Example sentences of "[verb] as the first [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In so far as it explained his personal ideology to the French people , it may be regarded as the first speech of de Gaulle the politician , as opposed to de Gaulle the symbol . |
| 2 | It had referred to Mr Donovan because he had been targeted as the first victim of the campaign in Britain . |
| 3 | It had referred to Mr Donovan because he had been targeted as the first victim of the campaign in Britain . |
| 4 | Edward I , with his eye on a complete subjugation of Scotland on the lines of his conquest of Wales , pressed for the marriage of the child to his son Edward , later installed as the first Prince of Wales . |
| 5 | The Biblical Commission responded with a letter which came to serve as the first part of an encyclical , Divino Afflante Spiritu , published by Pius XII on 30 September 1943 . |
| 6 | In the post-1945 period , national liberation has been seen as the first line of rebellion against capitalism . |
| 7 | The police is still seen as the first line of defence , but in recent years there has been increased co-operation between the police and the military , as in the joint exercises conducted at Heathrow in preparation for possible terrorist incidents . |
| 8 | The media often presented Jones ' results as supporting those of the two chemists whereas in due course , if not already , his work will be seen as the first refutation of the some of their claims ; his neutrons were orders of magnitude below theirs and he never made any direct measurements of heat . |
| 9 | Aries is always classed as the first constellation of the Zodiac , though by now the First Point of Aries ( the position where the ecliptic cuts the equator ) has shifted into the adjacent constellation of Pisces . |
| 10 | There could be no thought of undermining the class which served as the first line of resistance to smouldering peasant insubordination . |
| 11 | Magellan is to be ranked as the first navigator of ancient or modern times , and his voyage is the greatest single human achievement on the sea . |
| 12 | There were plenty of thrills and spills as the first round of the East Senior knockout cup got underway . |
| 13 | To commemorate the anniversary , the HGO organized a major press junket : critics from all around the opera world came to Houston to interview David Gockley and see three new productions by his company : the world première of a new opera by Robert Moran , the American première of Robert Wilson 's production of Parsifal , and a new version of André Grétry 's Zémire et Azor , billed as the first revival of the opera in the United States since 1794 . |
| 14 | ( This is known as the first set of access conditions ) . |
| 15 | Erm It 's now thr nearly three years since management procedures were introduced as the first stage of our aspirations to become quality assured . |
| 16 | On going down from Newnham , she was appointed as the first principal of Cambridge Training College , formed with the purpose of training university women to teach in girls ' secondary schools . |
| 17 | Within the next 18 months to two years , this will change as the first wave of line cards are installed that support ISDN directly , with the result that residential customers should get a more enthusiastic response when they enquire about the technology . |
| 18 | It saw the laying to rest of the old war-torn , Dark-age Europe and the emergence of a distinct and purposeful civilization , which we now recognize as the first flowering of the Middle Ages . |
| 19 | To generate all candidate strings , begin from the start node of the graph ( * ) , take the first route from it ( i.e. the first of the forward pointers ) , and note the letter at the node reached as the first letter of the candidate string . |
| 20 | By the age of 25 or so the oiliness should be settling down but you may find yourself with a new problem : laughter and frown lines must finally be acknowledged as the first signs of an ageing skin . |
| 21 | This can now be identified as the first signs of the creation of a source of ‘ goodness ’ additional to that due to the ruthless forces of the struggle for survival . |
| 22 | This immediate post-war shortage ushered in what may be identified as the first phase of the emergence of headhunting . |
| 23 | I think as the first part of their trade campaign . |
| 24 | Matthew Maynard should make the ‘ A ’ tour as the first step of his return to Test status . |
| 25 | It ran as the first service of the day with one brake coach and was full to capacity on both operating days . |
| 26 | On 21 December , de Gaulle was elected as the first President of the Fifth Republic , with 78.5 per cent of the votes cast by an electoral college of 80,000 " notables " . |
| 27 | There might seem to be a number of inherent problems in producing a journal on British Surrealism , namely that the possibility of live interviews will diminish as the first generation of these artists and writers die off in the next few years ; secondly , there seems to be a tendency on the part of those who produce surrealist literature to make it look surrealist , although the rather bitty appearance of the present journal is probably as much to do with its very low budget ( a small grant from the University of London ) as with its artistic affiliations . |
| 28 | He was also a prime mover in the bid to get better pay for West Indian cricketers , putting in much work as the first secretary of the West Indian Players ' Association . |
| 29 | Inside Out , hailed as the First Biennial Of Contemporary Northern Photography , the exhibition has work by Neville Blaszk , Simon Dent , Mike Golding , Lynne Otter , Kate Tregaskis and Geoff Weston , all of whom live and work in the Northern Arts region ( until 22 Feb ) . |
| 30 | Inside Out , hailed as the First Biennial of Contemporary Northern Photography , the exhibition has work by Neville Blaszk , Simon Dent , Mike Golding , Lynne Otter , Kate Tregaskis and Geoff Watson , all of whom live and work in the Northern Arts region ( until 3 Mar ) . |