Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] as the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To execute most commands it is necessary to move it into the Command Area as the first step in selecting a command . |
| 2 | Glenavon are on the march again with a Gold Cup quarter-final place in the bag and a £1,000 jackpot as the first team to score ten goals in the tournament . |
| 3 | Glenavon are on the march again with a Gold Cup quarter-final place in the bag and a £1,000 jackpot as the first team to score ten goals in the tournament . |
| 4 | Presumably , his testing years as the first black in major league baseball affected his perceptions ; he was abused verbally and physically , was sent threatening notes , was boycotted by many teams and at one stage , came to the brink of a nervous breakdown ( Henderson , 1970 , p.71 ) . |
| 5 | Fearing the introduction of caucus politics as the first stage toward installation of a socialist regime , disaffected Liberals were drawn into the camp of the Tories ; together they formed the Municipal Alliance , and by skilful reassertion of discourses of municipal activity embodied in incorporation assimilated the challenge of labour and took power in 1900 . |
| 6 | The Tories entered the record books as the first party to secure a fourth term in power since the early 19th century and caused a further surprise by regaining seats in Scotland — confounding predictions of a Conservative collapse north of the border . |
| 7 | Keegan has paid up the contracts of Billy Askew , David Keavney , Archie Gourlay , David Robinson and Anth Cole as the first step in a Geordie clear-out . |
| 8 | It is thought that Intel Corp will be introduce an initial Pentium chip as the first member of a family of ‘ Pentium technologies , ’ see front page . |
| 9 | In 1967 too the Warsaw Pact states declared that West Germany should recognise East Germany as the first step to meaningful détente but Brandt could not yet go so far : most West Germans still hoped for the reunification of Germany . |
| 10 | The fact that Guatemala in 1954 had ‘ returned from Communism ’ ( and was regarded by the United States as the first country to do so ) increased Soviet reluctance to be perceived to be experiencing another ‘ loss ’ in the area ( even though they did not accept that Castro was embarking on a road towards Communism ) . |
| 11 | Of these classes , perhaps the most significant was the one established in April 1881 in Leeds with the local missioner Joseph Moreton as the first teacher . |
| 12 | Establish day care as the first phase building project . |
| 13 | Hank paid five dollars from his paper money as the first month 's rent , and , later that day , he and several of his friends pushed a dowager of a car round from his back lane , where it had been dumped by a tow truck , into the Dawsons ' garage . |
| 14 | Of course you are still bound to make ends meet , but you no longer have to make all your decisions in terms of money profit as the first requirement . |
| 15 | Present Laughter would have made theatre history as the first production to go from Belfast into the West End . |
| 16 | It is described by wildlife experts as the first animal to benefit from the collapse of communism . |
| 17 | In it he arrived , among many other discoveries , at the law of inertia later used by Isaac Newton as the first law of motion , at the parabola as the path of a projectile , at the relationships between distance and velocity and between distance and time , and at the continuity of acceleration . |
| 18 | Later Turkish historians are thus almost universally in accord in naming Molla Fenari as the first Mufti and — on the assumption that Rifat Efendi 's version simply results from a slip which Ahmed Refik has not noticed in placing his appointment in the time of Murad II , with some historians giving the date 828/1424–5 for the appointment . |
| 19 | It has been shown above that the accepted Turkish tradition dates the beginning of the Muftilik in the time of Murad II ( 1421–51 ) and names Molla Fenari as the first Mufti . |
| 20 | Network General Corp , Menlo Park , California has enhanced its Distributed Sniffer System , and added Expert Analysis capabilities as the first phase of the product 's development path . |
| 21 | Percy Pilcher , a naval architect at Glasgow University was experimenting with a powered glider and , but for the tragic accident that ended his life , would have entered the history books as the first man to fly an engine-driven aircraft . |
| 22 | Robert Cooper has donated a magnificent Normead heifer as the first prize to the draw , and Dalgety Agriculture sponsored all the printing and promotional costs along with Herdwise , which is supplying the second prize of 10 semen straws . |
| 23 | In introducing General Secretary , Ciaran Ryan as the first speaker on behalf of the Association , Congress President , Tom Douglas said ‘ Our next speaker is from a new affiliate to Congress . |
| 24 | The rapid growth of adult missions and societies prompted a few determined men led by James Paul to found the National Deaf and Dumb Society in 1879 , with James Paul as the first secretary . |
| 25 | 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 . |