Example sentences of "the first important " in BNC.

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1 The sale of Irises was the first important test of the art market 's resilience to Black Monday , the stock market crash of 19 October 1987 .
2 The first important truth for voters in such spirits is that , in their dismay about recent economic and political errors , they are forgetting the immense Tory achievements which preceded them , and are now at risk again .
3 ‘ Personal self-denial for the good of others was the first important lesson Annie learned , ’ says Taylor , ‘ and it was a principle by which she stood for the rest of her life . ’
4 They set up the first important theatre in Prague in the Clementinum with the Czech language as its medium .
5 To help you to take the first important steps , we have produced the Barclays Small Business Pack .
6 The importance of this discovery can not be over-estimated , for through it I was led on to the further discovery of the Primary Control of the workings of all the mechanisms of the human organisms , and this marked the first important stage of my investigation .
7 Pulling a few exaggerated grimaces just before you go through the door will help you make the first important smile .
8 Their dining room that Christmas of 1850 was the scene of a sumptuous dinner attended by family and friends , and it was the first important one at which Sarah Byrne was allowed to serve .
9 The first important facet of this inside story is teachers ' own view of what they would wish the job to be like .
10 St Paul 's was the first important example of the new ‘ auditory ’ churches which were to become increasingly common in the later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries .
11 The first important difference is that under Order 53 the applicant must first apply for leave to make an AJR .
12 The first important modern paintings sale of the year held by Guy Loudmer on 16 February contained nothing to compare with the outstanding works featured in his sales during the height of the speculative boom two or three years ago .
13 Organised by the Henry Moore Foundation , the City of Paris and the British Council , the exhibition is the first important show devoted to Moore in France since 1977 , when sculptures and drawings were shown in the Orangerie and the Tuileries gardens and the artists ' graphics were exhibited in the Bibliothèque Nationale .
14 The first important point in interpreting these wide differences in prevalence estimates between studies is the method used to define dementia .
15 For example , a man with a strong attachment to his mother may marry and divorce a number of women in search of the first important relationship with his mother .
16 Realism , claimed Carr , is a well-established way of thinking about the world : witness , for instance , Machiavelli , ‘ the first important political realist ’ .
17 The first important lesson was about sub- contract work .
18 The first important step was made by an amateur , a Swiss schoolmaster called Balmer .
19 Where you study is the first important step towards survival and success as a student .
20 The first important point to the argument here concerns Corvan 's choice of tunes .
21 Thus the first important government report on depressed areas in the early 1930s concluded that such areas ‘ can only escape from the vicious cycle , where depression created unemployment and unemployment intensified depression by means of some positive external assistance ’ .
22 The first important discovery was made by Mendel , in the mid-nineteenth century .
23 The Norwegian biologist Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe made the first important observations on dominance , in the 1920s .
24 To the first important one , the Order of St Louis created by Louis XIV , were now added the Prussian Pour le Mérite in 1740 ( though until 1810 this was also awarded to civilians ) , the Habsburg Order of Maria Theresa ( 1757 ) and the Russian Order of St George ( 1769 ) .
25 The first important consequence of the SEP pointed out by Einstein is the prediction that gravitational fields affect radiation .
26 The first important point , however , is that compared with the same point on the economic cycle 10 years ago , manufacturing volume is up three quarters , productivity is up half and output is up one third .
27 The first important difference between such research and the earlier laboratory work is that in such research the items to be remembered are generally themselves the source of arousal .
28 The first important step was to separate the purchasing and providing functions and devolve services such as personnel and finance to units .
29 But , but but ending feudalism is the first important stance .
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