Example sentences of "[pron] first official " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not so surprising , as this is their first official demo , though the group members ( all two of them ! ) have been around on the scene since 1988 . |
| 2 | Eight years of isolation , broken only by the ‘ buying-in ’ of the 1986 Cavaliers and 1989 World XV tours , subsequently came to an end in Durban when the New Zealanders kicked off their first official tour on South African soil for 15 years . |
| 3 | China and Russia signed a trade pact on March 5 , their first official agreement since the collapse of the Soviet Union . |
| 4 | THE legendary ( but subtly different ) charms of Bill Clinton and John Major will have been fully taxed at their first official meeting in Washington yesterday . |
| 5 | PRINCESS DIANA captured the attention of the photographers yet again today when she arrived in South Korea with Prince Charles for their first official visit there . |
| 6 | Chiswick had its first official Fire Station in 1891 — with motor ambulances — the first in England . |
| 7 | It had its first official meeting after a Union talk on heterosexism . |
| 8 | The darker humour associated with ED 209 , which does indeed look quite large and threatening at first ( and not at all like a model only one foot ( 30cm ) high , which it is ) is typified when it , in error , riddles a young executive with machine-gun bullets on its first official presentation and the stunned silence is broken by a cry of ‘ Someone send for a paramedic ! ’ |
| 9 | In its first official comment on Aug. 20 Iraq denounced Western plans for an aerial exclusion zone as an " imperialist conspiracy " aimed at dismembering the country , and claimed that the scheme had been devised with the active co-operation of Iran [ see also below ] . |
| 10 | On her first official visit to Derbyshire in fourteen years , Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother , President of the National Trust , received a royal welcome at Calke Abbey in May . |
| 11 | They also made the evening gown for her first official engagement , a charity gala in the city of London , which created almost as big a sensation as the dress which graced St Paul 's Cathedral a few months later . |
| 12 | A DECISION was being taken today on whether the 92-year-old Queen Mother , newly released from hospital , can immediately get back to work by attending her first official engagement , scheduled for tomorrow . |
| 13 | Chancellor Kohl , on his first official visit to East Germany , was mobbed in the centre of Dresden by a crowd of several thousand shouting : ‘ Germany , Germany ’ , ‘ Helmut , Helmut , ’ and ‘ Germany united Fatherland ’ . |
| 14 | Dr Kohl was speaking at the end of a two-day visit to Dresden — his first official trip to East Germany — which left him clearly pleased with his reception and warm response to his striving for German unity . |
| 15 | BJORN BORG who , at 36 , is still contemplating a return to Grand Slam tournaments , faces Olivier Delaitre , of France — ranked 44th in the world — when he plays his first official men 's singles match for almost a year in Nice tomorrow . |
| 16 | On 20 March he had his first official invitation to dine at the Tuileries , where he was seated next to the Empress . |
| 17 | While his boss , on his first official visit to Britain as Russian President , was cooling his heels at No 10 by John Major , his driver was left to introduce his 20ft long , 7ft wide Zil limousine to London 's narrow streets . |
| 18 | ‘ I thought he did quite well in the first-half of his first official match . |
| 19 | Yet he waited until 1986 for his first official race on the dirt and began his tarmac career just a year later . |
| 20 | President Joaquim Chissano , making his first official visit to the United States , met President George Bush on March 13 for two hours of talks , in what was seen as marking an improvement in relations between the two countries . |
| 21 | In his first official visit to the United States , Sassou-Nguesso in February 1990 held talks with US President Bush , officials of the US administration and private business people . |
| 22 | King Mswati made his first official foreign visits in October 1989 , in a three-week tour which began on Oct. 6 in Mozambique where he met President Joaquim Chissano . |
| 23 | Gorbachev arrived in Spain for his first official visit on Oct. 26 . |
| 24 | On his first official visit to the United Kingdom on May 7-8 González met with UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd and Prime Minister John Major . |
| 25 | During his first official visit to Bonn on June 12-13 Soviet Foreign Minister Aleksandr Bessmertnykh had confirmed that Soviet nuclear weapons were still on German territory , although Soviet Defence Minister Marshal Dmitry Yazov had denied this the previous week . |
| 26 | French President François Mitterrand paid his first official visit to the new German states on Sept. 18-20 at the invitation of von Weizsäcker who accompanied him . |
| 27 | He followed this with his first official act , which was to reduce the annual salary of the president from $225,000 to $175,000 . |
| 28 | President Patricio Aylwin Azócar was told by US President Bush on May 14 , during his first official visit to the USA since taking office in March 1990 , that Chile would be the next country with which the US would negotiate a free trade agreement , after the completion of talks between the USA , Mexico and Canada to establish a North American Free Trade Area ( NAFTA — see p. 38761 ) . |
| 29 | Mujjaddedi visited Islamabad , the Pakistan capital , on May 26-27 , his first official visit to a foreign country [ see p. 38848 for late April visit by Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to Kabul ] . |
| 30 | Dimitrov paid his first official visit to neighbouring Turkey on May 5-7 . |