Example sentences of "one of the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was one of the first chefs to put gastronomic vegetarian meals on the menu seven years ago . |
| 2 | REMEMBRANCE was one of the first Film on Four projects . |
| 3 | For most people one of the first questions to answer is ‘ How am I going to pay for it ? ’ |
| 4 | He was one of the first to design TV campaigns : you know , the super-hero voice advising the daffy housewife how she can best clean his clothes ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There have even been attempts to stage biographies , one of the first being Loring 's Billy the Kid ( see page 30 ) . |
| 7 | David Bintley 's The Swan of Tuonela was one of the first attempts to create a ballet from the Finnish epic with music by Sibelius , a truly national composer from Finland . |
| 8 | One of the first prizes is shown in the main photograph . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | One of the first dogs Steve rescued — four-year-old Tyler — had an eye poked out by a loutish owner wielding a screwdriver . |
| 11 | One of the first to emerge was DFDP from Atlanta Signal processing ( Fig. 1 ) , at one time marketed by Texas Instruments . |
| 12 | Wireless World almost created civil war in the audio industry at about this time over its publication of one of the first RC-coupled amplifiers . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | One of the first commercial products to derive from this biotechnology is likely to be genetically engineered tomatoes . |
| 15 | The extra stress that it will have caused to forest trees in Britain and the continent will provide one of the first tests of his new ideas . |
| 16 | With no real power-base of his own , he was one of the first radicals to suffer disgrace . |
| 17 | A portrait of Commodore Sir John Hayes , one of the first men to explore the Tasmanian coast , sold for £23,100 to an unnamed Australian institution . |
| 18 | Mr Heseltine , its chief architect , was one of the first to dump it , especially when he fought the proposal of Consortium Development to build a town whose name was as instant an invention as its community would have been : Stone Bassett , like Consortium 's Tillingham Hall before it , was turned down by Mr Ridley , who was not the permissive planning minister he was often thought to be . |
| 19 | A close working relationship with John Wilkinson , the club chairman , developed over the last five years , and Ashcroft 's position was considered one of the First Division 's safest . |
| 20 | One resident , Jim Goodson , aged 105 , who enlisted in the Army in 1902 at the age of 17 , remembered being one of the first to be issued with a khaki uniform , an improvement on the red tunics which the Boers picked off so easily . |
| 21 | One of the first fungi to show is lycoperdon perlatum . |
| 22 | But Tich was always happy in his way , and curiously one of his merriest nights was when he and the The Shepton Mallet pop festival was one of the first and biggest outdoor pop concerts , a drug-raddled campsite without tents , populated by beaded flower children in kaftans and body paint who had hitch-hiked west in their tens of thousands . |
| 23 | One of the first written descriptions of the waChagga system is that of Sir Harry Johnston in 1894 : |
| 24 | Browns team member Stuart Redman , from East London , one of the first to discover the dead Fish , said : ‘ It was an awful sight , the canal was frozen over and a carp of 10 lb , bream to 2 lb , roach and a tench were lying dead on top . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | One of the first examples if the study of the Inca state by Métraux [ 1969 ] . |
| 28 | One of the first ‘ political ’ statements in the Boston text is the copyright restriction notice . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The rhythm of sleep and activity is one of the first to develop . |