Example sentences of "[prep] the first [noun pl] in [noun prp] " 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | One of the first pubs in Lancaster |
| 8 | The Royal Bank is one of the first organisations in Scotland to join the scheme . |
| 9 | Birmingham is one of the first universities in Europe to commit to the provision of a high speed data communications network using fibre technology . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Corfu , with its long sandy beaches , clear blue water and verdant mountain backdrop was one of the first places in Greece to be ‘ discovered ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Garden contains one of the first rockeries in Britain , which houses the earliest garden gnomes in England . |
| 15 | She wrote to us about it , it was like the first days in Britain except the weather was much better . |
| 16 | In the first incidents in Zagreb seven soldiers were killed on July 2 . |
| 17 | It was among the first buildings in France to be listed as in need of help , even if none came for some fifteen years . |