Example sentences of "the first european " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 20-year overnight transformation from an obscure documentarist working with Krzysztof Zanussi 's Tor unit to Poland 's leading director came on November 26 when Kieslowski 's A Short Film About Killing ( Krotki Film O Zabijaniu ) took the first European Oscar . |
| 2 | This was first proposed in 1974 but when the Environmental Protection Bill becomes law , the UK will be the first European country to put in place a national system of integrated control The importance of IPC is that it aims to treat the environment as it is : an inter-related system where pollutants can be exchanged between air , water and land . |
| 3 | She represented Austria in the first European Women 's Bridge Championship of 1935 ( winning it , and the next in 1936 ) . |
| 4 | Paul Stern , the vice-president of the Vienna Bridge Club , soon invited her to join the Austrian Ladies ' Team , which was preparing for the first European Women 's Teams Championship to be held in Brussels in 1935 . |
| 5 | The first European symposium on Quality management and assurance in testing laboratories will be held in Strasbourg , France , on 28–30 January 1992 . |
| 6 | The first European Prix Galien has been awarded to Glaxo for ondansetron ( Zofran ) its novel 5-HT3 anatagonist . |
| 7 | But the most tragic movement of population was one of emigration into Lebanon by the victims of the first European Holocaust , the Armenians . |
| 8 | This Chinese water-wheel clock was not only quite different from , but was a good deal more accurate than , the first European mechanical clocks and in this respect may not have been surpassed until after the introduction of the pendulum clock in the seventeenth century . |
| 9 | When the first European missionaries came to China in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries no trace remained of the heavenly clockwork of five hundred years earlier . |
| 10 | In 1924 Madame Neel was the first European woman to enter Lhasa , the capital city of Tibet , and she had to travel disguised as an ignorant and grimy old country woman . |
| 11 | According to traditions in Benin , casting was introduced there from Ife at a date estimated to be towards the end of the 14th century , about a century before the first European contact with Benin was made by sea . |
| 12 | Kepler , a spacecraft to orbit Mars and study the planet 's atmosphere , magnetic field and gravitational field , would have been the first European planetary mission . |
| 13 | The first European Indoor Games had been held in Dortmund twenty years earlier and |
| 14 | There are still those alive today in Zambia , Malawi and Uganda who remember the establishment of the first European boma in their area . |
| 15 | To take a single example , it is reported that the grandchildren of the first European colonists of North America already had eyelid-shapes tending towards those of the Red Indians , which were better adapted to looking out over vast spaces in bright sunlight . |
| 16 | William , it was rumoured , could lead a man to the very spot where the Pacific Ocean was first seen by the first European explorer — a place in space and time that changed the historical progress of the world . |
| 17 | The post was offered as somewhat grudging recognition that he had been a signal success as leader of the first European colony in South America , a village called Santa Maria de la Antigua , on the Atlantic coast of the Isthmus . |
| 18 | A heading entitled ‘ New Actions ’ includes information on the first European Conference on Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution . |
| 19 | perhaps the major significance of the Council of Europe rests in the fact that it was the first European organisation with a political flavour . |
| 20 | Having conquered the UK personal computer market , Elonex Plc is the first European personal computer producer to strike an OEM deal with Univel Inc , the Novell Inc-Unix System Laboratories Inc venture . |
| 21 | Iberia reckons it is the first European carrier to offer flights from America to third countries . |
| 22 | The first European Design Automation Conference is scheduled for 7–10 Spetember at Hamburg 's Congress Center and is expected to attract 5,000 visitors : among those exhibiting are DEC , Harris , Sun , Cadence , Fujitsu and i-Logix . |
| 23 | As expected ( UX No 371 ) , Microvitec plc , based in Bradford , West Yorkshire , will be the first European company to ship an AlphaWindows terminal , the MCG3500 , in September . |
| 24 | A model for achieving a smoke free generation in Europe was proposed at the first European conference on tobacco in 1988 and was supported by the World Health Organisation and British Medical Association . |
| 25 | At the Montaigne until 18 July , Marie-Jo Lafontaine , one of the first European artists to explore the aesthetic potential of video imagery , is showing two groups of works polyptychs , monochromes and , of course , videos entitled ‘ We are all shadows ’ and ‘ Tout ange est terrible ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ I know it 's going to be a hard year and we 've still got a lot of work to do before the first European GP . |
| 27 | Visit Midland 's Sainte Marie among the Hurons , a large reconstruction of the first European settlement here . |
| 28 | The first European Formula 3000 Championship was staged in 1985 and changed its name to the F.I.A . |
| 29 | The view of Dmitri Obolensky , a leading authority on the Bogomils , is that they are the first European manifestation of a tradition which extends for over a thousand years from the teachings of Mani in third-century Mesopotamia to the Albigensian heresy , which appeared in southern France in the thirteenth century . |
| 30 | The first European motorways were built in Germany and Italy in the 1920s and 1930s ; the UK had active plans to follow them , but these were shelved on the outbreak of war , and the first British motorway was not built until 1958 ( the Preston bypass ) . |