Example sentences of "one [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 31 | One of the first such histories was written by the French writer and philosopher Montesquieu in the middle of the eighteenth century under the title The Spirit of the Laws . |
| 32 | This conclusion , very obvious to historians and anthropologists , was a dramatic and difficult point to put over in a society which rejected this possibility as one of the first principles . |
| 33 | One of the first examples if the study of the Inca state by Métraux [ 1969 ] . |
| 34 | One of the first ‘ political ’ statements in the Boston text is the copyright restriction notice . |
| 35 | He became one of the first football commentators on radio , copying the urgent , excitable American style of the ‘ gee-whizzers ’ , earning himself the nickname of ‘ By Jove ’ Allison on the way . |
| 36 | The rhythm of sleep and activity is one of the first to develop . |
| 37 | One of the first things Tolkien did after his return to Oxford in 1925 was to set up an Icelandic reading group such as he had enjoyed during his last job , as Professor of English at Leeds . |
| 38 | One of the first Namibians to cast his vote was the Swapo leader , Mr Sam Nujoma , aged 60 . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | Vertical applications have just started to appear , one of the first being Cambridge Micro 's package for estate agents ( Computer , June 1 ) . |
| 41 | ‘ Yugoslavia must also not be forgotton since Yugoslavia was one of the first East European countries to show courage in making change , although its economy has not necessarily benefited from this , ’ said President Mitterrand . |
| 42 | THE source material of A Private Life , one of the first theatrical projects funded by the BBC , derives to all intents and purposes from a five-minute segment in an award-winning BBC series from 1978 called The White Tribe Of Africa . |
| 43 | Dixons has been one of the first retail chains to suffer from the slowing of retail demand . |
| 44 | I would be one of the first to say re-open it . ’ |
| 45 | He opened his shop in Nurenburg selling radios and producing transformers in 1930 , and in 1945 he was allowed by the Allies to relocate his business in Furth , where it was one of the first to produce FM radios , then television sets — and high fidelity reel-to-reel tape recorders which serious musicians felt obliged to pay serious money for . |
| 46 | One of the first battles between the giants of the world aerospace industry will be for a $2billion order from British Airways for either the 777 or the A330 to replace its ageing fleet of Tristars . |
| 47 | He was one of the first in the battered political hierarchy to head for Moscow voluntarily for negotiations with Brezhnev . |
| 48 | One of the first tourists to venture into the former realm of King Zog was John Biffen , who soon discovered his fairly orthodox demeanor was regarded as offensively trendy by Albania 's time-warped Bolshevists . |
| 49 | Yuri Korablev , deputy chairman of the Scientific Council on Complex Problems of the History of the Great October Socialist Revolution was one of the first to publish an article recognising that Trotsky was the driving force behind the creation of the Red Army . |
| 50 | One of the first companies to realise travellers need more than a ticket . |
| 51 | Hospitality was one of the first duties of any bride ; at certain social levels it was a woman 's raison d'etre . |
| 52 | Extrasure is this year one of the first insurers to reduce the qualifying period to eight hours . |
| 53 | But maybe Kristin Hersh will be one of the first female artists whose alienation transcends gender . |
| 54 | The Manor was one of the first houses my father ever pointed out to me in an effort to get me to appreciate architecture . |
| 55 | Carter had worked under James Wyatt , one of the first professional architects to recognize the Gothic style in the eighteenth century . |
| 56 | It was one of the first recipes that my husband attempted in his bachelor days . |
| 57 | His conviction ends the 3.5-year investigation into Vernon Savings , one of the first by the federal bank-fraud taskforce . |
| 58 | Boyle refers to him again and again , ‘ one of the first and greatest experimental philosophers of our age ’ . |
| 59 | One of the first signs one sees at the airport challenges , in English : ‘ Take a chance on success ! ’ |
| 60 | That poem , ‘ Believing Is Seeing , ’ refers to one of the first poems we wrote together . |