Example sentences of "represent the first [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Channel Tunnel construction is moving rapidly from the plan to the site and the new terminal represents the first definite move to link the region with the continent . |
| 2 | Narin 's seminal Report to the Foundation , carried out by Computer Horizons Inc. on data from the Science Citation Index , represents the first major effort by any country 's scientific policy-makers , to use bibliometric indicators to forecast and plan research expenditure on a national scale , although Price had , in 1969 , related the size of a country 's scientific literature to its Gross National Product ( GNP ) . |
| 3 | The recommendation from the evaluation studies that ‘ the traffic restraint concept as a principle of planning should be continued ’ represents the first official adoption in German planning of traffic restraint . |
| 4 | This new strain ( KT1026 ) has been satisfactorily evaluated in Australia and represents the first commercial release of a genetically engineered microorganism for biocontrol . |
| 5 | Jackson 's next work , An Essay on Bread ( 1758 ) , defended bakers and millers against malpractice charges levelled by Peter Markham [ q.v. ] and Joseph Manning , and it represents the first reliable book on the chemical detection of food adulteration . |
| 6 | The SPAR system seems to represent the first explicit attempt to work out solutions to all four problems . |
| 7 | When this came it represented the first archaeological exploration ever conducted , a landmark in man 's self-consciousness . |
| 8 | The bill represented the first major overhaul of US energy policy since the 1970s . |
| 9 | Bloomfield 's publication of Language ( Bloomfield , 1933 ) represented the first major statement to combine both the theory and practice of linguistic analysis . |
| 10 | In the United States , however , the rise in import penetration , all of which occurred in the 1960s , represented the first serious incursion this century by imported manufactured goods . |
| 11 | The talks represented the first significant move towards peace since the announcement in February 1988 of the withdrawal of Soviet troops which was completed in February 1989 [ see pp. 35785 ; 35970-71 ; 36448-49 ] . |
| 12 | The preliminary talks , which had begun in November , represented the first formal contact between the governments of the two countries after more than four decades of implacable hostility . |
| 13 | Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act 1934 represented the first legislative attempt in the US to curb some of the dangers associated with insider trading . |
| 14 | Prior further claims that union support for such an industrial policy was a central plank of the social contract , which therefore ‘ represented the first British attempt within a framework of parliamentary democracy to build in a process of extra-parliamentary mobilisation around the policies of a Labour government ’ ( ibid. , p. 4 ) . |
| 15 | Not only do they represent the first substantial draft of much of the material that was to be more fully worked out there . |