Example sentences of "of the first [noun pl] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Under most circumstances this is one of the first stages in the preparation of material for pipette analysis . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | The foundation of the first colonies in the New World , on the east coast . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Perhaps I was one of the first women in the entire province of Parma to be ‘ liberated ’ in that sense . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | One of the first centres in the country designed specifically to help child abuse victims is about to open . |