Example sentences of "[prep] the first [noun pl] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Troops and tanks were sent in to restore order a week after the first demonstrations in Tirana . |
| 2 | Sister Margaret Murphy was one of the first nurses in Ulster to train in administering chemotherapy . |
| 3 | Sister Margaret Murphy was one of the first nurses in Ulster to train in administering chemotherapy . |
| 4 | Such was his reputation that 2,000 people attended his funeral in Russia and one of the first statues in St Paul 's Cathedral in London was not of a sovereign , statesman or saint — but a simple , teetotal , vegetarian traveller who , as the inscription notes : |
| 5 | He was one of the first sculptors in England to sign his work , and he had a thriving practice , several families , among them the Shireburns of Mitton , Lancashire , and the Brownlows of Belton , commissioning him more than once . |
| 6 | At this stage , in Britain as in other cattle-rearing countries , the cattle tended to be regional types rather than formal breeds , but by 1750 there was a recognisable regional distribution by coat colour and pattern in Britain — one of the first stages in breed development . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | One of the first pubs in Lancaster |
| 9 | The Royal Bank is one of the first organisations in Scotland to join the scheme . |
| 10 | Birmingham is one of the first universities in Europe to commit to the provision of a high speed data communications network using fibre technology . |
| 11 | He is working on the making of a crystal-wireless set ; he is one of the first men in Scotland to produce one at home . |
| 12 | In the castle grounds is the famous Hohenreid Clinic , one of the first centres in Europe to introduce programmes of ‘ secondary prevention ’ — changes in living patterns to save patients with one heart attack from having another . |
| 13 | Corfu , with its long sandy beaches , clear blue water and verdant mountain backdrop was one of the first places in Greece to be ‘ discovered ’ . |
| 14 | At the time of the first interviews in June 1990 the authorities were grappling with the devolution of services to the units and the district 's attempt to come to terms with the new role of purchaser . |
| 15 | A decade later a greater radical , Jeremy Bentham , suggested that the armed forces of all the European States should be reduced to low fixed levels , that all colonies should be freed ( one of the first recognitions in schemes of this kind of the importance which overseas possessions were now assuming in European politics ) and that a ‘ common court of judicature ’ should be set up to settle international disputes . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Garden contains one of the first rockeries in Britain , which houses the earliest garden gnomes in England . |
| 18 | She wrote to us about it , it was like the first days in Britain except the weather was much better . |
| 19 | She looked very tired : there were puffy smudges around her eyes , and bracketing her mouth were tiny lines like the first cracks in plaster . |
| 20 | It was held that the plaintiffs could succeed against the first defendants in contract , but in third party proceedings the first defendant 's action against the second defendants ( the manufacturers of the pails ) failed as the pails were merchantable under s14(2) . |
| 21 | It has been available since September 1987 , with the first examinations in summer 1989 . |
| 22 | In the first incidents in Zagreb seven soldiers were killed on July 2 . |
| 23 | It was among the first buildings in France to be listed as in need of help , even if none came for some fifteen years . |