Example sentences of "one [prep] the first [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And one of the first acts of Pope Paul was to determine an early date for the opening of the new session — 29 September . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ] . |
| 5 | One of the first acts of the new Jatiya Sangsad was to elect Abdur Rahman Biswas of the BNP as Speaker . |
| 6 | One of the first acts of the new government was to announce an amnesty for all members of the old regime , except Najibullah . |
| 7 | One of the first acts of the coalition was to issue a challenge to the Prime Minister , John Major , to meet them . |
| 8 | Tourist receipts are volatile , for holidays are usually one of the first casualties of reduced family expenditure during a recession . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | One of the first actions of the new department was to begin consultations about local government reorganisation . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The disappearance of original traditional jewellery is one of the first signs of this unfortunate trend . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ The truth is , I 've broken one of the first rules of being a doctor . |
| 16 | He looked at her and she felt the colour rising in her cheeks at the knowledge that she was breaking one of the first rules of medicine , which was never to make promises you could n't possibly guarantee to keep . |
| 17 | Surprisingly , it was her grandmother , Ruth , Lady Fermoy , a lady-in-waiting to the Queen Mother , who sounded one of the first notes of caution . |
| 18 | NSPCC director Christopher Brown commented : ‘ The collapse of recent child abuse cases and our own experience with child witnesses leaves me in no doubt that urgent action in the form of new legislation must be one of the first concerns of a new government after the election . |
| 19 | Miss Armstrong said that when she had visited Wolsingham Comprehensive School , one of the first users of the Echo on CD-Rom , she had been kept on her toes by the fact that the pupils were well-informed about things she had said and done . |
| 20 | One of the first bits of advice he gave the First Church was , ‘ Bend the knee , but not unwisely . ’ |
| 21 | One of the first initiatives of the new regime was British Deaf Awareness Week ( BDA Week ) which was first mounted in the autumn of 1982 and has been organised by Bob Peckford annually ever since . |
| 22 | John Talbot was born in the same year as the Catholic Relief Act was passed and as a result was one of the first sons of Catholic gentlemen able to benefit from a solid Catholic education in Britain . |
| 23 | One of the first tasks of the new Chief Engineer , Bernard Browne , was to prepare a specification for a single-deck car and to oversee its building by East Lancashire Coach Builders , using the new technology , tried and proved successful on the Jubilee class of double-deckers . |
| 24 | One of the first tasks of the Habsburgs was to induce settlers to occupy the empty lands . |
| 25 | There was therefore general agreement that the provision of a home should be one of the first tasks of the new organisation , and the matter was referred to the executive committee for urgent consideration . |
| 26 | One of the first tasks of the day was for the girls to prepare freshly squeezed orange juice . |
| 27 | One of the first tasks of the group is to agree the criteria for site selection . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , Elogar , one of the first suppliers of Silicon Graphics Inc workstations to the Russian market , has ceased distribution of Wavefront software . |
| 29 | Annie now embarked on her remarkable public career , first as an associate of the atheist Charles Bradlaugh in the National Secular Society , then as a Fabian socialist and strike leader ( of the London matchgirls ) , and as one of the first members of the London School Board . |
| 30 | He was also one of the first members of the British Deaf Association when that was formed in 1890 . |