Example sentences of "the first [adj] study " in BNC.
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| 1 | The International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) in Vienna is close to finishing its report on the first systematic study of the Chernobyl region by outsiders . |
| 2 | The first systematic study of intergroup competition was made about twenty years ago by Sherif and colleagues in the United States . |
| 3 | Thomas Stanton 's courageous book is the first comprehensive study of these monsters , revealing their history , how they work today and how , with better regulation , they might escape a repeat of the $500 billion savings-and-loan fiasco . |
| 4 | This book is the first comprehensive study of these gardens , and was reviewed in the RIBA Journal last month . |
| 5 | John Murray 's Patronage in Renaissance Italy from 1400 to the early Sixteenth Century by Mary Hollingsworth is the first comprehensive study of patrons in the Italian Quattrocento ( April , £19.99 ) . |
| 6 | In the heyday of Napoleon 's conquests he had access to fossils from all over Europe and was thus in a position to make the first comprehensive study . |
| 7 | This project thus aims to fill an important gap by providing the first comprehensive study of policing in Ireland from the 1830s to the 1920s . |
| 8 | Their contents will add to our knowledge of all aspects of small communities in the early modern period as well as enabling the first comprehensive study of a squire-dominated community in this period . |
| 9 | The first comprehensive study in Britain that looks specifically at Black women 's experience of domestic violence is currently nearing completion . |
| 10 | In the first comprehensive study of intestinal function in patients with diarrhoea caused by chronic radiation enteritis , we have shown a high prevalence of abnormalities in intestinal transit and absorption . |
| 11 | The first comprehensive study of the quality of environmental impact reports in Britain has found that three quarters associated with major road building schemes are unsatisfactory , while two-thirds submitted to local authorities to cover factories , farm buildings , out-of-town shopping centres and quarries are also inadequate . |
| 12 | Its aim is to provide the first comprehensive study of childhood injuries in the district and form the basis of an accident prevention drive . |
| 13 | The first recent study showing the possibilities and implications of such ‘ estates ’ was that of Withington in Gloucestershire by Professor Finberg . |
| 14 | To our knowledge this is the first prospective study that has shown that bacterial pneumonia is associated with HIV seroconversion among intravenous drug misusers . |
| 15 | Peter Thornton 's book is the first serious study of this vast and sometimes elusive subject and the fourth in a series of thematically non-sequential books from Weidenfeld and Nicolson initiated by Mr Thornton with his richly informative Authentic Décor : The Domestic Interior 1620–1920 . |
| 16 | Marks 's book will be the first modern study of the medium and discusses issues such as donors , technique , the workshops and stylistic developments . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Our main 1979 survey was designed largely to throw light on this relationship between people 's knowledge about credit and how they make actual shopping decisions — the first major study to explore this in this country , and more searching in this respect than even the valuable American studies carried out recently for the National Commission on Consumer Finance and the Federal Reserve Board . |
| 19 | But this is the first major study devoted to them , and the Chancery documents have provided useful supplementary material , including letters from performers and copies of contracts . |
| 20 | This is the first full study of the greatest period in the city 's history , which produced such painters as Melozzo and Palmezzano . |
| 21 | The Eugenics Society set up in 1926 the first medical study on contraceptive experience , which reported benefits to health . |
| 22 | This project will carry out the first longitudinal study of the relationships between health and health related behaviour ; education and training ; and employment in men . |
| 23 | Bell 's essay divides into six chapters , four of which cover his figurative or narrative work , one being reserved for his portraiture , including his nude studies of Patricia , and the final chapter dealing with his landscapes and still-life canvases , the first proper study of this popular business which , surprisingly , accounted for more than one half of his entire production . |
| 24 | The first formal study of the persuasive effect of language was written two and a half thousand years ago . |
| 25 | This will provide the first historical study of how groups of men and women in Britain experienced different types of career patterns in the course of their adult lives . |
| 26 | This is the first in-depth study of Charlie Rolls as a pioneer aviator . |
| 27 | In 1934/35 , Frank Fraser Darling made the first intensive study of deer , and his book A Herd of Red Deer is still a valuable source book . |
| 28 | The report , which the Children 's Society says is the first detailed study of runaway youngsters , calls for a national centralised system for collecting statistics on missing juveniles . |
| 29 | The Altarpiece in Renaissance Venice by Peter Humpfrey is the first detailed study in English of the Renaissance altarpiece and focuses on Venice from 1450–1530 . |
| 30 | This research attempts to provide the first detailed study of the formation of the modern medical profession within the context of local communities . |