Example sentences of "[noun sg] made [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 | Last year the consortium made its first ‘ operating profit ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Nu made his first priority his public insistence of confidence in the Governor and the British Government . |
| 10 | A regular in the reserves last season made his first team debut vs Sheffield United in April and made six subsequent League appearances . |
| 11 | Nonesuch the magazine made its first appearance in 1911 . |
| 12 | In 1938 , just before Huggins reported on the treatment of prostatic cancer , Goodman and Gilman 's celebrated textbook of pharmacology made its first appearance . |
| 13 | In the five years since the Inspector made his first appearance , the audience has grown to seven hundred and fifty million people worldwide . |
| 14 | The European Commission made its first concrete proposal on monetary union . |
| 15 | The government made its first attempt at formulating a national curriculum framework in the consultative document A Framework for the School Curriculum ( 1980 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The independent candidate made his first personal campaign appearance on Oct. 25 , in New Jersey . |
| 18 | In the Officers ' Mess Bill made his first acquaintance of a kind of Senior Common Room . |
| 19 | Then the Frenchman made his first telling touch after 12 minutes . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In Britain the Foreign Office List made its first appearance in 1852 , while France began to produce its Annuaire Diplomatique from 1858 . |
| 22 | 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 " . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The euro-commercial paper ( ECP ) market made its first appearance in the early 1970s . |