Example sentences of "[prep] the very first [prep] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Against this background this school became one of the very first to be invited to generate and submit a proposal document to the Coordinating Team .
2 When Hullmandel published his treatise The Art of Drawing on Stone in 1824 , the possibilities of lithography were better advertised ( although Hullmandel was careful not to describe the actual printing process , so that artists would have to come to him for that service ) , and Lear was one of the very first to be attracted to the technique .
3 One of the very first of them was Rossini 's Elisabetta Regina d'Inghilterra , which revolves around a real enough subject : the execution of what might now be called political prisoners .
4 Strategic decisions urgently need to be taken since , as I pointed out in the very first of my articles for NSS in January 1991 , the British economy is now in grave peril .
5 We want you to be among the very first in Britain to benefit from these developments and to enjoy them !
6 He has the distinction of being among the very first in the country to ‘ do Koi properly ’ , and his 25 years ' experience were passed on to Ken at meetings of the local section of the BKKS .
  Next page