Example sentences of "[noun sg] make [pron] first appearance " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The penny farthing made its first appearance in 1870 and was ridden round the world in 1884 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Nonesuch the magazine made its first appearance in 1911 . |
| 6 | In 1938 , just before Huggins reported on the treatment of prostatic cancer , Goodman and Gilman 's celebrated textbook of pharmacology made its first appearance . |
| 7 | In the five years since the Inspector made his first appearance , the audience has grown to seven hundred and fifty million people worldwide . |
| 8 | In Britain the Foreign Office List made its first appearance in 1852 , while France began to produce its Annuaire Diplomatique from 1858 . |
| 9 | 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 " . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The euro-commercial paper ( ECP ) market made its first appearance in the early 1970s . |