Example sentences of "[prep] one [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wireless World almost created civil war in the audio industry at about this time over its publication of one of the first RC-coupled amplifiers . |
| 2 | Boyd first came to Britain in the early Sixties as the organiser of one of the first package tours of blues and gospel musicians , featuring artists such as Muddy Waters and the Reverend Gary Davis . |
| 3 | Mark Twain ( 1835–1910 ) , author of one of the first popular travel books , in his car , 1907 |
| 4 | Robert Tisserand , a British practising aromatherapist , author and researcher , is the author of one of the first books in English on this hitherto rather elusive ( except in France ) therapy . |
| 5 | Exploration interest was boosted in 1979 by the results of one of the first deep wells drilled east of the Appalachian Front in West Virginia ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | The Minister will be well aware of one of the first campaigns that Strathclyde regional council ever mounted . |
| 8 | The monument , in Dzerzhinsky Square opposite the Lubyanka , the headquarters of the State Security Committee ( KGB ) , consisted simply of a granite boulder brought from the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea , site of one of the first camps for political prisoners established under Soviet rule . |
| 9 | And I went about two years ago on a gorgeous and sunny morning like one of the first of the season , you know , and the place was packed . |
| 10 | A Swansea man was swept two miles up the River Severn behind one of the first big bores of the autumn as he clung to the stern of a friend 's canoe . |
| 11 | Excursions : Zell am See is a marvellous base for many lovely coach tours of the Baroque city of Salzburg with its ancient fortress ; the Grossglockner , a climb up one of the first major Alpine highways ( opened in 1935 ) to see Austria 's highest mountain , set amidst the everlasting snows of the Pasterze glacier ; the Krimml waterfalls ; Vienna : Kaprun : St. Wolfgang and Hallstatt in the Salzkammergut , and even Venice . |
| 12 | The success of Drysgol Una the Limousin cow which emerged as champion of champions in the cattle section also provided an historical link with one of the first shows . |
| 13 | The canton of Aargau itself earned the title of " the culture state " as early as the mid-nineteenth century , through its wise development of education ( including one of the first teacher training colleges ) and the arts , a tradition which has obviously continued , judging by the numerous advertisements for concerts , and particularly the Fine Arts Museum in the Rathausplatz . |
| 14 | At first Johnson was contrite and ashamed , ‘ I am heart-broken , ’ he said in one of the first press reports ‘ I am a disgrace to myself and my country . |
| 15 | Typically , in one of the first debates about inner cities of the third Thatcher term , Nicholas Ridley , then Secretary of State for the Environment , justified his aggressively business led strategy , introducing more Urban Development Corporations : |
| 16 | The last few years they had been more apart , until in 1969 they both rediscovered each other in one of the first Women 's Liberation groups in London . |
| 17 | In one of the first of these surveys ( of the fourth and fifth year curriculum in secondary schools ) in 1979 , the HMI noted that secondary teachers made wide use of ‘ heavily directed teaching , a preponderance of dictated or copied notes , and emphasis on the giving and recall of information , with little room or time for enquiry or explanation of applications ’ . |
| 18 | And now he 's back in one of the first ‘ recession vignette ’ commercials , selling all the directors ' company cars to maintain the work force 's wages . |
| 19 | In one of the first cases he had taken , in 1923 , it must have been , the year after he came back — Fantina was still a baby — a widow had accused her neighbour of killing her cow out of spite . |
| 20 | In one of the first quantitative studies of what he terms the communication explosion , Cherry ( 1978 ) argues that global telecommunications are based on a ‘ tripod skeleton ’ of three main circuits , transatlantic/Europe , Far East/Europe , and North/South America . |
| 21 | In 1914 Pourpe enlisted and was killed in one of the first air battles . |
| 22 | It takes its name from one of the first cases in which such an injunction was granted , Mareva Compania Naviera S.A . |
| 23 | If we believe that integrity is a third and independent ideal , at least when people disagree about one of the first two , then we may well think that fairness or justice must sometimes be sacrificed to integrity . |
| 24 | which she did which is so bad erm I mean really , she did , about one of the first films she did , not , you know before Total Recall |
| 25 | The bus stopped to pick up a passenger off one of the first terraced streets of the town . |
| 26 | This conclusion , very obvious to historians and anthropologists , was a dramatic and difficult point to put over in a society which rejected this possibility as one of the first principles . |
| 27 | Annie now embarked on her remarkable public career , first as an associate of the atheist Charles Bradlaugh in the National Secular Society , then as a Fabian socialist and strike leader ( of the London matchgirls ) , and as one of the first members of the London School Board . |
| 28 | Estée Lauder 's latest launch , Time-Zone , looks set to continue this preoccupation with dry skin as one of the first and most uncomfortable signs of an ageing complexion . |
| 29 | Finally , the pharmacological basis of changes in blood pressure which lead to hypertension was uncovered in several research centres , including Oxford , and these investigations on experimental animals led to the use of hexamethonium compounds as one of the first effective treatments for hypertension . |
| 30 | With Spain pushing hard for one of the first six seeded places , England could find themselves unseeded and playing in Sicily too , as the side ranked No.2 in a Group F headed by Belgium . |