elected by 230 votes with six abstentions as Babic 's replacement in Borovo Selo on Feb. 26 at the first joint session of the assemblies of Serbian Krajina , the Autonomous Region of Western Slavonia , and the Serbian Region of Slavonia , Baranja and Western Srem . |
| 13 | The UN Security Council had reconvened on Feb. 13 for the first time since the outbreak of hostilities to review the progress of the conflict . |
| 14 | An Israeli trade delegation visited Beijing on Nov. 18-22 for the first official talks on establishing trade ties following a secret visit by Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Arens on Nov. 4-8 to discuss military co-operation and China 's arms sales to the Middle East . |
| 15 | The opposition failed to make an impact on Nov. 25 in the first multiparty elections since independence in 1960 , the ruling Parti démocratique de la Côte d'Ivoire ( PDCI ) retaining 163 of the 175 seats . |
| 16 | Iraqi authorities lifted the night-time curfew on Nov. 23 for the first time since the Aug. 2 invasion [ see pp. 37632-35 ] . |
| 17 | Also at North Weald , flying on September 9 for the first time in eighteen years was CM. 170 Magister G–FUGA in the hands of an Irish Air Corps test pilot from Baldonnel . |
| 18 | Increased assistance to the CIS already included the promise of food and transport aid from NATO [ see pp. 38698-99 ] ; £20 million in fodder grain from the United Kingdom to St Petersburg , offered on Dec. 2 ; the release on Dec. 16 of the first tranche , worth ECU500 million , of an ECU1,250 million credit agreed by the EC in October [ see p. 38539 ] ; and $30,000,000 from Sweden and 30,000,000 Finnish markka ( about US$7,250,000 ) from Finland in aid to CIS areas nearest their countries . |
| 19 | The Human Rights Protection Party ( HRPP ) , led by Prime Minister Tofilau Eti Alesana , was returned to power on April 5 in the first general election under the country 's recently introduced universal adult suffrage . |
| 20 | To coincide with world environment day , the government announced Operation Amazonia on June 5 as the first stage in a drive to combat the destruction of the rainforest . |
| 21 | Oil exports were resumed on June 11 for the first time since the outbreak of the Gulf war [ see pp. 37934-43 ] . |
| 22 | Foreign Ministers from 34 countries participating in the Conference on Security and Co-Operation in Europe ( CSCE ) met in Berlin on June 19-20 for the first time since the adoption in November 1990 of the Charter of Paris [ see p. 37838 ] . |
| 23 | King Fahd of Saudi Arabia visited Kuwait on June 9 for the first time since the end of the Gulf war . |