Example sentences of "one [prep] [art] first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rate depends on the engine size , and gives two figures : one for the first 4,000 miles , with the second rate for all business mileage over 4,000 miles . |
| 2 | The term itself only began to be generally used in the early nineteenth century in Western Europe , and one of the first systematic discussions is to be found in the book by Lorenz von Stein , where the social movement is portrayed as a struggle for greater social independence culminating in the class struggle of the proletariat . |
| 3 | Seventy years ago Francis Carco , the writer , was one of the first private buyers of Modigliani 's nudes . |
| 4 | The island supports a lighthouse , unmanned since the 1930s , and one of the first automatic stations in the Trinity House Group . |
| 5 | BACK in 1987 one of the first tentative recognitions of AIDS in the arts world , a benefit concert called ‘ Music for Life ’ , was held at Carnegie Hall in New York . |
| 6 | But small though it is , Barèges was one of the first Pyrenean spas to make its name , mainly because Louis XIV 's sick son was sent there to be treated in the 1670s . |
| 7 | BOOKMAKERS were spared a potential six-figure payout yesterday when Loki , one of the first ante-post gambles of the new Flat season , was inadvertently left out of tomorrow 's William Hill Lincoln . |
| 8 | One of the first environmental hazards to be studied was that of desertification . |
| 9 | He thus became one of the first modern land surveyors . |
| 10 | Roger Perks , head of Baverstock , one of the first inner-city schools to opt out , received the OBE in the New Year Honours . |
| 11 | But maybe Kristin Hersh will be one of the first female artists whose alienation transcends gender . |
| 12 | Kos was one of the first female yachting photographers in the UK and through her desire to find new angles on yacht racing pictures she attained her initial breakthrough ( and a little notoriety ) from masthead shots of 12 meters at the 1983 America 's Cup . |
| 13 | He was one of the first deaf people to join the British Deaf Association . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Not that it 's much anyway , but it 's , it 's , there is a difference , and there is this pride of getting there , being one of the first six to get there , and there is quite a lot of competition , I can assure you . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , Microsoft 's Excel , one of the first Windows-based spreadsheets , has more than doubled its market share to 42% in the same period . |
| 17 | As it is one of the first international environmental GIS , the CORINE experience will be valuable in stimulating other , similar , projects and in providing experience on which other projects can draw . |
| 18 | Bernie Grant , representing Tottenham in the borough of Haringey and one of the first black MPs , was unequivocal and unambiguous in his opposition from the very start . |
| 19 | George Lansbury himself became one of the first reforming Poor Law Guardians in East London in the 1890s , and the social legislation of the Liberals , including the state Old Age Pension introduced in 1908 , was a direct response to the rising political influence of the labour movement . |
| 20 | He now embarked on a new recording contract for Capitol , and proved wrong all the critics who 'd said he was just emulating Crosby when he developed his own new determined style which culminated in 1955 with his album Songs For Swinging Lovers , one of the first best-selling LPs . |
| 21 | He is alleged to have been one of the first Scots to take a degree at Cambridge . |
| 22 | Seppings , who used to say ‘ partial strength produces general weakness ’ , seems to have been one of the first Naval Architects to have a clear mental picture of the stress systems in a ship 's hull . |
| 23 | He was one of the first eminent European scientists to make a career in the USA , and rapidly became a lion : his lectures and books were popular , and he built up a school and museum at Harvard . |
| 24 | Born in what was now Inner Mongolia , Ulanhu became one of the first Mongol members of the CCP when he joined in 1925 . |
| 25 | It was confirmed last night that Mr Lynch will work with Mr Bleasdale to plan the structure , budgets and contracts required for the ScotRail operating franchise — one of the first due to be set up under the privatisation plans . |
| 26 | But his next book should still fill a substantial gap : a biography of C.T.B. Turner , one of the first great Australian bowlers . |
| 27 | After qualifying , he settled at Bath , where he set up one of the first acute psychiatric units in a general hospital in the country . |
| 28 | One of the first Japanese arts to be recognised in the West was jiu jitsu , ‘ the art of flexibility ’ . |
| 29 | The bus stopped to pick up a passenger off one of the first terraced streets of the town . |
| 30 | Her data from Dudley , West Midlands , shows that this is one of the first Creole features adapted to . |