Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] one [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Estée Lauder 's latest launch , Time-Zone , looks set to continue this preoccupation with dry skin as one of the first and most uncomfortable signs of an ageing complexion . |
| 2 | A notice of his death in the Bristol Journal supports the view that had he lived he would have made an even greater mark as an engineer : ‘ The public have to deplore in him the loss of one of the first mechanics in the kingdom , whose early genius brought to perfection that long-wished-for desideratum , the applying the powers of the fire-engine to rotular movements . ’ |
| 3 | Wireless World almost created civil war in the audio industry at about this time over its publication of one of the first RC-coupled amplifiers . |
| 4 | Excursions : Zell am See is a marvellous base for many lovely coach tours of the Baroque city of Salzburg with its ancient fortress ; the Grossglockner , a climb up one of the first major Alpine highways ( opened in 1935 ) to see Austria 's highest mountain , set amidst the everlasting snows of the Pasterze glacier ; the Krimml waterfalls ; Vienna : Kaprun : St. Wolfgang and Hallstatt in the Salzkammergut , and even Venice . |
| 5 | The monument , in Dzerzhinsky Square opposite the Lubyanka , the headquarters of the State Security Committee ( KGB ) , consisted simply of a granite boulder brought from the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea , site of one of the first camps for political prisoners established under Soviet rule . |
| 6 | Mark Twain ( 1835–1910 ) , author of one of the first popular travel books , in his car , 1907 |
| 7 | Robert Tisserand , a British practising aromatherapist , author and researcher , is the author of one of the first books in English on this hitherto rather elusive ( except in France ) therapy . |
| 8 | On 26 March the junta decided that the invasion would take place on one of the first three days in April . |
| 9 | The success of Drysgol Una the Limousin cow which emerged as champion of champions in the cattle section also provided an historical link with one of the first shows . |
| 10 | Boyd first came to Britain in the early Sixties as the organiser of one of the first package tours of blues and gospel musicians , featuring artists such as Muddy Waters and the Reverend Gary Davis . |
| 11 | It takes its name from one of the first cases in which such an injunction was granted , Mareva Compania Naviera S.A . |
| 12 | The last few years they had been more apart , until in 1969 they both rediscovered each other in one of the first Women 's Liberation groups in London . |
| 13 | Many years later , about 1943 , I introduced a distinguished Air Marshal to one of the first of the airborne glass-fibre radomes , a biggish thing intended to be bolted under a Lancaster bomber . |
| 14 | The bus stopped to pick up a passenger off one of the first terraced streets of the town . |
| 15 | And I went about two years ago on a gorgeous and sunny morning like one of the first of the season , you know , and the place was packed . |
| 16 | On the title page to one of the first volumes is written , ‘ Once Kitchen maid at Weston ’ . |
| 17 | This conclusion , very obvious to historians and anthropologists , was a dramatic and difficult point to put over in a society which rejected this possibility as one of the first principles . |