Example sentences of "as the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bedford Park is regarded as the first Garden Suburb in England , and thus has an international importance , while Shaw is one of the most important architects of the Victorian period , best known as the designer of the old New Scotland Yard building on the London Embankment . |
| 2 | So the consideration of his uncles ' place in both the community and the synagogue calls to mind the fact that his father , as the first born son , should have had that pre-eminence . |
| 3 | We 'll have it as the first course this evening . ’ |
| 4 | John Welsby was appointed as the first Director , Provincial , and he set about evaluating the sources of the sector 's costs . |
| 5 | The remarkable feature of the Mark 3 is the fact that only one basic bodyshell was produced so that standard-class coaches have exactly the same external dimensions , window spacing and appearance as the first class . |
| 6 | An office was rented in St Albans and a small staff was appointed , with Michael Hardman as the first editor of publications , responsible for both What 's Brewing and the new and immediately successful Good Beer Guide , which listed all the known outlets for real ale . |
| 7 | Rhos Quarry closed in 1953 — a godsend to Evan 's health as well as his career — and after working briefly in the forestry plantations he was taken on as the first National Nature Reserve Warden of the newly-formed Nature Conservancy Council . |
| 8 | The result : triumph as the first Allied general to enter Rome . |
| 9 | THE Second World War wrought as great a change in Lebanese history as the First . |
| 10 | The man who issued every order and arranged every detail of the lying and brutality which resulted in these massacres was Brigadier Toby Low … subsequently ennobled ( in 1962 ) as the first Baron Aldington . ’ |
| 11 | This question produces as varied a response as the first . |
| 12 | Rehearsals for important premieres , such as the first Polish performance of Shostakovich 's Fourteenth Symphony at an inaugural concert of the Warsaw Autumn , could take many weeks . |
| 13 | Harris came to York in 1963 as the first lecturer appointed to the English Department by the founding professor Philip Brockbank . |
| 14 | Tomorrow he delivers a lecture Beyond the Rhetoric : a cool look at architectural judgement as the first in a series by new professors at Leeds Polytechnic . |
| 15 | DAAN VAN DER MEULEN is best known in English-speaking circles as the first reliable explorer of the Wadi Hadhramaut in South Africa , a little-known , wild region , riven by tribal feuds , hardly explored , and fraught with danger for the outsider ; though he himself would probably have liked to be remembered equally for his services in the Dutch colonial administration in Sumatra . |
| 16 | His fantasy would more probably have been of Robyn as the first female , naked centre-forward for Birmingham City . |
| 17 | The Government 's insistence that the Channel tunnel rail link be privately-financed is being seen as the first stage in a longer term plan to privatise the entire British Rail network . |
| 18 | ELECTRONIC tagging of remand prisoners , seen as the first stage towards plans to introduce community-based punishments , was attacked by probation officers yesterday . |
| 19 | As the first one had managed to flutter down , it seemed that the rest should be able to do the same , but I judged it safer to load them into a cardboard box and lower them gently . |
| 20 | Levitt considers many Japanese companies as the first truly global marketers and contrasts their practices strongly with the approach taken by Hoover in marketing automatic washing machines in Europe . |
| 21 | the sound of whose surname and its positioning at the start of the final stanza aurally and visually rhymes with ‘ Declines ’ which similarly ends a sentence as the first word of stanza six . |
| 22 | — Odour potent as the first |
| 23 | Finniston proudly describes it ‘ as the first essay in caring capitalism that I know of . ’ |
| 24 | The HRT team — owned by Tom Walkinshaw and managed by Percy — became national heroes as the first to win Bathurst in an Australian car since 1987 , when Peter Brock was awarded victory after the first and second-placed Texaco Sierras were excluded . |
| 25 | By the age of 25 or so the oiliness should be settling down but you may find yourself with a new problem : laughter and frown lines must finally be acknowledged as the first signs of an ageing skin . |
| 26 | Pearson is seen as the first British director to be sacrificed on the altar of his art . |
| 27 | With much-ballyhoo , Scottish Mutual has announced the introduction , from December 1 , of what it describes as the first ‘ risk-graded ’ Personal Equity Plan . |
| 28 | As the first Catholic public official in America to be banned in this way , Mrs Killea became an overnight celebrity , featured in newspapers and appeared on peak-hour television . |
| 29 | And despite her best entreaties , this Woking housewife achieved instant fame as the first person to miss the deadline for the much-hyped water offer . |
| 30 | After the revolution , in 1923 , Moscow River Yacht Club challenged the Workers Fitness Club for what was recorded as the first rugby encounter in the history of Soviet sport . |