Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] first major " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the reception I made my first major mistake . |
| 2 | I had won my first major title . |
| 3 | MIDDLESBROUGH offshore business Northern Ocean Services has won its first major contract in seven years of operating from the former Smiths Docks site . |
| 4 | CCG has won its first major contract with BT Marine Ltd to provide catering and housekeeping services on board the 4,750 ton support ship the MV Discovery . |
| 5 | The High Elves had won their first major victory . |
| 6 | In the cities a nascent proletariat was beginning to flex its muscles , forming short-lived illegal organizations of its own and staging its first major strikes . |
| 7 | Soon after the first Immigration Act , the DES produced its first major intervention , revealingly entitled English for Immigrants ( 1963 ) . |
| 8 | This new competition arose out of a battle between banks and building societies which arose when the banks made their first major inroad into the mortgage market . |
| 9 | The Carroll Group 's £3m refurbishment of Martin 's Building in Water Street , Liverpool , has secured its first major letting . |
| 10 | On May 2 the FMLN mounted their first major offensive since November 1989 [ see p. 37037-38 ] , attacking military posts and dynamiting electricity pylons throughout the country and penetrating into the exclusive suburb of Escalón in the capital , San Salvador . |
| 11 | Steel purchase : British Steel has made its first major acquisition since privatisation , buying private group C Walker & Sons , of Blackburn , for £330m . |
| 12 | It was only in the 1850s , while Prussia was ‘ filling in ’ the gaps of its network by connecting up places like Danzig , that Warsaw received its first major rail connections . |
| 13 | During a parliamentary session on March 7-9 Walesa suffered his first major legislative setback when he was defeated by substantial majorities in several votes . |
| 14 | Allen Ginsberg was writing his first major work Howl that summer in the Village . |
| 15 | In 1985 came his first major screen role as the Russian sailor Sergei in the 1985 British film , A Letter To Brezhnev . |
| 16 | Paul Newman had just secured his first major film role , with Pier Angeli in The Silver Chalice ( which was so bad that when it was shown on television in the Sixties , he took out newspaper advertisements apologising to viewers for having to watch it ) . |
| 17 | Three years later he received his first major commission , to decorate Bodley 's new church of St John , Tue Brook , Liverpool . |
| 18 | Had it gone over the bar Wexford would now still be celebrating their first major title in 20 years . |
| 19 | On St Valentines Day that year , the oil cartel , OPEC , had just had its first major success in forcing up in oil prices . |
| 20 | Frank Sinatra was rumoured to have enlisted the Mafia to help secure his first major serious acting role ( see The Godfather ) . |
| 21 | Helmsley artists Fiona Scott , sister of TV presenter Selina , presents her first major exhibition at the Stable Gallery , Wandsworth Common in London tomorrow . |
| 22 | The Newtownabbey Club is soon to hold its first major yearly rally . |
| 23 | Having scored his first major triumph in the Southern League Championship , Chapman began to question the merits of the framework of that triumph , that is , the Southern League itself . |
| 24 | On the Thursday , on a cool , damp evening , Sebastian Coe took his first major 800 metres title , followed home by Tom McKean and Steve Cram . |
| 25 | Sture Sivertsen , of Norway , took his first major individual title by pipping Vladimir Smirnov , of Kazakhastan , by 3.9sec in the 10km cross-country race at the World Nordic Championships , in Falun , Sweden , yesterday . |
| 26 | But when your father has been murdered the day you make only the fourth televised maximum break , when you win your first major title and receive a hero 's reception on returning to your native land , even the prospect of meeting Hendry is going to cause no more than a flutter of the eyelid . |
| 27 | On Jan. 17 at the French Institute on International Relations in Paris Kohl made his first major speech abroad since presenting his 10-point plan for a German confederation on Nov. 28 [ see pp. 37025-26 ] . |
| 28 | A turning-point was reached in the life of Magnus in 1098 when King Magnus Barelegs ( or ‘ Barefoot ’ ) of Norway led his first major military expedition against the British Isles . |
| 29 | Leeds manager Howard Wilkinson condemned the new rule that will get its first major exposure in this country . |
| 30 | DATEC issued its first major proposals in June 1978 which stated that students would be studying for awards conforming to the existing TEC pattern of Certificate , Higher Certificate , Diploma and Higher Diploma via any mode of study . |