Example sentences of "the first direct " in BNC.
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| 1 | PowerGen , one of the two CEGB successor generating companies , has struck the first direct sale power contract before privatisation . |
| 2 | PowerGen , one of the two CEGB successor generating companies , has struck the first direct sale power contract before privatisation . |
| 3 | Winning three Westminster seats gave the DUP an important edge in the first direct elections to the European Parliament . |
| 4 | If they are ever opened , the Hunterston plants would be among the first direct reduction iron works in the Western world . |
| 5 | Nevertheless physicists have known about these effects for a long time ; indeed , measurements of splitting using radio frequency techniques ( with correspondingly low-energy photons ) provided the first direct evidence of non-spherical nuclei . |
| 6 | It was also the first direct aid ever paid to exploration companies in Ireland . |
| 7 | To our knowledge , these findings provide the first direct evidence that mesenchymal as well as epithelial cells are involved in T-cell development , and suggest that their involvement is stage-specific and likely to be dependent on short-range or contact-mediated interactions . |
| 8 | These observations provide the first direct evidence that the early stages of T-cell development depend on fibroblast products and suggest that this effect is unlikely to be mediated solely by soluble factors . |
| 9 | Recent palaeomagnetic results , suggesting that there are persistent preferred longitudinal paths for the virtual geomagnetic pole ( VGP ) during reversals , would provide the first direct evidence of the solid mantle 's influence on the core , although their statistical significance has been disputed . |
| 10 | The first direct manufacturer was Dell , which appeared on the scene in 1987 . |
| 11 | Since the first direct elections in 1979 , it has gradually increased its powers to supervise the Commission and to amend budgetary and legislative proposals . |
| 12 | Our results thus provide the first direct evidence that tamoxifen does not have antioestrogenic effects on bone in postmenopausal women and indicate a possible oestrogenic effect . |
| 13 | This report provides the first direct evidence for expression of P3A + variant mRNA in human thymus . |
| 14 | Blanche was happy as she walked out , confident at the end of the afternoon that she had at last found an explanation for Tatyana Nowak 's suicide , and the first direct link between a particular human being and the murder . |
| 15 | In 1884 he lodged a patent for the first direct cotton dye : that is , a dye requiring no mordant . |
| 16 | The project will be the first direct comparison of the effects of plague on two major cities in seventeenth-century Europe : Florence and London . |
| 17 | In the first direct contact between the MPLA government and the rebel UNITA movement since the summit at Gbadolite ( Zaïre ) in June 1989 [ see p. 36726 ] , high ranking delegations from each side met secretly in the Portuguese town of Evora on April 24-25 . |
| 18 | The first round of the Serbian local , parliamentary and presidential elections was held on Nov. 10 and 12 , 1989 , the first direct secret ballot in Serbia since before the Second World War . |
| 19 | The South Korean government 's policy of nordpolitik — the improvement of relations with communist regimes previously loyal to communist North Korea — pursued since 1988 , entered a new phase on June 4 when President Roh Tae Woo met President Mikhail Gorbachev for the first direct talks between a South Korean and Soviet head of state . |
| 20 | After the abortive attempt to meet in Malawi in June [ see p. 37561 ] , the first direct talks between the Frelimo government and the MNR rebels aimed at ending the 15-year civil war finally took place in Rome on July 8-10 . |
| 21 | This meeting was the first direct contact between the two countries since their acceptance of the August 1988 ceasefire agreement [ see pp. 35600 ; 36167 ; 36171 ] , although the Iraqi side had in April and May 1990 proposed the holding of a summit meeting in Mecca , Saudi Arabia . |
| 22 | In August 1989 the first direct flight by a German national carrier between East and West Germany ( from Frankfurt/Main to Leipzig ) was made after the Four Powers decided in July to allow the West German airline Lufthansa to make direct commercial flights on a trial basis . |
| 23 | As widely expected , Lech Walesa , the leader of the Solidarity trade union and the country 's most prominent opposition figure in the 1980s , gained a majority of the vote in the first direct presidential elections held in Poland , on Nov. 25 . |
| 24 | In July 1990 , the then New Zealand Minister for Tourism and Disarmament and Arms Control , Fran Wilde , visited Fiji in the first direct contact between the two countries since the coups of 1987 . |
| 25 | In the first direct move against members of Ershad 's Cabinet , former Home Minister Maj.-Gen. ( retd ) Mahmudul Hasan was arrested in Dhaka on Dec. 11 whilst allegedly planning to organize a pro-Ershad rally . |
| 26 | The first direct chartered flight between the two countries was made when a North Korean airliner flew from Nagoya to Pyongyang on May 17 . |
| 27 | Under the terms of the deal , which marked the first direct trading contact between the two Korean states since the Korean War of 1950-53 , the North would supply 30,000 tonnes of anthracite and 11,000 tonnes of cement in exchange for the rice . |
| 28 | In the first direct elections to Hong Kong 's parliament , the Legislative Council ( Legco ) , held on Sept. 15 , liberal democratic candidates won a sweeping victory , despite a turnout of only 39 per cent . |
| 29 | The first direct flight bringing Soviet Jewish immigrants to Israel arrived in Tel Aviv on Nov. 5 , following an agreement signed in October by the Jewish Agency and by the Soviet and Israeli airlines , respectively Aeroflot and El Al . |
| 30 | Urban Council ( Urbco ) elections were held in May 1991 [ see p. 38192 ] ; the first direct elections to the Legco were held on Sept. 15 [ see p. 38436 ] . |