Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] as [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To many geographers the general statistical tendencies revealed above do not explain anything , and the use of industrial structure in this context is seen only as a first step in the analysis of spatial change . |
| 2 | A BRITISH general was named yesterday as the first commander of Nato 's new Allied Rapid Reaction Corps , heading about 80,000 troops from 11 countries . |
| 3 | Negotiations over the final contract were still going on as the first DinDisc releases appeared . |
| 4 | On the other side of the energy account book is the surface energy , 2 G.l , which is needed to form the new surfaces and clearly this increases only as the first power of the depth of the crack . |
| 5 | After staging several provocative manoeuvres in Vilnius , the newly arrived Soviet paratroopers on Jan. 11 occupied the headquarters of the Lithuanian Defence Council , a government department set up as a first step towards establishing an independent Lithuanian army . |