Example sentences of "the first comprehensive " in BNC.
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| 1 | PRIVATISATION sales have only partially extended share ownership to all social groups , suggests the first comprehensive survey of shareholding . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The primary services — family doctors , dentists , pharmacists — are very much the front line of health care and in 1986 we published a Green Paper which was the first comprehensive review of the services for forty years . |
| 4 | The orientation changed to ‘ Fürsorgeerziehung ’ ( literally ‘ welfare education ’ ) in the first comprehensive national law reform of 1896 ( the Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch , BGB ) which came into force in 1900 and which still forms the basis , for example , for involuntary reception into care in cases where parents ‘ abuse their parental power ’ ( s. 1666 ) . |
| 5 | We published the first comprehensive White Paper on the Environment in 1990 . |
| 6 | This book is the first comprehensive study of these gardens , and was reviewed in the RIBA Journal last month . |
| 7 | The ‘ enhanced Programme resulted from the 1978 Inner Urban Areas Act , based on a White Paper , published the previous year , on Policy for the Inner Cities ( DoE , 1977 ) , the first comprehensive policy statement on the subject to acknowledge it as a definable and cohesive problem . |
| 8 | When the Civil Service proceeded to the first comprehensive retirement programme in the 1850s , the justification for imposing the cowardly administrative convenience of an age barrier was how invidious it would have been to attempt any form of assessment . |
| 9 | It was , after all , the first comprehensive Welfare Act directly intended for adolescents ( 14–17 ) , although previous legislation had specified hours and conditions of labour for children and young persons , and young adolescents were included in several of the clauses in the Children Act 1908 . |
| 10 | It constituted the first comprehensive review of management development since the mid-1970s , and the first time that management development requirements were discussed nationally in the context of an explicit notion of ‘ management ’ . |
| 11 | By 1910 revised maps and detailed memoirs had been published on the Edinburgh and East Lothian districts and the following year the first comprehensive account of the Glasgow area was issued . |
| 12 | OUR January issue cover story was the first comprehensive airing of the pros and cons regarding South Africa 's suitability as the next venue . |
| 13 | Published by Arts and Co. , the present catalogue is the first comprehensive treatment of this collection . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | The first comprehensive guidebook to The Roman Remains of Southern France by James Bromwich ( £25 ) is organised in a simple alphabetical format with maps , plans and photographs . |
| 16 | But the first comprehensive monograph on Keith Haring , edited by Germano Celant ( DM78 ) , as well as Andreas Franzke 's big up-to-date monograph on Antoni Tapies ( DM168 ) , and the complete catalogue of the nearly 200 works by Picasso in Picasso in the Ludwig collection ( Picasso — Die Sammlung Ludwig , DM108 ) all come out simultaneously in both a German and an English edition . |
| 17 | For the start of 1993 , Hatje promises Walter Ophey 1880–1930 , Leben und Werk by Stefan Krause ( DM98 ) , the first comprehensive critical monograph of this expressionist from Dusseldorf , including a full catalogue of Ophey 's paintings and prints , and Wassilij Kandinsky by the German-Russian author , Jelena Hahl-Koch ( DM198 ) . |
| 18 | DEC this week will bring out DEC FullSail , the first comprehensive application put on the market for managing distributed Unix systems . |
| 19 | Mr Patrick Corbally Stourton , who went out to work in Australia several years ago , and is now managing director of Originals Outback Limited , invited me to the opening of the first comprehensive exhibition of Aboriginal art from the Central Western Desert of Australia to be seen in Europe . |
| 20 | The design and building of a series of new prisons and detention centres , the first comprehensive programme since Victorian times , was embarked upon following Butler 's initiative , but after the early stages fell prey to cutbacks for economic reasons . |
| 21 | Although it included the Byzantine penalties of blinding and mutilation for certain offences , it was far in advance of the legal practices of many medieval states , and it was the first comprehensive legal code amongst the South Slavs . |
| 22 | We subsequently undertook an additional study of the records of 450 call outs of London police surgeons and are now conducting research for the first comprehensive national study of police surgeons . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Long ago , when the colony was flourishing and sugar was being shipped in quantities of menhir-shaped loaves to the storerooms and the kitchens and the taverns and the parlours of the capitals of Europe , a French missionary priest , one Père Labat , wrote one of the first comprehensive travel books about the new world of the islands , chronicling the natives and their customs ( as far as he could ) as well as the way of life the settlers had developed , with their fine mansions and wide verandahs , ornamented with brattishings and cool with shutters and fringed jalousies . |
| 25 | It was not until the California law of 1947 that a state law tackled air pollution other than dense smoke , and not until 1952 that Oregon introduced the first comprehensive state air pollution control legislation . |
| 26 | The original White Paper was the first comprehensive policy statement on the environment by any British Government . |
| 27 | The Belfast Newsletter ( BNL ) index , 1737-1800 , is the first comprehensive computerised index of any significant 18th-century newspaper . |
| 28 | The computerized Belfast Newsletter ( BNL ) Index 1737-1800 seeks to remedy this situation by providing the first comprehensive index of an 18th-century newspaper : 63 years of the oldest , continuously-published English-language newspaper in the world . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |