Example sentences of "the first major " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first major demonstration of this was in 1983 , in the controversy over the abortion amendment . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Midland , whose staff is 56 per cent female , is the first major clearing bank to start a nursery programme : others are expected to follow in the drive to woo mothers back to work . |
| 5 | Oil giant Shell UK appeared in court at Birkenhead , Merseyside yesterday charged with polluting the River Mersey in the first major case brought by the new pollution watchdog , the National Rivers Authority . |
| 6 | The first major show to examine the development of Russian art over the last century . |
| 7 | It would be the first major peacekeeping force deployed in the Western Hemisphere . |
| 8 | The European elections saw Labour capture forty-five seats to the Conservatives ' thirty-two , the first major defeat for Mrs Thatcher in ten years of premiership . |
| 9 | Its powers were extended by the Housing Acts of 1894 , 1900 and 1903 , and also by the Housing and Town Planning Act of 1909 , the first major housing measure not introduced by Conservatives . |
| 10 | The first major problem with Fforde 's work is that it equates collectivism with socialism , which is as historically wrong as it is jejune . |
| 11 | Thus we are told that Brook Taylor , the author of the first major British work on perspective ( 1715 ) , was ‘ a professional Newtonian scientist ’ ( p. 287 ) . |
| 12 | The first major attempt to use computer animation in a feature film was largely down to the novelty of the medium itself . |
| 13 | Four separate military task forces were deployed in the first major military deployment of the Bush presidency , with the Pentagon keen to show that if the traditional threat in central Europe was declining , it was ready to project US power elsewhere in the globe . |
| 14 | Ideally your carpets should be the first major purchase in your new home , for it is around this essential item of furnishing that the rest of your interiors should be planned . |
| 15 | Morrissey is the first major teen icon whose aesthetic is based around the conviction that rock'n'roll 's best years are ( in the ) past , that the premises of youth culture have been outflanked ( ‘ I Know It 's Over ’ ) . |
| 16 | The first major teen icon whose work is grounded not in anticipation and impatience , but vacillation , resignation and looking back . |
| 17 | And in 1942 the first major bombings of German cities were carried out by allied air flotillas , and as the Luftwaffe lost control of the skies many Germans began to experience with dread the sort of terror-bombing which their own airforce had inflicted on numerous European cities since 1939 and which the allies were now returning with immeasurably greater force and concentration . |
| 18 | The simultaneous news that the Commander in Chief of the Army , von Brauchitsch , had been relieved of his duties and that Hitler himself had taken over the direct military leadership of the army , together with the undeniable fact that the German advance had come to a halt and the Soviet counter-attack close to Moscow could only be staved off with partial retreats , and , not least , the entry of the United States into the war , combined to produce the first major shock to the German population during the Second World War . |
| 19 | Trekforce ( 071 498 0855 ) is run by Wandy Swales , ex-stalwart of Operations Raleigh and Drake , and plans expeditions in 1992 to Sumatra , Sulawesi and a two-part trip to Irian Jaya — the first major British scientific expedition there . |
| 20 | PAUL PAGE , 20 , of Langley Park , won the first major amateur prize of the season when he took the Berkhamsted Trophy in a sudden-death play-off with Matt Maguire after both players recorded one-under-par totals of 141 , writes Bill Meredith . |
| 21 | AS THE plutocrats of world golf prepare to fly to Augusta for the first major championship of the season , — in some cases in their personal executive jets — it is a safe bet none of them sit back and reflect on the origins of their good fortune . |
| 22 | Meanwhile the first major biography of the Smiths phenomenon appears later this month . |
| 23 | But Steilmann is the first major manufacturer to tackle this issue in Europe ; in America Esprit has launched its Ecollection and Levi has developed Nature jeans . |
| 24 | But his rejuvenation of religious and , to a lesser extent , secular , texts and libraries was the first major effort at establishing a corpus of learning in the West on the part of a king since the collapse of the original Roman state . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | As the first major book devoted wholly to Langmuir-Blodgett ( LB ) films , this book covers virtually all aspects of the preparation , characterisation and potential applications of these molecular assemblies . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The first major accident in an American nuclear reactor occurred at a small prototype military plant in Idaho in 1961 . |
| 29 | The first major demonstration at Torness , in 1978 , was organized by the fledgling Scottish Campaign to Resist the Atomic Menace(SCRAM) , whose name was a clever play on nuclear jargon for an emergency shutdown . |
| 30 | It was also the first major examination in Britain of the whole nuclear controversy . |