Example sentences of "[noun sg] mark the first [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The deal marks the first venture by Peabody , already the biggest US coal-mining company , into the Pacific Rim .
2 During a demonstration to mark the first anniversary of the group 's move to its new location , 300 people , including over 160 police officers , were injured in battles between 1,400 police and at least 7,000 demonstrators .
3 Although it had held power in several of Canada 's western provinces , however , the Ontario result marked the first occasion upon which the party had won a provincial election east of Manitoba .
4 The accord marked the first application of the so-called " Brady plan " designed to encourage voluntary debt reduction schemes [ see pp. 36541-42 ; 37016-17 ] .
5 The appearance of this beautifully-produced book from the small New York publishing company Timken marks the first monograph on the Danish nineteenth-century artist Christen Købke .
6 The statement accused President Mugabe 's Zimbabwe African National Union government of using riot police last week to suppress a student seminar to mark the first anniversary of an anti-corruption demonstration .
7 He added that the decision marked the first nationalisation under a Thatcher government .
8 However , Saturday 's setback at Celtic Park marked the first time in a year Goram had been in a losing Rangers team ( he was injured when Dundee won at Dens Park in August ) , and the assured nature of his performances at domestic , European and international level have helped gather an army of voters who could make the goalkeeper the first since Hamish McAlpine ( in 1985 ) to win the Scottish Football Writers ' Association Player of the Year award .
9 The newspaper story marked the first occasion on which the media had given coverage to the longstanding allegation of Bush 's infidelity .
10 All major opposition parties voted for the bills , whose adoption marked the first time since 1945 that an opposition bill had been passed in the Upper House .
11 The case marked the first use of the Organized Crime Control Act of New York State in connection with fraud on Wall Street 's financial markets .
12 In a speech to mark the first anniversary of the overthrow of former President Mohammed Siyad Barre , on Jan. 26 , Farah Aydid stated his readiness for a truce , but reiterated his implacable opposition both to Mahdi Mohammed and to the idea of an international peacekeeping force , which he said would serve only to protect the " self-appointed " interim President from the Somali people .
13 The visit marked the first step towards improved relations between the two countries since the suspension in October 1990 of US military aid [ see p. 37764 ] .
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