Example sentences of "first of a [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first of a regular series of meetings of the chiefs of staff of all participating countries was held on April 10 . |
| 2 | It is the first of a promised family of RS/6000 RISC-based serial and parallel systems and part of the ‘ parallel revolution ’ that IBM believes is destined to transform both technical and commercial computing markets alike . |
| 3 | That meeting , which could occur as early as two weeks ' time , will then declare at least a three-month gap in meetings to fulfil the Unionist precondition for talks and clear the way for the first of a three-stage set of inter-party and inter-government negotiations to prepare a new British-Irish Agreement . |
| 4 | He gestured towards the first of a long row of recuperation pods , where Christine LaFayette 's face was visible through a clear plastic window . |
| 5 | Hervey , a Breton , was appointed bishop , the first of a long series of members of the English royal court to be provided with a Welsh see : he was also the first bishop in Wales to come under the authority of an English archbishop . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The Director-General of RTF was appointed by the government ( as were the heads of state or public service radio and TV until 1982 ) : the ‘ DG ’ appointed in 1946 , Vladimir Porche , held his post for 11 years ; but governments conceived of broadcasting as a state administration , and Porche himself — a ‘ counseiller d'etat ’ — was the first of a long series of ‘ counseillers d'etat ’ , prefects and top civil servants to head the state broadcasting organizations , RTF and ORTF ( i.e. until 1974 ) . |
| 8 | He is the first of a long line of distinguished French portrait sculptors . |
| 9 | Mike Gatting , first of a long line of England captains in 1988 . |
| 10 | In vitro fertilisation is only the first of a long line of reproductive technologies which may be developed in the future . |
| 11 | Phil was the first of a long list of people to tackle this challenge — abseiling down the 170 feet of the electrical engineering tower . |
| 12 | But in 1984 , Arthur succumbed to an obscure lung complaint that almost killed him , the first of a long list of lay-offs throughout his career . |
| 13 | Palafox and Romana are thus the first of a long succession of generals who claimed that the army officers embodied the general will of the nation , perverted by a selfish clique of unpopular politicians . |
| 14 | Robinson was the first of a new generation of supporters of Paisleyism . |
| 15 | The first of a new generation of strong-motion seismic data-acquisition systems has been developed , and commissioned at Hunterston power station for Scottish Nuclear . |
| 16 | He was the first of a new generation of writers who sought to repair the post-Conquest destruction of earlier pieties and observances by steady persistence in re-creating the past . |
| 17 | ‘ The 17m prototype , FAB 3 , is undergoing the most rigorous sea trials which will continue until we can be completely satisfied that she is in every way suitable to become the first of a new generation of fast All-weather lifeboats . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Ford say this is the first of a new generation of cars . |
| 20 | These babies are to be the first of a new kind of missile , powered by life . |
| 21 | The first of a new series of annual reports on attitudes , values and beliefs , Social Attitudes in Northern Ireland is based on detailed interviews carried out with a large and representative sample of adults , and presents exacting analyses of their opinions on a wide range of issues — including national identity , law and order , discrimination , the role of women , morality , poverty and AIDS . |
| 22 | ‘ I think of myself as a social worker ’ , he says , in the first of a new series of Inside Story : Immoral Earnings ( BBC1 , 9.30pm ) . |
| 23 | The first of a new family of drugs based on the leech has been developed thanks to a key piece of understanding provided by Huber 's team at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Germany . |
| 24 | Taking a leaf out of NCR Corp 's book of strategies , Unisys Corp will next week unveil the first of a new line of highly configurable Intel Corp and EISA-based personal computers that , with few if any changes , will magically turn into Unix-run workstations and entry-level servers early in the second quarter . |
| 25 | He suspected that if he were to walk into the newsroom and make an arrest there would be only a momentary gasp before someone was out with the first of a new crop of jokes . |
| 26 | Earlier in the month , on Nov. 8 , Roh had attended a one-day meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa in Kyoto , in what was described as the first of a planned series of regular bilateral discussions . |
| 27 | And he was to be the first of a growing number of police officers to take part once a week — as we tried to persuade our viewers to do more to help the police in preventing and solving crimes , as well as catching the villains . |
| 28 | Krakatoa is merely the first of a whole chain of active volcanoes which arc down through the Indonesian islands and round the Pacific to form what geologists call the Ring of Fire . |
| 29 | It was the first of a whole series of his ruminative House of Commons orations , at once homespun and high-flown , which , whatever else may be thought about them , rarely failed to capture the ears of his listeners . |
| 30 | The early 1860s saw the first of a whole series of underground organizations designed to spread populist propaganda and prepare for revolutionary action against the regime . |