Example sentences of "'s first [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE world 's first museum to the humble sardine has opened at Grau-du-Roi on the coast of southern France — and is hoping to be tightly packed with thousands of visitors . |
| 2 | The Gardener 's and Florist 's Dictionary of 1724 can be regarded as Philip Miller 's first contribution to garden literature . |
| 3 | This design , which was to be Mickie 's first contribution to the war effort , featured three blades per rotor and was powered by a DH Gipsy VI motor . |
| 4 | That , say those in favour , makes it a worthy site for Cheltenham 's first contribution to the Government-backed scheme for art in public places . |
| 5 | This year is the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus 's first voyage to America . |
| 6 | The group 's first trip to Maida Vale on behalf of the John Peel programme was in February 1986/ They recorded four songs including a heady version of ‘ Felicity ’ . |
| 7 | He stayed within budget for Mata Mua , which dates from Gauguin 's first trip to Tahiti in 1892 and shows two young girls in the foreground , with older women dancing round a stone figure behind them . |
| 8 | It will be Ballymena 's first trip to Brandywell since that infamous day in 1972 when a United bus was subjected to an arson attack . |
| 9 | Pope 's first trip to former Soviet Union |
| 10 | It was Mr Deans 's first trip to an offshore installation , although he has been a seaman for a number of years . |
| 11 | The show marks London Contemporary Dance 's first trip to Liverpool for five years . |
| 12 | The churches split in 1534 after the Pope refused to annul the king 's first marriage to Catherine of Aragon so he could marry Anne . |
| 13 | It was 25 October , nineteen days since Simon Cormack had been kidnapped and seventeen since Zack 's first call to the Kensington apartment . |
| 14 | Although Blackett had been a member of the MAUD Committee — Britain 's first approach to atomic energy , subsequently dismantled after the realistic appraisal that if anyone could pull-off the atomic bomb it would be the Americans — Blackett 's love affair with the Russians ensured that he played no part in the US wartime atomic bomb project or its post-1945 British successor . |
| 15 | Hahnemann 's first approach to the treatment of disease ( Chapter 6 ) , that of preventive medicine , aims at removing the extrinsic , environmental components . |
| 16 | Oleg Sokolov , the Soviet Union 's first ambassador to South Korea , had arrived in Seoul on Dec. 7 . |
| 17 | Alexandr Bovin , the Soviet Union 's first ambassador to Israel since relations were severed in 1967 , presented his letter of accreditation to President Chaim Herzog on Dec. 23 , informing Herzog that on Jan. 1 , 1992 , he would become the Russian , as opposed to the Soviet , ambassador in Israel . |
| 18 | It is Insignia 's first port to IBM Corp . |
| 19 | Otis Grand 's first exposure to the blues was in Oakland , California , where the suburbs teemed with juke joints and the radio stations played nothing but blues . |
| 20 | The tie-up is Link 's first exposure to X-terminals . |
| 21 | From Bailey 's first thrust to Simon Smith 's closing dig there was only one side in it as Bedford stumbled to their fourth defeat in five matches . |
| 22 | The 1985 study reports no examples of parents teaching their children at home under the guidance of a teacher ; no activity packs for use at the time of the children 's first admission to school ; no parents helping in the classroom with music , and no home-school liaison assistants or secondary/junior/infant liaison teachers . |
| 23 | Phillis 's first response to Sylvanus confronts the image of the land as a young woman ripe for sexual enjoyment : |
| 24 | Jaremko notes that the person 's first response to the threat will usually be a physiological one the pounding heart , as the body prepares for fight or flight . |
| 25 | One more thing , if I may , we 've just been told of the government 's first response to the consultation arrangements , sorry , wrong wrong item , it 's all right . |
| 26 | Such as disaster may well result in the pondkeeper 's first introduction to fishkeeping periodicals and specialist clubs , when they really should have read up all they need to know on the subject and taken specialist advice beforehand . |
| 27 | The Kremlin 's first reaction to western reports was an attempt to say the West was trying to make a mountain out of a molehill . |
| 28 | The DUP 's first reaction to the murder was to suggest to the OUP that a joint candidate , acceptable to both parties , be found . |
| 29 | Khrushchev 's first reaction to the naval quarantine was to denounce it as " outright banditry " ; but two days later he halted five ships outside the quarantine zone and sent Kennedy a letter offering to remove the missiles in return for a public pledge that the USA would not invade Cuba . |
| 30 | Lucy 's first reaction to her father 's pleading had been No chance . |