Example sentences of "[verb] the [num ord] major [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1972 the Local Government Act made the first major change in the local government system of England and Wales ( apart from the restructuring in London , which took place in 1963 ) , since the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | On March 1 the Popular Liberation Army ( EPL ) , after 23 years of clandestine struggle , became the second major guerrilla group to lay down arms and enter political life as a party , formally changing its name to the Hope , Peace and Liberty party ( with the same Spanish acronym , EPL ) . |
| 3 | It was during this period that it became the second major party in British politics , and Britain 's leading progressive party . |
| 4 | The Boipatong massacre became the first major hurdle which rugby had to overcome and this led to the implementation of All Black and Wallaby tour conditions such a the minute 's silence prior to each test , the display of peace and democracy signed at match venues and in match programmes , the non-playing of national anthems and the removal of any official flying of the South African national flag . |
| 5 | The city became the first major growth point of the Central Lowlands . |
| 6 | In a joint venture with Petrolimex , the Vietnamese state oil company , BP became the first major oil company to build a lubricants blending plant and to market lubricants in that country . |
| 7 | Following the opening of the Deviation in 1978 , the rebuilding of the old line between Tan y Grisiau and Blaenau became the next major goal for the Railway . |
| 8 | Mr Morgan purchased the Murray Collection en bloc in 1910 , bringing the first major group of Old Master drawings to America . |
| 9 | Narin 's seminal Report to the Foundation , carried out by Computer Horizons Inc. on data from the Science Citation Index , represents the first major effort by any country 's scientific policy-makers , to use bibliometric indicators to forecast and plan research expenditure on a national scale , although Price had , in 1969 , related the size of a country 's scientific literature to its Gross National Product ( GNP ) . |
| 10 | In his work in the western part of the United States not only did he describe physical erosive processes but was also able to derive a system of laws governing progress from initial to adjusted forms ( Chorley , Dunn and Beckinsale , 1964 ) and in his Report on the Geology of the Henry Mountains ( 1877 ) he provided the first major treatment by a geologist of the mechanics of fluvial processes . |
| 11 | He added : ‘ Current scientific opinion strongly suggests that combination therapy is likely to provide the next major advance in the management of HIV infection . |
| 12 | This highlights the second major difficulty with the theories , the general assumption that there is a unitary dimension of arousal . |
| 13 | If the new arrangements are adequately funded and properly implemented , they will comprise the first major government initiative to foster care at home rather than in institutions . |
| 14 | ‘ But in 1973 came the first major oil shock . |
| 15 | In 1979 , however , came the second major oil price increase of the decade , followed by a general depression in the West . |
| 16 | However , it did mark the first major overhaul of the Treaties of Rome , it reformed EC institutions to some extent and it succeeded in keeping the members united . |
| 17 | Palaces were constructed in the ancient Austrasian royal centres , and Charles instigated the first major bridge building for centuries , with a structure 500 metres long at Mainz . |
| 18 | Guy's/St Thomas 's Hospital could become the second major centre , although it faces competition from the Royal Brompton/Chelsea and Westminster for the provision of paediatric cardiac services , and from St George 's linked to the Royal Marsden ( Sutton ) for cancer services . |
| 19 | MacCabe and Heath had studied in Paris , and Signs of the Times has its niche in postwar cultural history , marking the first major re-entry of French intellectual influences since Eliot 's adherence to Remy de Gourmont and the French neoclassicists , half a century earlier . |
| 20 | Bavaria is facing the first major sell-off of an historic private collection since the war , and they have consulted Britain on how to respond , as England is all too used to such dispersals ( Yet another took place last month with the sale of Pitchford Hall ) . |
| 21 | THE province 's top triathletes are set to converge on Newtownabbey this weekend as the borough hosts the last major event in the |
| 22 | The new law constituted the first major revision of the quotas of legal immigration in 25 years and ranked in importance with the Quota Act of 1921 , which established the first numerical restrictions , and the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 . |
| 23 | Changes to the law relating to agricultural land introduced in late April and early May constituted the first major reform of land-tenure legislation since 1969 . |
| 24 | The conference , the first of its kind openly held in Iraq , brought together all major opposition parties including several based in Iran , Saudi Arabia and Syria which had boycotted the last major opposition conference held in Vienna in June [ see p. 38985 ] . |
| 25 | It culminated in the total defeat of Japan and initiated the second major watershed in modern Japanese history , the reforms carried out under the Allied ( de facto US ) Occupation of 1945–52 . |
| 26 | Shinto 's resignation from NTT in December 1988 had marked the first major development in the Recruit affair , a scandal which had involved the purchase of influence by Recruit chairman Hiromasa Ezoe , in return for the provision of cheap pre-flotation shares in a Recruit subsidiary to leading figures within of the country 's political , administrative and economic spheres . |
| 27 | Man as a Geological Agent , published by R.L. Sherlock in 1922 , and a related article ( Sherlock , 1923 ) offered the next major milestone . |
| 28 | But it was neither safety , monopoly nor dangerous debt loads that precipitated the first major intervention in the industry by Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner last week . |
| 29 | The bill represented the first major overhaul of US energy policy since the 1970s . |
| 30 | Bloomfield 's publication of Language ( Bloomfield , 1933 ) represented the first major statement to combine both the theory and practice of linguistic analysis . |