Example sentences of "one of [art] [num ord] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the first tasks Eva set herself was learning the local language , Shona . |
| 2 | It may be one of the first times citizens anywhere have been allowed to vote on detailed defence-procurement questions . |
| 3 | One of the first changes Laura made to Rhydoldog was to set up a telex room and offices at the end of the corridor on the ground floor . |
| 4 | ‘ One of the reasons for my downfall is that I am a rep for Taunton Cider , and one of the first things Yvonne told me was to keep off alcohol . ’ |
| 5 | One of the first things Colin and Sue Ross did when taking over Chetcombe was to refurbish the bedrooms in pretty Laura Ashley papers and fabrics , and to put them en suite . |
| 6 | There was a certain irony in the fact that one of the first things Baldwin told the King , on taking over from the decrepit MacDonald , was that he himself needed two months ' rest . |
| 7 | One of the first things Reagan did upon becoming president was to name Iran as an enemy of America and to ensure that no trade of any kind went on between the two countries , either directly or indirectly , imposing draconian penalties for anyone caught doing so . |
| 8 | One of the first things Tolkien did after his return to Oxford in 1925 was to set up an Icelandic reading group such as he had enjoyed during his last job , as Professor of English at Leeds . |
| 9 | The Father came out this morning to say that the hall could , one of the first things Father told him was that the hall could n't be insured , I mean it even staggered erm Doris , cos she 's not heard of that before , impressed , I do n't know what impressed is , but |
| 10 | The girl , who was reading English at Puddephat 's college — one of the first women students there , in fact — had been found dead in her room just before the end of the summer term . |
| 11 | She became one of the first women fellows in 1919 , when women were finally admitted . |
| 12 | A star item of a different kind was T.H. Gillespie 's Story of the Edinburgh Zoo , for it contains illustrations by Nancy Brackett , one of the first women elders at St.A 's & St.G 's . |
| 13 | One of the first lessons Pennett learned with Notts was what merciless mickey-takers cricketers are . |
| 14 | on one of the first days jostein flo came over to sheffield leeds was on the telly playing live and jostein and some other sheffield utd players was watching . |
| 15 | And one of the first foods grand-daughter Lisa gave her baby were Farley 's Rusks mixed up with a little baby milk . |
| 16 | One of the first dogs Steve rescued — four-year-old Tyler — had an eye poked out by a loutish owner wielding a screwdriver . |
| 17 | One of the first jobs Mr Kenneth Clarke , the new Home Secretary , is to decide on whether the task of gathering intelligence on Irish terrorism on the mainland should be given to MI5 rather than the Special Branch . |
| 18 | One of the last things Angela did was to have lunch with an old schoolfriend in the DTI who is responsible for the Huerter case , to make sure the DTI understood the impact of such assistance on Barton 's operations . ’ |
| 19 | On May Day I got a shock that was half pleasant , half sad : Joe had printed , over our pseudonym , one of the last poems Dana and I had composed , ‘ Winter 's End ’ : |