Example sentences of "[verb] the first official [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lieutenant General Augustus Pitt-Rivers became the first official guardian of Britain 's heritage |
| 2 | In 1854 he became the first official photographer to the British Museum , and received several commissions to photograph for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert . |
| 3 | The recommendation from the evaluation studies that ‘ the traffic restraint concept as a principle of planning should be continued ’ represents the first official adoption in German planning of traffic restraint . |
| 4 | Nobody , least of all the press corps plane-spotting outside Incirlik air base , believed the first official tale : that the waves of American aircraft returning with their bomb pods empty had been off on a training exercise . |
| 5 | Northamptonshire will become the first official touring team to play in South Africa when their pre-season tour starts in Natal on March 24 . |
| 6 | South African Foreign Affairs Minister Roelof " Pik " Botha had on March 1 , 1990 , paid the first official visit by a South African minister since Angola 's independence in 1975 . |
| 7 | The Nigerian field commander of the ECOMOG force , Gen. Joshua Dogonyaro , giving the first official casualty figures for the force , said at the end of January that there were " not more than " 60 casualties . |
| 8 | The Central Committee 's Theses , adopted shortly before the 19th Party Conference in 1988 , contained the first official criticism of Soviet foreign policy in the Brezhnev and Gromyko years , suggesting that there had been too much ‘ dogmatism ’ and ‘ subjectivism ’ at this time and that Soviet policy had lagged behind the important changes that were taking place in world affairs . |
| 9 | Woosie aside , most of us might score closer to the 100 with which Bernard Darwin won the first official Club meeting in 1893 . |
| 10 | BORIS Yeltsin is to make the first official visit to Britain by a Russian president in November . |
| 11 | In the Montagu declaration we see the first official glimmer of an idea which exercised a vast and perversely inspirational influence on the process of imperial disintegration : the idea of the multiracial Commonwealth . |
| 12 | It appeared as a leading policy under Sanjay Gandhi 's Four Point ( later Five Point ) Programme following the first official policy document ( National Population Policy : a statement by the Government of India , 16 April 1976 ) . |
| 13 | For 1991 Kos has got together with Champagne Mumm , sponsors of world class yachting , to produce the first official IYRU calendar and a limited edition signed by Kos herself are available now through mail order . |
| 14 | FUND-RAISERS have held the first official meeting at their new Harewood House base . |