Example sentences of "one [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pride of place goes to Crawfordsburn Country Club who are making a bid to get into junior division one for the first time . |
| 2 | Lots of inquiries about Foster and Allen they 're coming on the programme later they 've just got number one for the first time with their new video with their new single I do n't know I 'm not quite sure we 'll find out when they get here well they 've just got number one for the first time and they 've been trying hard for a long time . |
| 3 | Lots of inquiries about Foster and Allen they 're coming on the programme later they 've just got number one for the first time with their new video with their new single I do n't know I 'm not quite sure we 'll find out when they get here well they 've just got number one for the first time and they 've been trying hard for a long time . |
| 4 | In Oxfordshire the Stonesfield slate-pits and mines shut down one by one during the second half of the nineteenth century ; in Leicestershire the Swithland slate-quarries , which had been worked since Henry III 's time , shut down altogether in 1887 ; and so it was in nearly every county in England . |
| 5 | On 4 November , in one of the twentieth century 's most ideologically self-sacrificial gestures , members of the CNT swallowed their hostility towards the exercise of authority and joined the Republican government . |
| 6 | Is n't it , perhaps , a notable historical coincidence that the greatest European novelist of the nineteenth century should be introduced at the Pyramids to one of the twentieth century 's most notorious fictional characters ? |
| 7 | Principal auditors will have to consider the professional competence of other auditors used during an audit , under one of the second tranche of audit standard revisions issued for public comment by the Auditing Practices Board . |
| 8 | City twice came from behind to take a point against one of the second division 's form teams . |
| 9 | BATTLE of Britain hero Group Captain Tom Gleave , who survived what was one of the Second World War 's most decisive conflicts , has died aged 84 . |
| 10 | One of the first temperance groups in the country started in Darlington in 1831 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | One of the first UK software houses to turn its attention to the virus menace , S&S International recently released version 6 of Dr Solomon 's Anti-Virus Toolkit ( AVTK ) . |
| 13 | One of the first systems to which the Schrödinger equation was applied was the simplest atom , hydrogen . |
| 14 | We were one of the first countries to ratify a new Council of Europe convention applying similar rules to all its Member States . |
| 15 | Along with Argentina , Chile was one of the first countries in Latin America to experience union organisation and by 1970 , the labour movement had emerged as a strong and ideologically independent organisation . |
| 16 | China was one of the first countries to recognize the SLORC after it took power in 1988 . |
| 17 | England had been one of the first countries to adopt Gothic designs but was one of the last to relinquish the style which passed into a Perpendicular phase unique to the British Isles . |
| 18 | One of the first companies to realise travellers need more than a ticket . |
| 19 | De La Rue , the security printing and payments systems group , has become one of the first companies to announce results under FRS 3 . |
| 20 | TI was one of the first companies to include a cash flow statement in its accounts , and it will implement FRS 3 , Reporting Financial Performance , in its 1992 accounts . |
| 21 | He said Apscore was one of the first companies to port its products to the Pick look-alike databases UniVerse and UniData , and now the Sun agreement will let them better support these products on Sun hardware . |
| 22 | It is hoped that Rambert will be one of the first companies to appear at the Festival Theatre when it opens next year , by which time Christopher Bruce will have taken over as artistic director of the company with which he used to be a leading dancer and choreographer . |
| 23 | It takes its name from one of the first cases in which such an injunction was granted , Mareva Compania Naviera S.A . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The style of the building is that of the 14th century , and it holds many monuments to previous rectors and the Bethell family , including a reference to Christopher Bethell who was one of the first whites to be killed in the Mafeking riots in July 1884 . |
| 26 | Seventeen years later , then Flight Lieutenant Reif , he flew as one of the first navigators in 2 Squadron Canberras when that unit deployed to South Vietnam in April 1967 . |
| 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 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | One of the first pubs in Lancaster |
| 30 | 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 . |