Example sentences of "one [prep] the first [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It takes its name from one of the first cases in which such an injunction was granted , Mareva Compania Naviera S.A . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | One of the first pubs in Lancaster |
| 6 | In 1988 , distribution was one of the first Departments in C&P to gain ISO 9000 accreditation . |
| 7 | Just turned forty , Frank is married to his job , his wife has left him for a colleague , and when he encounters the sexually predatory Helen ( Ellen Barkin ) he breaks one of the first rules in the book by falling for a suspect . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Under most circumstances this is one of the first stages in the preparation of material for pipette analysis . |
| 11 | One of the first initiatives in the programme was a workshop on ‘ Communication for Development ’ , organised in Angola in July this year for Portuguese-speaking countries . |
| 12 | One of the first houses in the goldfields was built to welcome them and the two children ; the roof was not on by the time they arrived but many miners joined in helping to complete it , the sight of two young Englishwoman being a delightful rarity . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Sister Margaret Murphy was one of the first nurses in Ulster to train in administering chemotherapy . |
| 15 | Sister Margaret Murphy was one of the first nurses in Ulster to train in administering chemotherapy . |
| 16 | Perhaps I was one of the first women in the entire province of Parma to be ‘ liberated ’ in that sense . |
| 17 | His name was Dave Brown and he eventually went on to establish one of the first clubs in the country to be licensed as an openly gay establishment . |
| 18 | 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 : |
| 19 | The radical simplification of forms which characterizes the painting can be accounted for by the fact that this was one of the first canvases in which Braque attempted to work from memory . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Corfu , with its long sandy beaches , clear blue water and verdant mountain backdrop was one of the first places in Greece to be ‘ discovered ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | One of the first centres in the country designed specifically to help child abuse victims is about to open . |
| 24 | Birmingham is one of the first universities in Europe to commit to the provision of a high speed data communications network using fibre technology . |
| 25 | Garden contains one of the first rockeries in Britain , which houses the earliest garden gnomes in England . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The Royal Bank is one of the first organisations in Scotland to join the scheme . |
| 28 | All very innocent , if a little unfortunate in timing , unless one is a Daily Mirror journalist prepared to fire one of the first shots in the election campaign and print the picture pointing out Mr Major 's unfortunate choice of venue . |
| 29 | 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 . |