Example sentences of "one [prep] the first [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the first systems to which the Schrödinger equation was applied was the simplest atom , hydrogen . |
| 2 | Along with Argentina , Chile was one of the first countries in Latin America to experience union organisation and by 1970 , the labour movement had emerged as a strong and ideologically independent organisation . |
| 3 | It takes its name from one of the first cases in which such an injunction was granted , Mareva Compania Naviera S.A . |
| 4 | The style of the building is that of the 14th century , and it holds many monuments to previous rectors and the Bethell family , including a reference to Christopher Bethell who was one of the first whites to be killed in the Mafeking riots in July 1884 . |
| 5 | Seventeen years later , then Flight Lieutenant Reif , he flew as one of the first navigators in 2 Squadron Canberras when that unit deployed to South Vietnam in April 1967 . |
| 6 | Sony Corp appointed Michael Schulhof , now vice-chairman of Sony USA Inc , to the post of president and chief executive of its US unit , which will be renamed Sony Corp of America : Schulhof joined Sony in 1974 after a mainly academic career as a physicist and worked on the development of the compact disk ; in 1989 , he became one of the first Americans to be appointed to the board of a major Japanese company . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | One of the first pubs in Lancaster |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It has been estimated that two-thirds of all undiscovered oil and gas are to be found offshore and one of the first acts of the Reagan administration was to accelerate the process of offshore leasing in the Gulf areas , the California coast and also the North Atlantic coast . |
| 11 | And one of the first acts of Pope Paul was to determine an early date for the opening of the new session — 29 September . |
| 12 | The Labour government of 74–79 had made it compulsory for local education authorities to reorganise secondary schools along comprehensive lines in the 1976 Education Act , but one of the first acts of the Conservative government of 1979 was to repeal this . |
| 13 | One of the first acts of the new Moldavian Supreme Soviet , which had convened on April 16 , had been to adopt on April 27 as the republic 's official flag the red , yellow and blue tricolour of Romania , in place of the variation on the Soviet red flag previously in use [ see pp. 37257-58 ] . |
| 14 | One of the first acts of the new Jatiya Sangsad was to elect Abdur Rahman Biswas of the BNP as Speaker . |
| 15 | One of the first acts of the new government was to announce an amnesty for all members of the old regime , except Najibullah . |
| 16 | One of the first acts of the coalition was to issue a challenge to the Prime Minister , John Major , to meet them . |
| 17 | In 1988 , distribution was one of the first Departments in C&P to gain ISO 9000 accreditation . |
| 18 | I remember going on one of the first ones with the boss . |
| 19 | I was one of the first ones to be flown out and then there was a postal hold-up so I had real trouble finding out what was going on , and also trying to organise to have him brought home . |
| 20 | Was , your room one of the first ones to be done Heather ? |
| 21 | Knowing that pickups are one of the first corners to be cut in budget guitars , I expected tameness if not lameness from the EX . |
| 22 | One of the first faces on screen will be Chris Tarrant , already a familiar presenter . |
| 23 | Bunyan was now one of the first Nonconformists to be arrested for preaching illegally . |
| 24 | Tourist receipts are volatile , for holidays are usually one of the first casualties of reduced family expenditure during a recession . |
| 25 | One of the first casualties of the ban was a song recorded by an Irish pop group with lyrics claiming that the " Guildford 4 " were innocent . |
| 26 | One of the first actions of the new department was to begin consultations about local government reorganisation . |
| 27 | Now one of the first fruits of the partnership agreement with the Germans , is a successful initiative on joint training and education of officers and shop stewards funded from the E C fourth programme . |
| 28 | The disappearance of original traditional jewellery is one of the first signs of this unfortunate trend . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | One of the first rules of house and hall parties had been to scout the building for dark corners that might make useful retiring-places if the evening went well — preference was given to anywhere that had a lock on the inside . |