Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the first [noun sg] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | But most of all , they have the determination to put their name on the trophy for the first time as a tribute to club president George Blower who tragically died at the end of a league game almost four weeks ago . |
| 2 | In that different method we frame our question in the first instance as a question about corporate responsibility . |
| 3 | Consider using an outside potential purchaser for the first meeting as a trial run . |
| 4 | Nissan sponsored the championships for the first time as part of its community relations work . |
| 5 | Likewise in setting up a drama for an already excitable ten-year-old class on their chosen topic of a haunted house , I spent the whole of the first lesson as a pub proprietor refusing to show them how to find the house . |
| 6 | But it would be absurd that he should be able to plead the jury 's verdict in the first trial as a bar to the second . |
| 7 | There are promotions for David Hunt to the employment department , for Gillian Shephard to agriculture and for John Redwood , the Thatcherite and cerebral local-government minister who joins the cabinet for the first time as Welsh secretary . |
| 8 | As Doohan built up a lead of almost seven seconds , Rainey settled for second place on his Yamaha , 12 seconds clear of third-placed Daryl Beattie , of Australia , riding a Rothmans Honda for the first time as a replacement for the injured Wayne Gardner . |
| 9 | Germany outstripped Britain for the first time as the largest contributor last year . |
| 10 | Guatemala , receiving a one-goal handicap start , surprisingly led 5–1 at the end of the first chukka as the Argentines appeared very nervous , but they scored four goals in the second chukka and dominated the rest of the game . |
| 11 | In Britain , David Lloyd George was succeeded as Prime Minister by Mr A. Bonar-Law , who headed a Conservative Government with the Labour Party for the first time as a formidable opposition . |