Example sentences of "[prep] be one [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh yes , yes she does , but , that 's about all she 's got two cousins , that 's right , and one of them 's married and got children and she used to have in the north , the great friend Sylvia from school days and Sylvia would of been one of the first Anglican Deacons to be ordained as a , as a priest |
| 2 | The Polish Telecommunications Co , previously the Polish Post , Telegraph and Telecommunications Company until it was separated from the Post last January , looks like being one of the first to run IBM 's mainframe version of AIX on its E9000 Series mainframe . |
| 3 | ELONEX , a British supplier of computers , is about to be one of the first to deliver the latest and fastest 33MHz 80386SX microprocessor made by AMD . |
| 4 | The predators that preyed on the giants were even more spectacular , and by now the name of Tyrannosaurus is so well-known that it seems to be one of the first tongue-twisters mastered by small children . |
| 5 | The amount of rain that was falling made this sure to be one of the first places to flood , and though the cubs were growing fast , they were still too small to cope with flood conditions . |
| 6 | London-based HM Systems Plc which , with its Minstrel workstation was one of the first vendors to ship an 80486-based machine , says it also plans to be one of the first off the mark with Pentium machines . |
| 7 | UNICEF UK has organized a petition urging the British Government to be one of the first to ratify the Convention after it has been adopted . |
| 8 | The UK 's largest spider , the fen raft , is to be one of the first subjects of a species reintroduction programme by English Nature , the English successor body of the Nature Conservancy Council ( NCC ) . |
| 9 | Larry Parks is remembered for being one of the first to inform on his Communist friends before the committee , better remembered perhaps than he is for impersonating Al Jolson in two films which made him , at that time , a star . |
| 10 | Names like Heaven 17 and Scritti Politti crop up , the former favourably ( for being one of the first groups of their ilk to give black singers centre stage ) and the latter not . |
| 11 | If you 're gon na turn to stealing , then from then on it 's gon na be not the last resort any more , it 's gon na be one of the first resorts because it pays so much quicker . |