Example sentences of "[verb] one [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Garden contains one of the first rockeries in Britain , which houses the earliest garden gnomes in England . |
| 3 | Piaget 's work is important because it provided one of the first developmental accounts of the emergence of logical thought . |
| 4 | In the autumn of 1982 John was transferred from Coningsby to become Commanding Officer at Wildenrath in West Germany , and so the Corsair was moved from Coningsby to Duxford , becoming one of the first privately-owned warbirds to be based there . |
| 5 | In the SAS he undoubtedly learned rather more than that , including the survival skills which he has had to draw on so often in expeditions which have not always gone according to plan.He has been a full-time explorer since he was 25 and ‘ like everybody else , in every career , you do n't retire until you have to , ’ he says.His CV reads like a non-stop Boys Own adventure — shooting up the White Nile in a hovercraft , parachuting on to the Jostedalsbre Glacier and negotiating more than 4,000 miles of Canadian and Alaskan rivers.Between 1979 and 1982 , he circumnavigated the world on the Transglobe Expedition , becoming one of the first men ever to reach both the North and South Poles overland . |
| 6 | Approval was granted upon inspection on the 19th March 1888 and the line continued to operate until 1953 ; by that time it was owned by the National Coal Board , thus becoming one of the first nationalised railways . |
| 7 | A close working relationship with John Wilkinson , the club chairman , developed over the last five years , and Ashcroft 's position was considered one of the First Division 's safest . |
| 8 | In contrast to the comments ( above ) on pavements with four pairs of interlaced squares , this mosaic can be considered one of the first examples of a distinctive saltire arrangement : an arrangement which has pelta-urns ( with bases facing away from the central roundel ) on each arm . |
| 9 | Percivall , in his 1834 introductory lecture , says one of the first operations performed by Vial at the College was the excision of two redundant or accessory feet which grew from the fetlocks of the forelegs of a foal . |
| 10 | My father was the head waiter at The Savoy , my mother opened one of the first milk bars in Soho , and my grandmother was a vegetable cook at London 's Park Lane Hotel . |
| 11 | She opened one of the first child welfare clinics in the country , and ran a working men 's club . |
| 12 | The extra stress that it will have caused to forest trees in Britain and the continent will provide one of the first tests of his new ideas . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | By the middle of the thirteenth-century Milan 's ruling commune had lost its power , and the city had become one of the first to fall to the signori , the city lords . |
| 15 | De La Rue , the security printing and payments systems group , has become one of the first companies to announce results under FRS 3 . |
| 16 | Billy Hamilton , who retired from Rentokil several years ago , [ formerly working with Pest Control in Belfast and still collecting debts for the company ] has become one of the first people in Northern Ireland to be presented with a commemorative medal from the Soviet authorities . |
| 17 | Paul has become one of the first fans to have his room decorated with the wallpaper . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | At about the same time , i.e. the end of the nineteenth century , Charles Booth ( 1840–1916 ) was conducting one of the first major social surveys , which he published between 1891 and 1903 in seventeen volumes entitled Life and Labour of the People in London . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He became one of the first football commentators on radio , copying the urgent , excitable American style of the ‘ gee-whizzers ’ , earning himself the nickname of ‘ By Jove ’ Allison on the way . |
| 22 | Susan , Anne 's daughter by Didier , became one of the first geniuses of the form , moulding her night fantasies into unforgettably affecting tapestries of emotion and narrative . |
| 23 | In joining John Dickinson at Croxley Mills in 1931 , Grant became one of the first qualified scientists to be employed by the paper industry and his contributions and experience proved invaluable to him throughout his subsequent career . |
| 24 | He went to a qualified medical practitioner for his first experience in 1963 and , according to himself , became one of the first people in the country to take the drug . |
| 25 | George Lansbury himself became one of the first reforming Poor Law Guardians in East London in the 1890s , and the social legislation of the Liberals , including the state Old Age Pension introduced in 1908 , was a direct response to the rising political influence of the labour movement . |
| 26 | Guided by the Chief Officer , the county became one of the first to introduce comprehensive schools of a new style , as well as fresh methods of teaching in its primary schools , and an immense explosion of organized music teaching all over the county . |
| 27 | Sony Corp appointed Michael Schulhof , now vice-chairman of Sony USA Inc , to the post of president and chief executive of its US unit , which will be renamed Sony Corp of America : Schulhof joined Sony in 1974 after a mainly academic career as a physicist and worked on the development of the compact disk ; in 1989 , he became one of the first Americans to be appointed to the board of a major Japanese company . |
| 28 | He became one of the first Conceptual artists and among the first to draw his imagery from television , movies , newspapers and advertising . |
| 29 | Her parents have done well ; her father became one of the first Afro-Caribbean councillors in inner London . |
| 30 | Alanson became one of the first three surgeons appointed to the Liverpool dispensary in 1778 . |