Example sentences of "[noun] made [pron] first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That September the President made his first significant move to provide military equipment to the British government . |
| 2 | On Jan. 17 at the French Institute on International Relations in Paris Kohl made his first major speech abroad since presenting his 10-point plan for a German confederation on Nov. 28 [ see pp. 37025-26 ] . |
| 3 | This new competition arose out of a battle between banks and building societies which arose when the banks made their first major inroad into the mortgage market . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In February 1912 the majority was down to fifty or sixty ; in June the Unionists made their first real attempt to " snap " the government and got the majority down to twenty-two . |
| 6 | Gedge made his first public stage performance at Moorclose High 's performance of Gilbert and Sullivan 's Iolanthe in 1977 . |
| 7 | When Hannah made her first public bow , she was constantly in the company of an elderly white cow called Her Ladyship and her love for this awkward beast touched a certain public soft spot — the British are well known for their protective , caring attitude toward animals . |
| 8 | Hanson made its first big UK acquisition in 1981 when it bought Berec , the maker of Ever Ready batteries . |
| 9 | The European Commission made its first concrete proposal on monetary union . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Arnulf made his first public mark in 1133 with the dissemination of a particularly vitriolic pamphlet directed against the antipope Anacletus II . |
| 12 | The independent candidate made his first personal campaign appearance on Oct. 25 , in New Jersey . |
| 13 | When Cook made his first exploratory voyages to the South Seas between 1768 and 1771 , that figure had more than doubled to 450,000 tons . |
| 14 | Then the Frenchman made his first telling touch after 12 minutes . |
| 15 | On Sept. 12 the Revolutionary Justice Organization ( RJO ) in Beirut made its first formal announcement that it was holding British hostage Jackie Mann , kidnapped in Beirut in May 1989 [ see p. 36671 ] , while Islamic Jihad issued a statement welcoming the releases and accompanied by a photograph of United States hostage , Terry Anderson . |
| 16 | The Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna made her first practical contribution to the improvement of conditions in the countryside when she asked Nikolai Miliutin to tell her how to free the serfs on her Ukrainian estate of Karlovka . |
| 17 | King Mswati made his first official foreign visits in October 1989 , in a three-week tour which began on Oct. 6 in Mozambique where he met President Joaquim Chissano . |
| 18 | Miyazawa made his first official visit to the USA since his election as Prime Minister on June 30-July 2 . |
| 19 | On April 25-27 former King Michael made his first successful visit to Romania since his forced exile in 1945 [ for his expulsion in December 1990 see p. 37922 ] . |
| 20 | NOW IT 'S THE JAMES GANG DAVID JAMES made his first full appearance in goal for Liverpool last night , in place of Bruce Grobbelaar . |