Example sentences of "[was/were] one [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were one of the first countries to ratify a new Council of Europe convention applying similar rules to all its Member States . |
| 2 | The Downs were one of the first areas of Sussex to be colonised by man and were probably quickly cleared of their original vegetation of scrubby woodland . |
| 3 | Glass membrane potentiometric electrodes were one of the first to be used as part of enzyme electrodes , typically for monitoring of pH in hydrolase catalysed reactions — eg urea assays . |
| 4 | The Carthaginians were one of the first to set the trend when they founded Ibiza in 654 BC . |
| 5 | When David Kay , Roy Goddard and Fred Rogers established their business in 1970 , they were one of the first British firms to operate in the same way as Spencer Stuart , Heidrick and Struggles and Egon Zehnder . |
| 6 | We were one of the first credit information providers to computerise our data resource and our understanding of technology has brought many benefits to our customer . |
| 7 | They were one of the first , and certainly one of the most successful , manufacturers of steam-powered farm machinery . |
| 8 | Some difficulties were experienced in the interpretation of SCOTVEC guidance documents , but this was to be expected as we were one of the first colleges to be involved in developing units for the HNC Pilot Scheme , and telephone communication with the SCOTVEC Curriculum Development Officers , who were most helpful , usually resolved them for us . |
| 9 | Well we were lucky in that we 've been able to do , have a , a very good relationship with a company called well known in the marine side and they put in forty five thousand pounds into er the scheme and promised that before Christmas and that was reading the paper one day in November the , the Robert the National Heritage Minister saying that they may be , may , if you 're lucky , going to put some money into sport and er so we contacted them and we were one of the first sports to get , had money doubled as they say in the bingo hall , so we er we now have ninety , ninety thousand pounds and which I wh has been distributed or will be distributed in the , in the following way so that 's how we 're gon na spend it and er these er , the administration represent we were basically overwhelmed with enquiries and s we took on a person in order to , to do it , the normal R Y A staff had already got enough on so we took on a girl called Sara who answers all the queries on the Year of Youth Hotline and erm we are also running the boat shows , the four or five N B L challenge which is the flagship event for our sponsors which is er I wo n't go into the , the details but is a , a talent fight , talent spotting event for under sixteen year olds around the country and it provided fleet of dinghies , the prize for which is a dinghy which is not , not a bad prize I think you 'll agree . |
| 10 | But you were one of the first to start . |
| 11 | ‘ I was one of the first chefs to put gastronomic vegetarian meals on the menu seven years ago . |
| 12 | REMEMBRANCE was one of the first Film on Four projects . |
| 13 | He was one of the first to design TV campaigns : you know , the super-hero voice advising the daffy housewife how she can best clean his clothes ? |
| 14 | David Bintley 's The Swan of Tuonela was one of the first attempts to create a ballet from the Finnish epic with music by Sibelius , a truly national composer from Finland . |
| 15 | I was one of the first ones to be flown out and then there was a postal hold-up so I had real trouble finding out what was going on , and also trying to organise to have him brought home . |
| 16 | He made no secret of his Francophile enthusiasms , in reaction to the earlier domination of American music by Germans , and he was one of the first writers to register the importance of jazz . |
| 17 | With no real power-base of his own , he was one of the first radicals to suffer disgrace . |
| 18 | Mr Heseltine , its chief architect , was one of the first to dump it , especially when he fought the proposal of Consortium Development to build a town whose name was as instant an invention as its community would have been : Stone Bassett , like Consortium 's Tillingham Hall before it , was turned down by Mr Ridley , who was not the permissive planning minister he was often thought to be . |
| 19 | But Tich was always happy in his way , and curiously one of his merriest nights was when he and the The Shepton Mallet pop festival was one of the first and biggest outdoor pop concerts , a drug-raddled campsite without tents , populated by beaded flower children in kaftans and body paint who had hitch-hiked west in their tens of thousands . |
| 20 | ‘ Yugoslavia must also not be forgotton since Yugoslavia was one of the first East European countries to show courage in making change , although its economy has not necessarily benefited from this , ’ said President Mitterrand . |
| 21 | He opened his shop in Nurenburg selling radios and producing transformers in 1930 , and in 1945 he was allowed by the Allies to relocate his business in Furth , where it was one of the first to produce FM radios , then television sets — and high fidelity reel-to-reel tape recorders which serious musicians felt obliged to pay serious money for . |
| 22 | He was one of the first in the battered political hierarchy to head for Moscow voluntarily for negotiations with Brezhnev . |
| 23 | Yuri Korablev , deputy chairman of the Scientific Council on Complex Problems of the History of the Great October Socialist Revolution was one of the first to publish an article recognising that Trotsky was the driving force behind the creation of the Red Army . |
| 24 | Hospitality was one of the first duties of any bride ; at certain social levels it was a woman 's raison d'etre . |
| 25 | The Manor was one of the first houses my father ever pointed out to me in an effort to get me to appreciate architecture . |
| 26 | It was one of the first recipes that my husband attempted in his bachelor days . |
| 27 | Interestingly , Dr James Young Simpson of Edinburgh University , who was one of the first to use chloroform , flatly denied any of these side effects , and said the doctors were seeing what they wanted to see . |
| 28 | As a result , although his club was one of the first to develop Smiley culture , much to his relief Danny never became a tabloid Mr Big . |
| 29 | Nicholas Doig , who farms with his father Dennis at Overy Farm , Eccles , Quidenham , Norfolk was one of the first people in the UK to fit a Packman to a crop sprayer . |
| 30 | However , it must be said that our test tractor was one of the first to come into Germany , so perhaps some early trim problems are to be expected . |