Example sentences of "[adv] the [num ord] major " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Commission 's action against Dennis Levine was perhaps the first major success . |
| 2 | Such as the Canton commune where down here in er Canton , perhaps the second major industrial city in China , the communists rose in revolt erm and attempted to establish erm a kind of red base in the city of Canton . |
| 3 | Indeed , the development of a set of assessment procedures which integrate structural , semantic and functional descriptions of language is perhaps the next major focus for clinical research . |
| 4 | Perhaps the next major project will be breeding , after growing on several of one species ! |
| 5 | A decision to cut or pass the dividend will be especially painful for Costain because of the blow it will be for the 91 per cent of shareholders who took up last year 's rights issue and because Costain will be only the second major contractor , after John Laing , to cut the pay-out . |
| 6 | Vivian Endicott Barnett , ex-Guggenheim curator and author of the ongoing catalogue raisonné of Kandinsky 's watercolours , has put together the first major exhibition of the artist 's work on paper . |
| 7 | Thus the second major influence on behaviour is the reward , or payoff , as it is sometimes called , for acting in a certain way . |
| 8 | I think it is only fair to point out that this is not the first major development on the Ringdufferin Road . |
| 9 | Mungo had been so unnerved by the feather and the peculiar note that it had taken him several moments to decide on the next move ; not the next major move in his life , but literally the act of moving an arm or a leg . |
| 10 | Meanwhile the first major biography of the Smiths phenomenon appears later this month . |
| 11 | We had been talking on the National Consumer Council a bit about the lack of accountability in broadcasting , and I had also , as part of my Advisory Council work , directed and written up the first major study about adults , educational experience and needs — two and a half thousand interviews all over England and Wales . |
| 12 | It was also the first major examination in Britain of the whole nuclear controversy . |
| 13 | It 's also the first major re-design of the spreadsheet in 10 years and it 's a vast improvement . |
| 14 | In January 1990 Prime Minister V. P. Singh made some low-level appointments to the Council of Ministers [ see p. 37346 ] , and carried out the first major expansion of his Ministry in late April [ see p. 37378 ] . |
| 15 | Although some remedial work had been carried out the first major improvement was made in 1710 with the completion of a new stone pier . |
| 16 | Booth and Rowntree , in the late nineteenth century , carried out the first major surveys of income and consumption in London and York respectively , which laid the foundations for a style of social research which was , in the coming years , to play a major role in the formation of policy and social welfare legislation in the United Kingdom . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Indeed the next major standards battle , in 1987–8 , featured IBM ( allied with DEC and Hewlett-Packard ) opposed to AT&T ( allied with Unisys and NCR ) and a new version of the Unix operating system developed by Sun Microsystems . |
| 19 | Likewise the first major reductions in civil service employment had occurred in Greater London itself , which experienced a greater absolute and proportionate loss in 1978–81 ( 19,200 or 12.4 per cent ) than all regions . |