Example sentences of "[is] the first major [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | McDonald 's is the first major company in the fast food sector to be approved by the Hotel & Catering Training Company ( HCTC ) to operate NVQs . |
| 3 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 4 | It is the first major craft exhibition that South East Arts , your regional arts association , has organized . |
| 5 | Lawson : Ernst & Young is the first major accountancy firm to become an authorised implementor of Lawson Software 's financial and distribution applications . |
| 6 | The role is the first major link between Marketing and Production , being involved at the earliest possible stages of transforming customer needs and wants into practical possibilities . |
| 7 | It is the first major development at the school since it first opened in 1957 . |
| 8 | Event organiser Dave Sargeant said : ‘ This is the first major fundraising event on our calendar in what we hope will be a bumper year . |
| 9 | But this is the first major study devoted to them , and the Chancery documents have provided useful supplementary material , including letters from performers and copies of contracts . |
| 10 | But this is the first major announcement of aid for the drug industry , apart from £9 million for biotechnology research last month . |
| 11 | They do so at their peril , which is the first major tenet of this exciting thriller , which resurrects some favourite old ploys not least the shower curtain , the body in a cupboard , and the inability to escape . |
| 12 | Univel , a joint venture of Novell and Unix System Labs , is the first major attempt to get Unix into volume distribution and will be piggybacking on Novell resellers . |
| 13 | I I think erm a a as you 've kindly called me er I think I will try and make this debate a little more lively erm but I 'm not sure about being controversial er because here I was last week , I was making a speech about the significance of er the deregulation of contracting out bill and er I said then that the bill is so important because it is the first major attempt by government to slay the red tape dragon . |
| 14 | Project manager , Rob Bolt said : ‘ This is the first major rebuilding contract undertaken by a HAT and is a very different market for us , as construction managers . ’ |
| 15 | The Personal Video System is the first major product developed for business customers through a collaboration of AT&T Global Business Communications Systems , NCR and AT&T Microelectronics and the first to use the AT&T AVP 4000 video compression chip set , which is based on the Px64 standards for video and audio compression . |
| 16 | And for us to go forward that is the first major thing we need to do and I 'm appealing today that if people can give us two hours on Saturday morning or a Friday afternoon , we need people , we do n't need two people on a street corner cos we 've done it and it is it we do n't get the effect we want , because most people walk past us . |
| 17 | It is the first major outbreak for many years . |
| 18 | The Horwich donation is the first major gift following the unveiling of the MCA 's new building plan , designed by Josef Paul Kleihues . |
| 19 | It 's the first major plastic slope in the country , and is on the site of ski area that used to offer reliable snowcover until the greenhouse effect got to work . |
| 20 | It 's the first major project . |