Example sentences of "one [prep] [pron] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of its first tasks is developing ten acres of land , adjoining the new Enfield Sainsbury 's site , for Roys R Us plus 100,000 sq ft of other non-food retail space . |
| 2 | This has been partially a result of literate Europe 's historical-mindedness ; one of its first manifestations was the rapid appearance of a number of new historical journals at the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 3 | Marathon Oil UK 's licence to explore waters off Point of Ayr , Clwyd , is one of its first operations outside the oil-rich Bray Field , 155 miles North East of Aberdeen . |
| 4 | But the White House Chief of Staff , John Sununu , has started an inquiry into the administration 's performance in one of its first efforts in foreign policy crisis management . |
| 5 | One of its first customers is Storage Tech . |
| 6 | On its first day the Congress , after acrimonious debate and procedural wrangling , rejected by only one vote a proposal to make the election of the Supreme Soviet Chairman one of its first agenda items . |
| 7 | One of its first acts is to hook a newly acquired bank into its own computer systems . |
| 8 | One of its first acts was to declare a 200-mile zone within which all foreign vessels need licences to fish . |
| 9 | Henry was educated by the Revd Eliezer Cogan [ q.v. ] and then in Brighton under Dr John Morell , entering University College London as one of its first students , from 1829 to 1831 . |
| 10 | He had been educated in England and after graduating from Oxford had returned to Kenya where he served with the Intelligence Corps for ten years before being recruited to UNACO as one of its first field operatives . |
| 11 | The NHS Management Executive has now created a prescribing team , one of whose first actions has been to require that prescribing is a priority for medical advisers . |
| 12 | Naturally , one of her first customers was her Cousin Ruth . |
| 13 | On one of her first visits to Hamilton Terrace in Bobby 's company she was told that ‘ the Roberts ’ were coming to tea . |
| 14 | Laura , 31 , went to school with Diana and when the Princess moved into her flat in Cadogan Place , in London , Laura was one of her first flatmates . |
| 15 | One of her first purchases has become the museum 's biggest loss : ‘ The Concert ’ by Jan Vermeer , bought at an auction in Paris for FFr29,000 . |
| 16 | In one of her first school plays where she played a Dutch doll , Diana only agreed to take the part if she could remain silent . |
| 17 | We were showing a Jessie Matthews film called Evergreen , one of her first films , in which she wore long silk stockings . |
| 18 | One of her first arrivals at Heathrow gave the British tabloids a field day as she climbed off a long-haul flight from Australia in the same travel-weary outfit she had boarded in . |
| 19 | After Rhydoldog , Jane was invited to undertake a second phase of decoration at Remaisnil and , as one of her first gestures , removed a series of framed modern posters which Bernard had positioned up the main stairway ; the focus of the hallway henceforth was a magnificent eighteenth-century Brussels tapestry . |
| 20 | LAURA AND BERNARD IN CAREFREE MOOD ON ONE OF THEIR FIRST HOLIDAYS ABROAD , STAYING WITH CLUB MEDITERRANÉE PIAMBO IN NORTHERN ITALY , 1952 . |
| 21 | It was no accident that when I was writing this , the Conservatives had just been returned to power in the 1983 election , and one of their first moves was to try to disguise popular discontent with the police by the restoration of the rope . |
| 22 | Stalin 's successors were determined to reduce this role and one of their first acts was to have the head of the KGB , Beria , arrested and executed ( it was the last execution of a major political figure in the Soviet Union ) . |
| 23 | The new Foundation for Educational Research ( later the National Foundation , NFER ) saw the development of record cards as one of their first tasks . |
| 24 | That was the year — 1931 — when the Youth Hostels Association was formed , and Clare went on one of their first trips , organised by the local school , to a hostel in the Dukeries , not far north in Lincolnshire . |
| 25 | In my view the successes were finding great works of classical Modern art and placing them in important collections such as Gustav Klimt 's ‘ Portrait of Gallia ’ in the National Gallery , London ( the only painting by Klimt in England ) ; Oskar Kokoschka 's ‘ View of the Thames ’ 1926 , one of his first London views , in the National Gallery of Wales , Cardiff ; Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 's ‘ Three Nudes ’ , in the Art Gallery of New South Wales , Sydney , Australia the only great Expressionist painting in Australia ; Henry Moore 's ‘ Reclining Figure ’ , one of his three monumental carvings . |
| 26 | Mr Hill , appointed chairman this week , said one of his first moves would be to separate management of the company from Bond Corp , which is struggling under huge debts . |
| 27 | It escaped general attention at the time , but Joseph Guglielmi , Taligent 's chairman and chief executive says that one of his first moves on joining the company was to create three quite separate divisions . |
| 28 | It escaped general attention at the time , but Joseph Guglielmi , Taligent 's chairman and chief executive says that one of his first moves on joining the company was to create three quite separate divisions . |
| 29 | It escaped general attention at the time , but Joseph Guglielmi , Taligent 's chairman and chief executive says that one of his first moves on joining the company was to create three quite separate divisions . |
| 30 | In the search for new initiatives one of his first moves was to seek the advice of the British ambassador , Sir Oliver Franks . |