Example sentences of "[be] [num] [prep] the first [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NSPCC director Christopher Brown commented : ‘ The collapse of recent child abuse cases and our own experience with child witnesses leaves me in no doubt that urgent action in the form of new legislation must be one of the first concerns of a new government after the election . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Moreover , it would be one of the first schemes to implement the Government 's intention of bringing freight back on to the railways . |
| 4 | It may be one of the first times citizens anywhere have been allowed to vote on detailed defence-procurement questions . |
| 5 | It is hoped that Rambert will be one of the first companies to appear at the Festival Theatre when it opens next year , by which time Christopher Bruce will have taken over as artistic director of the company with which he used to be a leading dancer and choreographer . |
| 6 | Must be one of the first ones out . |
| 7 | He 'll be one of the first coloureds . |
| 8 | The Highlands and Islands ' possible eligibility for European Community Objective 1 funding status has raised hopes that the mooted Highland University could be one of the first projects to benefit . |
| 9 | Its appeal is obvious when shown to anyone in the target age group of ages 3 to 6 , and this should be one of the first programs a young user should see on a PC . |
| 10 | Tenderness and a tingling sensation may be one of the first signs of pregnancy and there will be an increase in the number of superficial veins you can see . |
| 11 | Coun Bill Dixon ( Lab ) , chairman of the housing committee , said last night he hopes Darlington can be one of the first towns in Britain to use this system . |
| 12 | There was therefore general agreement that the provision of a home should be one of the first tasks of the new organisation , and the matter was referred to the executive committee for urgent consideration . |
| 13 | Niki Harris , a ‘ Blonde Ambition ’ back-up singer , will reportedly be one of the first acts on Madonna 's Maverick record label , along with tour dancers Jose Gutierrez and Luis Camacho . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I have not , however , argued that criminal law should not be one of the first subjects studied . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Knowing that pickups are one of the first corners to be cut in budget guitars , I expected tameness if not lameness from the EX . |
| 19 | They are one of the first candidates for food irradiation , which will replace the chemicals that are used to protect them from pests during storage . |
| 20 | England had been one of the first countries to adopt Gothic designs but was one of the last to relinquish the style which passed into a Perpendicular phase unique to the British Isles . |
| 21 | As the surface of the primeval Earth cooled , carbon will have been one of the first elements to solidify . |
| 22 | The Bodrum peninsular , within sight of the Dodecanese islands of Greece , has been one of the first areas of Turkey to attract British tourists . |
| 23 | The USSR had been one of the first governments to recognise the state of Israel in 1948 , but Soviet support was thereafter thrown behind the Arab cause and behind the Egyptian war effort in particular . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But you see , Mrs Sutherland , he handled that and being one of the first non-whites at St Andrew 's School . |
| 26 | The latter colour usually derives from Asagi lineage , an Asagi being one of the first varieties to emerge from the Magoi ( black carp ) . |
| 27 | The Downs were one of the first areas of Sussex to be colonised by man and were probably quickly cleared of their original vegetation of scrubby woodland . |
| 28 | Some difficulties were experienced in the interpretation of SCOTVEC guidance documents , but this was to be expected as we were one of the first colleges to be involved in developing units for the HNC Pilot Scheme , and telephone communication with the SCOTVEC Curriculum Development Officers , who were most helpful , usually resolved them for us . |
| 29 | We were one of the first countries to ratify a new Council of Europe convention applying similar rules to all its Member States . |
| 30 | Well we were lucky in that we 've been able to do , have a , a very good relationship with a company called well known in the marine side and they put in forty five thousand pounds into er the scheme and promised that before Christmas and that was reading the paper one day in November the , the Robert the National Heritage Minister saying that they may be , may , if you 're lucky , going to put some money into sport and er so we contacted them and we were one of the first sports to get , had money doubled as they say in the bingo hall , so we er we now have ninety , ninety thousand pounds and which I wh has been distributed or will be distributed in the , in the following way so that 's how we 're gon na spend it and er these er , the administration represent we were basically overwhelmed with enquiries and s we took on a person in order to , to do it , the normal R Y A staff had already got enough on so we took on a girl called Sara who answers all the queries on the Year of Youth Hotline and erm we are also running the boat shows , the four or five N B L challenge which is the flagship event for our sponsors which is er I wo n't go into the , the details but is a , a talent fight , talent spotting event for under sixteen year olds around the country and it provided fleet of dinghies , the prize for which is a dinghy which is not , not a bad prize I think you 'll agree . |