Example sentences of "one [prep] [art] first [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its appeal is obvious when shown to anyone in the target age group of ages 3 to 6 , and this should be one of the first programs a young user should see on a PC . |
| 2 | This is a reminder that one of the first things a Kinnock government is pledged to do is sign the European Commission 's social charter , rejected by Mr Major at the Maastricht summit . |
| 3 | To women , entering the trade without undergoing any of the initiation rites , excluded from the union , the whole business of fat and lean — one of the first things a boy apprentice would learn about — can have meant little . |
| 4 | For one of the first things the maltster looked for was just this : uniformity of seed in the samples that the farmer showed to him . |
| 5 | One of the first things the children notice about the stone is his odd logic . |
| 6 | Naturally , one of the first things the Fields did on arrival at Lartington Hall was to start their own pack of hounds . |
| 7 | It says that it is the counsel of the witan determined upon as soon as Cnut and his witan established peace and friendship between Danes and English , and that one of the first things the witan decided was that they would zealously observe Edgar 's law and " investigate further at leisure what was necessary for the nation , as best they could " . |
| 8 | One of the first things an infant elephant has to discover is how to use its trunk . |
| 9 | Above all , IR spectrometers are almost universally available , and so IR spectroscopy is one of the first techniques the inorganic chemist will call upon when studying a new sample . |