Example sentences of "[adv] the first major " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Commission 's action against Dennis Levine was perhaps the first major success . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I think it is only fair to point out that this is not the first major development on the Ringdufferin Road . |
| 4 | Meanwhile the first major biography of the Smiths phenomenon appears later this month . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was also the first major examination in Britain of the whole nuclear controversy . |
| 7 | It 's also the first major re-design of the spreadsheet in 10 years and it 's a vast improvement . |
| 8 | 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 ] . |
| 9 | Although some remedial work had been carried out the first major improvement was made in 1710 with the completion of a new stone pier . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |