Example sentences of "[conj] one [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Take the time at the gallery to see what a communications satellite looks like at close quarters , or one of the first budget 405-line TV sets sold by Pye in 1938 . |
| 2 | This is a reminder that one of the first things a Kinnock government is pledged to do is sign the European Commission 's social charter , rejected by Mr Major at the Maastricht summit . |
| 3 | It is significant that one of the first major published attacks on Indirect Rule was written by a Northern Nigeria DO , Walter Crocker , whose animus against the system clearly arose not from disagreement with its basic principles but from the fact that DOs were allowed so little responsibility within it . |
| 4 | ‘ I am glad that one of the first things |
| 5 | It is apt that one of the first two recordings made by Kurt Masur in his new role as Music Director of the New York Philharmonic should be of the New World Symphony , particularly when it comes in ample time to celebrate the centenary of the first performance of that favourite work by this very orchestra in December 1893 . |
| 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 | It says that it is the counsel of the witan determined upon as soon as Cnut and his witan established peace and friendship between Danes and English , and that one of the first things the witan decided was that they would zealously observe Edgar 's law and " investigate further at leisure what was necessary for the nation , as best they could " . |
| 8 | The claim is that one of the first to mark out John Smith 's future political career was the Labour leader , Hugh Gaitskell , who was in his time characterised and vilified as being right-wing . |
| 9 | Hoping to get the answer that one of the first things we did no rising was to wash , I was a little disconcerted when my same little lady piped up ‘ weight ourselves ’ . |
| 10 | This was the first poem Dana showed me , and one of the first I reworked with him . |
| 11 | Building a tractor from scratch is largely a process of jumping endless technical hurdles , and one of the first problems was fitting the clutch . |
| 12 | It has been estimated that two-thirds of all undiscovered oil and gas are to be found offshore and one of the first acts of the Reagan administration was to accelerate the process of offshore leasing in the Gulf areas , the California coast and also the North Atlantic coast . |
| 13 | But many archbishops were delighted by the excuse to go on pilgrimage to Rome ; and one of the first to benefit from the custom was Sigeric , archbishop of Canterbury ( 990 — 4 ) , who has left us a kind of diary of his visit — first of the churches in Rome which a pilgrim had especially to visit and to pray in , and then of the stages on his long journey back to Canterbury . |
| 14 | Bernie Grant , representing Tottenham in the borough of Haringey and one of the first black MPs , was unequivocal and unambiguous in his opposition from the very start . |
| 15 | Vicente Gomes da Silva , born on 12 March 1827 , was the first commercial photographer in Madeira and one of the first in Portugal . |
| 16 | Berry explained : ‘ We got into base camp with the group of trekkers on May 8 and one of the first people I ran into was Krishchaty , just by chance . |
| 17 | Just at this time ( 1956 ) David Marsh came to work with me and one of the first things he said was ‘ Why do n't you build a proper tensile testing machine ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 19 | Graham Tregidon became WRU president at the annual general meeting in June and one of the first things he did was go into print in the next issue of the union 's newsletter to plead unity . |
| 20 | This was Bogart 's seventeenth film ( The Petrified Forest had been his eleventh ) and one of the first in which he gave some indication of his range . |
| 21 | And one of the first acts of Pope Paul was to determine an early date for the opening of the new session — 29 September . |
| 22 | Such was his reputation that 2,000 people attended his funeral in Russia and one of the first statues in St Paul 's Cathedral in London was not of a sovereign , statesman or saint — but a simple , teetotal , vegetarian traveller who , as the inscription notes : |
| 23 | Hadlee 's victim that day was Sanjay Manjrekar , a delighted onlooker this time and one of the first to congratulate the ‘ Haryana Hurricane ’ on his fine achievement . |
| 24 | Enter Lucignano and one of the first things to immediately impress the first-time visitor is the peace and quiet of the town 's narrow streets and alleyways . |
| 25 | The island supports a lighthouse , unmanned since the 1930s , and one of the first automatic stations in the Trinity House Group . |
| 26 | And one of the first birds we saw ? |
| 27 | At the end of the war Lloyd George promised ‘ homes fit for heroes ’ , and one of the first pieces of postwar legislation was a Housing Act that provided government subsidies to local authorities to build houses for the working classes . |
| 28 | And one of the first foods grand-daughter Lisa gave her baby were Farley 's Rusks mixed up with a little baby milk . |
| 29 | The term itself only began to be generally used in the early nineteenth century in Western Europe , and one of the first systematic discussions is to be found in the book by Lorenz von Stein , where the social movement is portrayed as a struggle for greater social independence culminating in the class struggle of the proletariat . |
| 30 | Going down with my dad who had been president of the lifeboat here for about fifty years , to meet the lifeboat as come in with survivors , I was just a wee boy at the time but I remember the Icelandic trawler , the Geyser and one of the first to be put ashore off the lifeboat that night , was a wee lassie , and she came across the pier and she came to me , because I was the only kid down there that night . |