Example sentences of "the first serious " in BNC.
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| 1 | The university was the birthplace of the first serious protests against reports of increasing corruption in Mr Mugabe 's nine-year-old administration , when students clashed with riot police . |
| 2 | NEW YORK — The UN Secretary-General , Javier Perez de Cuellar , plans to send a 625-member peacekeeping force to Central America in the first serious test of the regional peace agreement signed in August . |
| 3 | SOUTH Africa 's State President , Mr FW de Klerk , yesterday suffered the first serious blow to his reputation as the great reformer by appearing to acquiesce in a cover-up of political murders carried out by state agencies , including the police . |
| 4 | THE first serious prospect of a cure for Aids , rather than a treatment which delays its effects , has emerged when no trace of the Aids virus was found during the post mortem on a patient who had been treated with the standard AZT drug and a bone marrow transplant . |
| 5 | The first serious attempt at a mechanistic account of behaviour was concerned with animal orientation . |
| 6 | Metrolink is seen by transport planners and environmentalists as the first serious attempt to squeeze non-essential car users out of Manchester city centre . |
| 7 | Peter Jacobsen despatched the first serious shot of the Masters . |
| 8 | In the 74th minute Furlong forced Cherry to make the first serious save of the match , and soon afterwards the goalkeeper had to turn a shot from Flynn round a post . |
| 9 | The invasion of the Torness site was therefore a landmark in British opposition to nuclear power , the first serious example of civil disobedience . |
| 10 | This was one of the first serious attempts to record the real lives of ordinary working people . |
| 11 | The first serious attempt was made as early as 1869 by a young Swiss doctor , Johannes Friedrich Miescher ( 1844–1894 ) , whose uncle was Wilhelm His ( 1831–1904 ) , a most unusual anatomist who maintained the forward-looking proposition ‘ La solution finale du problème du développement tissulaire se trouve dans la chimie ’ ( The final solution of the problem of development of organs is to be found in chemistry ) . |
| 12 | THE FIRST serious row over plans to redevelop London 's docklands seems certain to erupt soon . |
| 13 | Yet this is the first serious attempt to write about the revolution since the heyday of the early 1970s . |
| 14 | Although Harriot drew the first map of the Moon as seen through the telescope , or glass , Galileo 's series of observations were the first serious scientific investigation of the Moon 's surface . |
| 15 | It was in this period , very roughly between 1050 and 1150 , that we can most readily discern the revival of many independent cities ; and it was in the 1150s that the first serious challenge to their independence was mounted by the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa . |
| 16 | It was no doubt a disappointment to her that this , the first serious appraisement of her work , should have been so long delayed . |
| 17 | Young , currently the smartest culture , crit , and sidekick Caveney provide the first serious look at the new wave of American fiction — from the burnt-out brat packers to such authentic talents as Mary Gaitskill and Dennis Cooper |
| 18 | ‘ A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life ’ — Oscar Wilde . |
| 19 | Mercer , who will have the jaw wired to-morrow , said : ‘ It 's the first serious injury I 've had and I 've never felt as flat as this . |
| 20 | The first serious challenge to the Council came with the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community . |
| 21 | The first serious split occurred in 1925 with the formation of the National Fascists , a group of about 100 which broke away from the parent organization on the grounds that the BF were neither sufficiently anti-semitic nor fascist . |
| 22 | More ominous still were the first serious cracks in the Church 's spiritual hegemony . |
| 23 | Fortunately , Kathleen Kenyon took pottery a little more seriously than her mentor , and her Jewry Wall report ( 1948 ) is one of the first serious efforts to use it on a large scale to date the main sequences . |
| 24 | He considered it special because he recalled that ‘ the first serious look at the involvement of women in the media in Africa was initiated by WACC . ’ |
| 25 | Peter Thornton 's book is the first serious study of this vast and sometimes elusive subject and the fourth in a series of thematically non-sequential books from Weidenfeld and Nicolson initiated by Mr Thornton with his richly informative Authentic Décor : The Domestic Interior 1620–1920 . |
| 26 | The first serious attempt to facilitate the electronic transfer of bill of lading rights took place in 1986 and lasted less than one year . |
| 27 | They were resumed by the publication , jointly with H. C. Ralph Edwards , of Georgian Cabinet-Makers ( 1944 ) , the first serious recognition of furniture designers other than Thomas Chippendale , George Hepplewhite , and Thomas Sheraton [ qq.v . ] . |
| 28 | She undertook the first serious application of photography to science by making photograms of her extensive collection of algae . |
| 29 | This brought to an end a two-week crisis which had presented the first serious threat to communist rule in Albania since its establishment during the Second World War . |
| 30 | In the first serious clash since the coup , the army , now given a broader mandate to destroy the Marxist Sendero Luminoso ( " Shining Path " ) guerrillas , on April 28 moved into the Raucana shanty town on the outskirts of the capital Lima , run as a " model " Sendero development ; one person was killed and over a dozen more seriously wounded . |