Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] first major " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ] . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Leeds was also responsible for the first major excavation of a settlement at Sutton Courtenay , Berkshire ( Leeds 1923 ; 1927 ; 1947 ) as well as reporting on a number of cemeteries ( 1916 ; 1924 ; and Harden 1936 ; and Riley 1942 ; and Shortt 1953 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | One of the first major attractions was the Sir Hiram Maxim flying machine , opened in 1904 and still operating today ! |
| 6 | One of the first major pieces of legislation controlling what information went on packets was passed as recently as 1953 . |
| 7 | It is significant that one of the first major published attacks on Indirect Rule was written by a Northern Nigeria DO , Walter Crocker , whose animus against the system clearly arose not from disagreement with its basic principles but from the fact that DOs were allowed so little responsibility within it . |
| 8 | One of the first major changes to tram services , was to affect the Croydon area . |
| 9 | Mr Lawrence 's appointment was one of the first major changes to hit the organisation after its new corporate identity was launched in 1986 . |
| 10 | Ironically in view of their later slip down the headhunting league table , the firm of Boyden was responsible for one of the first major searches , a landmark in the history of executive search and a vital precursor of the work of the Big four . |
| 11 | At about the same time , i.e. the end of the nineteenth century , Charles Booth ( 1840–1916 ) was conducting one of the first major social surveys , which he published between 1891 and 1903 in seventeen volumes entitled Life and Labour of the People in London . |
| 12 | Public health had been one of the first major areas of government social intervention , beginning with the Public Health Act of 1848 . |
| 13 | One of the first major presentations of the results of the first phase of the initiative was to senior staff of the Children 's Division and the Social Services Inspectorate of the DHSS . |
| 14 | One of the first major investors under this new legislation was the German motor manufacturers Volkswagen which invested DM9,600 million ( US$5,690 million ) , and took an initial 25 per cent stake in Skoda , the Czechoslovak state-owned car manufacturer . |
| 15 | Margaret had one of the first major heart operations carried out in the UK more than 27 years ago in Edinburgh . |
| 16 | Oil group Lasmo was one of the first major companies to report full-year results . |