Example sentences of "[noun sg] make [pron] first " in BNC.

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1 A young student at Bangor University made his first TV appearance with us .
2 The invasion of the non-marine habitat probably first happened in the Carboniferous , but relatives of the living land snails are rare before the Cretaceous , at which time the familiar Helix made its first appearance .
3 The penny farthing made its first appearance in 1870 and was ridden round the world in 1884 .
4 Bill Levy took over as editor , and Mick Farren , whose relationship with It was to survive the history of the underground made his first appearance .
5 That September the President made his first significant move to provide military equipment to the British government .
6 As the tape makes its first pass , the first pair of heads scans half the tape .
7 Last year the consortium made its first ‘ operating profit ’ .
8 In ancient Greek myth Harlequin made his first appearance as Hermes ( or Mercury ) , the messenger of the gods and himself the god of all animals and travellers .
9 Another highlight will be the Chilean Air Force 's Halcones aerobatic team making their first British tour since they exchanged their Pittses for Extra 300s .
10 The 38-year-old Sheffield Wednesday player-manager made his first full appearance for 17 months in the 8-1 UEFA Cup rout of Spora Luxembourg in midweek .
11 Nu made his first priority his public insistence of confidence in the Governor and the British Government .
12 Scotland 's only world boxing champion makes his first defence of the WBO mini-flyweight title in Glasgow tonight .
13 A regular in the reserves last season made his first team debut vs Sheffield United in April and made six subsequent League appearances .
14 Nonesuch the magazine made its first appearance in 1911 .
15 In 1938 , just before Huggins reported on the treatment of prostatic cancer , Goodman and Gilman 's celebrated textbook of pharmacology made its first appearance .
16 In the five years since the Inspector made his first appearance , the audience has grown to seven hundred and fifty million people worldwide .
17 The European Commission made its first concrete proposal on monetary union .
18 The government made its first attempt at formulating a national curriculum framework in the consultative document A Framework for the School Curriculum ( 1980 ) .
19 The United States space shuttle Atlantis made its first scheduled landing since 1985 at the Kennedy space centre , Florida , on Aug. 11 , completing a delayed nine-day mission during which a US$120,000,000 communications satellite for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) was launched , and medical experiments were conducted on the effects of prolonged periods in space .
20 The independent candidate made his first personal campaign appearance on Oct. 25 , in New Jersey .
21 In the Officers ' Mess Bill made his first acquaintance of a kind of Senior Common Room .
22 Then the Frenchman made his first telling touch after 12 minutes .
23 It is not faith going a second mile ; it is faith making its first full step and there is no going back .
24 After Ahlquist made his first observations on the alpha and beta receptors , and before they had any practical development , another series of drugs appeared which , somewhat unexpectedly , contributed to the treatment of hypertension .
25 In Britain the Foreign Office List made its first appearance in 1852 , while France began to produce its Annuaire Diplomatique from 1858 .
26 When the Foreign Office List made its first appearance " it was strongly objected to in certain quarters , as likely to afford information to the general public with regard to the office , which they thought it advisable they should not possess , and much information was for a time withheld " .
27 Those with long memories may recall that the Solo made its first appearance at the 1987 Frankfurt Motor Show , but that was only a mock-up prototype .
28 He thought it a mistake for the Prince to make his first visit in the shadow of such a legendary figure .
29 But to start our adventure story at the beginning … long before we visited Bali , we escaped the ashram walls of Subud in Java , raised some money to make our first film , and found ourselves amongst a tribe who literally believe their ancestors descended from the stars in skyships .
30 The euro-commercial paper ( ECP ) market made its first appearance in the early 1970s .
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