Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun] as the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Environmentalists dubbed it a failure for this reason , but acknowledged its importance as the first occasion on which all major world governments had agreed that global warming was a reality . |
| 2 | By the Welland St. Wilfrid built St. Leonard 's Priory , a masterpiece of Anglo-Saxon architecture , befitting its status as the first religious house in all Mercia . |
| 3 | Abul Ahsan ( a member of the Bangladesh foreign service ) completed his tenure as the first Secretary-General of SAARC at the end of October 1989 ; his successor , K. K. Bhargava ( India ) , took up the post at the Secretariat in Kathmandu , the capital of Nepal . |
| 4 | Surtees was not content to end his career as the first dual world champion ; he wanted more . |
| 5 | ‘ We 're trying to package that with Sony , using our anthology as the first example of the technology . |
| 6 | They have become coordinators largely because they have established their reputations as the first to counteract those years of neglect , but they have themselves suffered more from that neglect than the new generation of community language teachers which is at last emerging . |