Example sentences of "one [prep] the first [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a meaty breed , similar to the Limousin , and was one of the first of the declining breeds to be conserved by the government 20 years ago . |
| 2 | It could be one of the first of the man-made units of goodness to be added to the existing store already laid up by the evolutionary process . |
| 3 | Sonia was one of the first of the black running stars and had run at all the major meetings and been on television . |
| 4 | Eusthenopteron , one of the first of the crossopterygii to grow stumpy fins , which later became legs . |
| 5 | Many years later , about 1943 , I introduced a distinguished Air Marshal to one of the first of the airborne glass-fibre radomes , a biggish thing intended to be bolted under a Lancaster bomber . |
| 6 | Her number BGK009059 said that she was one of the first of the Bergen K line , the Kobolds that plied the spaceways of the solar system , taking this here and that there , for nearly fifty years . |
| 7 | Sources say SunPics was ‘ dragged kicking and screaming ’ into the brand new Sun Microsystems Inc and Adobe Computer Systems Inc alliance , ( UX No 404 ) , orchestrated by SunSoft Inc president Ed Zander , one of the first of the Sun mafia to come to grips with the slippery notion of standards — prodded no doubt by the coming onslaught of Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT . |
| 8 | In the expansion of academic legal scholarship that has taken place in the past 20 years family law was one of the first of the traditional areas of study to be ‘ broadened ’ . |
| 9 | And I went about two years ago on a gorgeous and sunny morning like one of the first of the season , you know , and the place was packed . |
| 10 | She was one of the first of the British geographers whose interests covered the whole range of the field , and this breadth is reflected in her many writings . |
| 11 | Matisse , who was one of the first of the painters of his generation to appreciate the true genius of Cézanne , had been working under his influence since 1899 , the year in which he bought Cézanne 's Trois Baigneuses from Vollard , choosing it in preference to an Arlésienne by Van Gogh , and in the figure pieces that lead up to the Bonheur , the influence of Cézanne is immediately obvious . |
| 12 | Aye he was one of the first of the crew . |
| 13 | Quality of finish was n't too good at many points on our test tractor , either , but we have to assume it was largely because our machine was one of the first off the production line . |
| 14 | London-based HM Systems Plc which , with its Minstrel workstation was one of the first vendors to ship an 80486-based machine , says it also plans to be one of the first off the mark with Pentium machines . |
| 15 | Avon ambulance chief Barry Richardson , one of the first on the scene , said : ‘ It was carnage . |
| 16 | One of the first on the scene to treat him at Bath was full back Jon Webb , an orthopaedic surgeon . |
| 17 | Then I have a '60 Strat , one of the first with the rosewood necks , and it has this amazing sound . |
| 18 | I mean it , it no , he was one of the first with the shrewd sort of business sense |
| 19 | His conviction ends the 3.5-year investigation into Vernon Savings , one of the first by the federal bank-fraud taskforce . |
| 20 | Consideration of the Commission 's proposal for the telematics programme by both the European Parliament and the advisory bodies to the Research Council is going on apace and it is hoped that this programme will be one of the first from the third Framework programme to be adopted in 1991 . |
| 21 | He was one of the first in the battered political hierarchy to head for Moscow voluntarily for negotiations with Brezhnev . |
| 22 | OPPOSITE LEFT : Days Mill , in Nailsworth , was one of the first in the area to have power looms installed in a specially built loom shed . |
| 23 | The girl was one of the first in the country to use new powers granted to minors under the Children 's Act to apply to the courts for permission to live where they wanted to . |
| 24 | Gillard even considers that the hospital was in the vanguard of therapeutic optimism in the 1950s , ‘ being one of the first in the country to pull down the perimeter wall and unlock the wards , encouraging patients to mix freely ’ . |
| 25 | MERSEYSIDE solicitors Goldsmith Williams is one of the first in the country to gain BS5750 quality assurance status . |