Example sentences of "one [prep] the [num ord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He aimed to increase off-peak travel in particular by enhancing the quality of travel and station environment by ‘ Operation Pride ’ , a name coined to launch the quality improvement drive , and by new and imaginative marketing exercises , one of the first of which was a ‘ Network Day ’ on 21 June when over 200,000 people took advantage of the special £3 ticket enabling them to travel all day anywhere . |
| 2 | It is one of the first of its kind and won the COMDEF award in 1991 for the most innovative software solution . |
| 3 | It is a meaty breed , similar to the Limousin , and was one of the first of the declining breeds to be conserved by the government 20 years ago . |
| 4 | It could be one of the first of the man-made units of goodness to be added to the existing store already laid up by the evolutionary process . |
| 5 | Sonia was one of the first of the black running stars and had run at all the major meetings and been on television . |
| 6 | Eusthenopteron , one of the first of the crossopterygii to grow stumpy fins , which later became legs . |
| 7 | Many years later , about 1943 , I introduced a distinguished Air Marshal to one of the first of the airborne glass-fibre radomes , a biggish thing intended to be bolted under a Lancaster bomber . |
| 8 | Her number BGK009059 said that she was one of the first of the Bergen K line , the Kobolds that plied the spaceways of the solar system , taking this here and that there , for nearly fifty years . |
| 9 | One of the first of a long series of attempts to reconstruct the facts behind the records was undertaken by Hermann Samuel Reimarus ( 1694 — 1768 ) in his Apology for the Reasonable Worshippers of God . |
| 10 | In one of the first of these surveys ( of the fourth and fifth year curriculum in secondary schools ) in 1979 , the HMI noted that secondary teachers made wide use of ‘ heavily directed teaching , a preponderance of dictated or copied notes , and emphasis on the giving and recall of information , with little room or time for enquiry or explanation of applications ’ . |
| 11 | Sources say SunPics was ‘ dragged kicking and screaming ’ into the brand new Sun Microsystems Inc and Adobe Computer Systems Inc alliance , ( UX No 404 ) , orchestrated by SunSoft Inc president Ed Zander , one of the first of the Sun mafia to come to grips with the slippery notion of standards — prodded no doubt by the coming onslaught of Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT . |
| 12 | In the expansion of academic legal scholarship that has taken place in the past 20 years family law was one of the first of the traditional areas of study to be ‘ broadened ’ . |
| 13 | One of the first of what is now English Estates trading estates was built at Chirton in North Shields under the 1930s special areas legislation . |
| 14 | One of the first of these , treading closely on the Holmes ; heels , was Arthur Morrison , author of two novels still current , A Child of the Jago and The Hole in the Wall , who appears to have built his Martin Hewitt , private investigator , almost as an exact opposite of Holmes . |
| 15 | And I went about two years ago on a gorgeous and sunny morning like one of the first of the season , you know , and the place was packed . |
| 16 | She was one of the first of the British geographers whose interests covered the whole range of the field , and this breadth is reflected in her many writings . |
| 17 | The stone-floored basement was converted into a huge , communal changing room , one of the first of its kind , and Bernard thoughtfully provided a large leather armchair for bored husbands or partners . |
| 18 | Matisse , who was one of the first of the painters of his generation to appreciate the true genius of Cézanne , had been working under his influence since 1899 , the year in which he bought Cézanne 's Trois Baigneuses from Vollard , choosing it in preference to an Arlésienne by Van Gogh , and in the figure pieces that lead up to the Bonheur , the influence of Cézanne is immediately obvious . |
| 19 | Although it is modest compared with the major producing fields , it has great significance as one of the first of a new generation of small fields to use the processing facilities offered by another field operator . |
| 20 | One of the first of our combined operations with the ID was in 1978 and heralded anew era in co-operation between our sea and shore based officers . |
| 21 | that 's , that 's er I know that Mrs has asked er youngsters at the Minster School to write in , and obviously this is one of the first of those . |
| 22 | The new £4 million ‘ granulation ’ plant from Luxembourg is one of the first of its kind to be installed in Britain . |
| 23 | Recently Thresher has also been involved in the development of a national vocational qualification at levels 1–4 through the retail Certificate and it has been one of the first of three British companies to offer an opportunity for staff to obtain NVQ recognition through all stages . |
| 24 | Country Landowners Association president Lord De Ramsey became one of the first of British agriculture 's leaders to meet the new Minister . |
| 25 | Aye he was one of the first of the crew . |
| 26 | Quality of finish was n't too good at many points on our test tractor , either , but we have to assume it was largely because our machine was one of the first off the production line . |
| 27 | London-based HM Systems Plc which , with its Minstrel workstation was one of the first vendors to ship an 80486-based machine , says it also plans to be one of the first off the mark with Pentium machines . |
| 28 | One of the first on stream is ‘ Ashton Cross ’ , a sweet bramble with a vigorous habit ; last is ‘ Oregon Thornless ’ , which is not the best in flavour but gives fruit for cooking and preserving until the hard frosts strike . |
| 29 | Avon ambulance chief Barry Richardson , one of the first on the scene , said : ‘ It was carnage . |
| 30 | One of the first on the scene to treat him at Bath was full back Jon Webb , an orthopaedic surgeon . |