Example sentences of "the first major " in BNC.
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| 31 | The first major English novelist , Daniel Defoe , was a merchant . |
| 32 | The first major American pension scheme , by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1884 , was comparatively late ; yet by 1926 three-quarters of American companies with over 1,000 workers had them . |
| 33 | This was shown by the first major DHAC protest following the 5 October 1968 demonstration , when the committee supported an NILP delegation to the council on the housing issue . |
| 34 | Sir John Dobson 's Newcastle Central , begun in 1846 , was the first major station to apply the form , after which rival companies in their unending struggle for supremacy and prestige strove to achieve ever larger roof-spans . |
| 35 | THE IDEA OF a new organization championing endangered historic buildings grew out of ‘ The Destruction of the Country House ’ , the first major exhibition Roy Strong held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1974 following his appointment as Director . |
| 36 | The first major eruption occurred on Monday , 9 September 1985 in the Lozells Road area of Handsworth , Birmingham . |
| 37 | The first major blow in the events of 1902 struck on 5 May , when the crater lake in the Etang Sec burst through the crater walls , and rushed down the valley of the Riviere Blanche . |
| 38 | In 1981 at Bergkaman in the Rühr the first major new mine for 17 years was opened . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | The movement was given a further lift by the publication of Peter Singer 's Animal Liberation ( 1975 ) — the first major philosophical discourse on the subject of animal rights — and this was soon followed by a number of other excellent works on the same theme . |
| 41 | One of the first major attractions was the Sir Hiram Maxim flying machine , opened in 1904 and still operating today ! |
| 42 | The first major problem is to access the arc data . |
| 43 | The city became the first major growth point of the Central Lowlands . |
| 44 | One of the first major pieces of legislation controlling what information went on packets was passed as recently as 1953 . |
| 45 | Partnerships represented the first major inner-city initiative in England . |
| 46 | Infomart of Toronto is to sell Telidon-based equipment to Australia the first major incursion into a market that Britain 's Prestel has dominated . |
| 47 | But this is the first major announcement of aid for the drug industry , apart from £9 million for biotechnology research last month . |
| 48 | The first major use for the machine will be in separating Factor 8 , needed by haemophiliacs to make their blood clot , from human blood plasma . |
| 49 | On Monday 27 July 1778 the first major action of the new war was fought some 70 miles [ 112 km ] west of Ushant , and proved indecisive , but convinced Louis XIV 's chief minister , the Comte de Vergennes , that he needed Spanish help to clear the way for a successful invasion . |
| 50 | It was the first major industrial dispute to test the Conservative Government 's industrial legislation , or at least potentially to do so . |
| 51 | As soon as we ask what faith is and what sort of mistreatment of faith causes doubt , we are led to the first major misconception about doubt — the idea that doubt is the opposite of faith and the same thing as unbelief . |
| 52 | This distinction is absolutely vital because it uncovers and deals with the first major misconception of doubt — the idea that in doubting a believer is betraying faith and surrendering to unbelief . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | The first major victory for ‘ Ultra ’ . |
| 55 | A similar item coming up is the attitude to Maastricht — the first major debate to be held by the new parliament . |
| 56 | It was the first major break she 's had during her career . |
| 57 | These incursions were , however , small-scale and localised compared with the first major upheaval in the life of Tudor Sussex , the Reformation . |
| 58 | One of the first major changes to tram services , was to affect the Croydon area . |
| 59 | The announcement was welcomed yesterday by Economy Minister Richard Needham , who said that Novotel was the first major international group attracted to Northern Ireland — but he expected it would not be the last . |
| 60 | I think it is only fair to point out that this is not the first major development on the Ringdufferin Road . |