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 .
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