Example sentences of "of the first [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The message of The First of the Few ( 1942 , Spitfire in the US ) , a biopic of the life of R. J. Mitchell , is that the Spitfire was made possible by one man taking on short-sighted business executives and parsimonious government authorities . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The acceptance of the first of the three premises , that the god to be worshipped is not to be identified with the power which is assumed to have created the universe , will bring about a change from long established practice and is of great importance . |
| 6 | The acceptance of the first of the three new premises on which the philosophy of the Created God rests , that is , that ‘ god ’ is a product of life and not the creator of all things , implies the acceptance of the truth of the second and third . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Sonia was one of the first of the black running stars and had run at all the major meetings and been on television . |
| 9 | Eusthenopteron , one of the first of the crossopterygii to grow stumpy fins , which later became legs . |
| 10 | Industrial bosses , bourgeois professionals and trade union leaders all exemplify what Lloyd George called ‘ the principle of the first of the litter ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | Their most ancient forebears were connections of the echinoderms , but their cousins , much more unexpectedly , became the ancestors of the first of the backboned animals , the vertebrates . |
| 16 | I have named it after the Comte de Courchamps , author of the first of the three books in which I found the recipe . |
| 17 | With respect , I find this comment hard to follow in the light of the first of the questions asked in Reg. v. Lawrence and the answer to it , the passages from Viscount Dilhorne 's speech already cited , the fact that it was specifically argued ‘ appropriates is meant in a pejorative , rather than a neutral , sense in that the appropriation is against the will of the owner , ’ and finally that dishonesty was common ground . |
| 18 | With respect , I find this comment hard to follow in the light of the first of the questions asked in Reg. v. Lawrence and the answer to it , the passages from Viscount Dilhorne 's speech already cited , the fact that it was specifically argued ‘ appropriates is meant in a pejorative , rather than a neutral , sense in that the appropriation is against the will of the owner , ’ and finally that dishonesty was common ground . |
| 19 | The genus appeared suddenly in the Atlantic at the end of the Pliocene without any local antecedent forms , and it is thought that transarctic migrations of several Pacific genera , including Buccinunl and Searlesja as well as Nucella , occurred through the Bering Strait , between a half and one million years before the onset of the first of the Pleistocene glaciations ( Franz and Merrill , 1980 ) . |
| 20 | They have not yet accepted the defeat that is the essential component of the first of the 12 steps . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Even more exciting for me was the news that our Principal , Reg Clarke , had decided to entrust me with the command of the first of the 1.5 million pound cruisers to be named Searcher . |
| 25 | I worked in the communities that experienced the most painful impact of the first of the Government 's recessions in the 1980s . |
| 26 | I believe that an important part of the first of the new clauses tabled by my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) is the independence of interpreters . |
| 27 | It was included as part of the first of the twice-annual Eurobarometer surveys . |
| 28 | AND speaking of thespians , the magnificent Bill Owen will be downing some of the first of the summer wine in a York pub tonight in support of Labour candidate Hugh Bayley . |
| 29 | Aye he was one of the first of the crew . |
| 30 | Avon ambulance chief Barry Richardson , one of the first on the scene , said : ‘ It was carnage . |