Example sentences of "[pers pn] was the [num ord] visit " in BNC.
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1 | The fourth and final summit between the two leaders took place in Moscow in May-June 1988 ; it was the first visit by a US president to the Soviet capital for fourteen years . |
2 | It was the first visit by a Turkish head of government since 1959 and talks centred around the purchase by Turkey of transport aircraft and weaponry , economic relations between the two countries and Turkey 's application for EC membership . |
3 | It was the first visit to the UK by a senior member of the Syrian government since the restoration of diplomatic relations in November 1990 [ see p. 37873 ] . |
4 | It was the first visit by a Japanese minister to Vietnam since Vietnamese unification in 1976 . |
5 | It was the first visit by a Chinese head of state to Malaysia and followed a visit by Sultan Azlan Muhibbuddin Shah , the Yang di-Pertuan Agong ( paramount ruler ) of Malaysia , to China in September 1991 [ see p. 38441 ] . |
6 | The Minister of Defence Dimitur Ludzhev on a visit to Ankara on March 10 stressed that it was the first visit to Turkey by a Bulgarian Defence Minister since 1917 . |
7 | It was the first visit by a Mongolian minister to the Russian Federation . |
8 | It was the first visit to China by a German foreign minister since the reunification of Germany in October 1990 . |
9 | It was the third visit to Chichester for the company of final year students of the Northern Ballet 's Central School of Ballet who both surprised and astounded their audiences with a fast moving and challenging selection of classical and contemporary works . |