Example sentences of "of the first [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ Hope Dionysus ’ was one of the first acquisitions for the Met 's Greek and Roman Art Department by curator in charge Carlos A. Picon , who assumed his position in 1990 . |
| 2 | One of the first projects for the Krakow centre will be the modification of an existing hospital to make it an energy efficient building . |
| 3 | Sir Antony , in a letter to Senator John Warner , who is the leading Republican on the Senate armed services committee , said that ‘ any withholding of productive funding … would have a knock-on effect which could delay the arrival of the first missiles for the Royal Navy , and continue to impose time and cost penalties on the British Trident programme ’ . |
| 4 | One of the first tasks for reclaiming the garden was to surround it with a leylandii hedge . |
| 5 | One of the first tasks for the trust could be to restore the organ , But with a Governent grant of just £20,000 to look after three other chapels , they 'll have to pull out all the stops to raise the money . |
| 6 | At the Barlaston factory there are two new technological advances — one of the first dust-presses for the manufacture of bone china dishes , and the latest model in unleaded glazing machines . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They are one of the first candidates for food irradiation , which will replace the chemicals that are used to protect them from pests during storage . |