Example sentences of "as [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The re-establishment of the Irish language as the first official language of the state became the national policy of the Irish government under de Valera and has only toned down in recent years . |
| 2 | It will be argued that when the second source is threatened as well as the first , the power to coerce can devolve on the civil sphere in a substantive way . |
| 3 | The fact of these men 's having been guided argues a body of local botanical knowledge as early as the first part of the 17th century . |
| 4 | But the stars soon lost their sheen and went out as the first strain of light eased away the darkness . |
| 5 | The alarm had been raised by two peasants who , as the first sentence of the newspaper story recounts , were walking in the park and noticed a cap lying on the ground , together with a hood and a cudgel . |
| 6 | At issue yesterday — the Sejm deputies prudently decided to adjourn their debate until Monday — as the first spoonful of the bitter economic medicine announced this week to restore a market economy ‘ in the swiftest possible way ’ . |
| 7 | Bradford 's Yorkshire Cup semi-final replay against Halifax , if it is half as good as the first game at Thrum Hall , will be the most keenly contested of tomorrow 's fixtures . |
| 8 | As the first years passed , and the courses of lectures did not have to be prepared out of nothing , he sat at the bay window in the sub-warden 's study , looking out towards the cathedral , and started to write his first book . |
| 9 | Enough if I have shown that if we care to do so , we can illustrate the second as well as the first half of what I may call the Plowden proposition . |
| 10 | The group laughed as the first strains of a Hungarian pop group wailed from the hall . |
| 11 | They had been underestimated , as the first Test proved , but the damage had been done and the attendances for the first two Tests were depressing . |
| 12 | It was then , just as the first signs of Arab flexibility appeared , that in Israel the notion took root that the renunciation of ‘ grand designs ’ was erroneous in its minimalism . |
| 13 | As far as the First Pillar — the defence of the British Isles — was concerned , the country was , paradoxically , more secure and yet more vulnerable than it had ever been . |
| 14 | The corrective that Mr Welch has prescribed is bold enough to suggest that his second decade as chief executive could be as radical as the first . |
| 15 | According to Filmer , God granted to Adam , as the first King , an absolute and total political authority which was transmitted to his heirs . |
| 16 | Smith , in his second Test , top-scored in the second innings as well as the first , but it was all totally predictable ; 150 all out left West Indies 39 to win , and less than six overs sufficed . |
| 17 | At Edgbaston , West Indies got off to a good start as the first wicket produced 34 runs in just six overs , but three fell cheaply and it was left to Logie and Hooper to make fifty apiece and give the innings its backbone . |
| 18 | Harriet Shakespeare and the policemen had begun to creep closer , ready to run as soon as the first shot was fired . |
| 19 | As the first snowdrops began to appear , his daughters picked a few to cheer their bereaved mother . |
| 20 | He was the normal minister of baptism , the president of the eucharistic assembly , ‘ blamelessly offering the gifts ’ as the first epistle of Clement put it ( before the end of the first century ) . |
| 21 | Half an hour later , her second son emerged , as strong and healthy as the first , and Pen Browning arrived two hours later to go into paroxysms of delight . |
| 22 | As the first group approached sixteen years Salah tried to get the authorities to open a branch of the primary-school teacher-training college in Huaiwiri so that the girls could continue their education without leaving home . |
| 23 | ‘ I still dropped it , just as the first shock wave struck us . |
| 24 | In 1558 , he worked up his letter into a second edition , three times as long as the first , which he certainly wrote as an outright attack ; and his portrayal of the dowager in his History of Scotland is one of hacking savagery . |
| 25 | I hope the RFU competitions committee make an urgent review of proceedings , especially as the First Division will be reduced to 10 teams for the 1993–94 season . |
| 26 | As the first results came in , so too did the first signs of a strange disruption in the space-time continuum . |
| 27 | His starting-point is La finta giardiniera which he regards , perhaps arguably , as a descendant of Richardson 's novel Pamela and also , unarguably , as the first time we hear , dramatically , Mozart 's individual voice . |
| 28 | As the first chapter states , ‘ the true challenge is for the chemist ’ , and it will be for the analytical chemist to develop reliable methods . |
| 29 | As the first major book devoted wholly to Langmuir-Blodgett ( LB ) films , this book covers virtually all aspects of the preparation , characterisation and potential applications of these molecular assemblies . |
| 30 | ‘ Three nines ’ is not uncommon : purity warranted to within 0.999 of absolute purity , with some certainty that the umpteenth consignment will be as pure as the first . |