Example sentences of "[art] first major [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also saw the first major electoral success for Labour : twenty-nine Labour and Lib-Lab members were returned . |
| 2 | Turkish fortunes began to decline after the raising of the second siege of Vienna ( 1683 ) , and the Treaty of Karlovci ( Carlowitz ) in 1699 recorded the first major Ottoman defeat and the beginning of the slow retreat of the Turks from Europe . |
| 3 | A conference inspired by Beyond the Fragments , was held in Leeds in September 1980 — the first major Right-On gathering after the election which had ushered in the then relatively unknown doctrine of Thatcherism . |
| 4 | Mandatory antenatal screening for syphilis could be the first major antenatal intervention against STDs ; full integration of this policy into antenatal care could provide an avenue for research into pertinent questions raised in the recent WHO review and an opportunity to identify women who need evaluation for other STDs . |
| 5 | Excursions : Zell am See is a marvellous base for many lovely coach tours of the Baroque city of Salzburg with its ancient fortress ; the Grossglockner , a climb up one of the first major Alpine highways ( opened in 1935 ) to see Austria 's highest mountain , set amidst the everlasting snows of the Pasterze glacier ; the Krimml waterfalls ; Vienna : Kaprun : St. Wolfgang and Hallstatt in the Salzkammergut , and even Venice . |
| 6 | Compaq Computer Corp says it is the first major personal computer manufacturer to receive a 1993-1994 US General Services Administration Schedule contract , which runs to March 31 1994 and makes it easier for the federal government to buy Compaq products at pre-set prices . |
| 7 | It was the first major concrete structure to be built in Britain since Roman times . |
| 8 | France , Germany and several other members , stressing its ( more active ) peacemaking potential , saw this as the first major concrete step towards developing the WEU as the " defence component of the European union " as outlined in the Maastricht treaty [ see p. 38658 ] . |
| 9 | ‘ They have been very supportive , ’ he says of the first major professional stage production of the novels . |
| 10 | In 1981 at Bergkaman in the Rühr the first major new mine for 17 years was opened . |
| 11 | The first major upset of the championship came when the Anglo-Scot , Andy Thomson , the No2 seed and bookmakers ' favourite for the title , tumbled out tamely to a world championship debutant , Cameron Curtis , from Australia , 7-6 , 7-1 , 7-0 . |
| 12 | The first major legal challenge over community care assessments is likely to emerge next month when a 22-year-old man with learning difficulties goes to the High Court . |
| 13 | It was the first major industrial dispute to test the Conservative Government 's industrial legislation , or at least potentially to do so . |
| 14 | The Italian Communist Party ( PCI ) was the first major Communist party to adopt a Eurocommunist position in its ‘ historic compromise strategy ’ of 1972 . |
| 15 | The movement was given a further lift by the publication of Peter Singer 's Animal Liberation ( 1975 ) — the first major philosophical discourse on the subject of animal rights — and this was soon followed by a number of other excellent works on the same theme . |
| 16 | This is the first major grid-connected project for BP Solar . |
| 17 | One of those interested in the opportunities for détente was Winston Churchill who was British premier once more and became the first major European statesman to advocate a relaxation of tensions with Russia . |
| 18 | The fact that O'Keeffe was so well-known in her time makes it even more astonishing that we have had to wait until 1993 for the first major European show of her work . |
| 19 | The first major European show in the work of Georgia O'Keeffe opens on London 's South Bank in April . |
| 20 | Partnerships represented the first major inner-city initiative in England . |
| 21 | The announcement was welcomed yesterday by Economy Minister Richard Needham , who said that Novotel was the first major international group attracted to Northern Ireland — but he expected it would not be the last . |
| 22 | The occasion for the split in the National Union was a call from women involved in the International Women 's Suffrage Alliance for delegates to attend a Women 's Congress in The Hague in April 1915 , the first major international meeting of any kind since the outbreak of war . |
| 23 | The first is the 1868 St Petersburg Declaration , which was indeed the first major international agreement prohibiting the use of a particular weapon in warfare — namely the explosive bullet . |
| 24 | Girls Into Science and Technology ( GIST ) was the first major schools-based project addressing problems of sex stereotyping at school , and was an example of ‘ action research ’ in education ; the project simultaneously took action to improve girls ' achievement in science and technology and investigated the reasons for their under-achievement . |
| 25 | The Barbican Art Gallery 's exhibition programme for 1993 will be as follows : 11 March to 13 June ‘ The Sixties Art Scene in London ’ , a survey of over 200 paintings , sculptures and other works produced by artists such as Hockney , Hodgkin , Caro , and Riley ; 8 July to 5 September ‘ Alan Davie ’ , a retrospective largely selected by the artist ; 8 July to 5 September ‘ The Undomestic Product : new perimeters in British Ceramic Art ’ , a reappraisal of the developments and achievements of non-utilitarian British ceramics ; 30 September to 12 December ‘ Alphons Mucha ’ , the first major retrospective of the artist ; and 30 September to 12 December ‘ Bill Brandt ’ , over 250 photographs spanning his career and including his little-shown later collages . |
| 26 | De Gaulle 's plan touched off the first major political storm of the postwar era , which rumbled on throughout the rest of the summer . |
| 27 | It would be the first major peacekeeping force deployed in the Western Hemisphere . |
| 28 | MELROSE won the first major sevens of the season , beating Hawick 24–6 in the final of Glasgow High/Kelvinside 's Ryden tournament . |
| 29 | This was shown by the first major DHAC protest following the 5 October 1968 demonstration , when the committee supported an NILP delegation to the council on the housing issue . |
| 30 | Apart from smallpox it was the first major infectious disease to decline . |