Example sentences of "one [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | One of the first systems to which the Schrödinger equation was applied was the simplest atom , hydrogen . |
3 | We were one of the first countries to ratify a new Council of Europe convention applying similar rules to all its Member States . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | China was one of the first countries to recognize the SLORC after it took power in 1988 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | One of the first companies to realise travellers need more than a ticket . |
8 | De La Rue , the security printing and payments systems group , has become one of the first companies to announce results under FRS 3 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | It takes its name from one of the first cases in which such an injunction was granted , Mareva Compania Naviera S.A . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . ’ |
18 | One of the first pubs in Lancaster |
19 | 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 . |
20 | Niki Harris , a ‘ Blonde Ambition ’ back-up singer , will reportedly be one of the first acts on Madonna 's Maverick record label , along with tour dancers Jose Gutierrez and Luis Camacho . |
21 | And one of the first acts of Pope Paul was to determine an early date for the opening of the new session — 29 September . |
22 | The Labour government of 74–79 had made it compulsory for local education authorities to reorganise secondary schools along comprehensive lines in the 1976 Education Act , but one of the first acts of the Conservative government of 1979 was to repeal this . |
23 | One of the first acts of the new Moldavian Supreme Soviet , which had convened on April 16 , had been to adopt on April 27 as the republic 's official flag the red , yellow and blue tricolour of Romania , in place of the variation on the Soviet red flag previously in use [ see pp. 37257-58 ] . |
24 | One of the first acts of the new Jatiya Sangsad was to elect Abdur Rahman Biswas of the BNP as Speaker . |
25 | One of the first acts of the new government was to announce an amnesty for all members of the old regime , except Najibullah . |
26 | One of the first acts of the coalition was to issue a challenge to the Prime Minister , John Major , to meet them . |
27 | In 1988 , distribution was one of the first Departments in C&P to gain ISO 9000 accreditation . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | It 's one of the first ones and it sounds really good . |
30 | Must be one of the first ones out . |