Example sentences of "as their [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later generations of the family spoke English as their first language and went over to the Anglican church . |
| 2 | All a child needs is £1 as their first deposit . |
| 3 | Let us , then , be clear about the difference between longevity of service and older people joining committees or boards as their first appointment . |
| 4 | Against all medical advice a large and well-known British oil company had decided to break through time-honoured barriers of sex discrimination and employ this spunky lass , a liberated young lady and somewhat vociferous champion of equal rights for women , as their first ever female labourer . |
| 5 | The fry free swim in three to four days and are able to take freshly-hatched brine shrimp as their first food . |
| 6 | A sizeable proportion — the Americans , Canadians , Australians , New Zealanders — have as their first language the most supranational of all tongues , English . |
| 7 | A further meeting a week later produced more promising results with an attendance of twelve seamen who paid one shilling each as their first contribution . |
| 8 | Of these sixty-nine ( 4. 1% ) took the organ as their first study . |
| 9 | Pat had agreed and Anne and John spent a blissful leave fitting it up as their first home . |
| 10 | Many experiments suggest that pigeons , as their first resort , use the position of the sun in the sky , making allowance for its daily changes by means of an internal clock . |
| 11 | When asked what further services clients and their carers would wish , more home help was always given as their first priority . |
| 12 | Who should have control of the curriculum ; do those who have control have the education of all pupils as their first priority ? |
| 13 | Below are the world 's major languages ranked according to the number of people who have each as their first language — their mother tongue . |
| 14 | The scrutineers will proceed to add the number of first preference votes received by each candidate , eliminate the candidate with the lowest number of first preference votes and redistribute the votes of those giving him as their first preference amongst the two remaining candidates in accordance with their second preference . |
| 15 | First , they are a single purpose authority , and , unlike the local planning authorities of England and Scotland , were able , and indeed required , to pursue positive planning as their first priority . |
| 16 | And 46 per cent of the under-25s said they did n't view marriage as their last romantic attachment . |