Example sentences of "[is] [verb] as the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bedford Park is regarded as the first Garden Suburb in England , and thus has an international importance , while Shaw is one of the most important architects of the Victorian period , best known as the designer of the old New Scotland Yard building on the London Embankment . |
| 2 | Ivan 's son Djuradj is honoured as the first man to introduce a printing press into the Balkans . |
| 3 | Mansion House has only 24 , but it 's seen as the first step to putting the University at the forefront of childcare provision . |
| 4 | This is seen as the first sign that Soviet nuclear scientists , who are threatened by redundancy following the disintegration of the union , will seek to sell their skills to the highest bidders . |
| 5 | A non-competitive literacy test ( in Sesotho ) is recommended to be taken at the end of the first cycle or any time thereafter prior to the final examination since mastery of literacy skills is seen as the first priority in primary school education in Lesotho — ‘ if learners are to profit from further opportunities for education in or out of school . ’ |
| 6 | But in mediaeval woodcuts , on stained-glass windows and in classical Christian art , the apple symbolizes the first sin and Eve is portrayed as the first sinner . |
| 7 | ( This is known as the first set of access conditions ) . |
| 8 | The line is touted as the first step in an aggressive effort to redesign the entire spectrum of Unisys desktop , workstation and entry-level server platforms and to accelerate its engineering , design , manufacturing and time-to-market . |
| 9 | When God is posited as the First Cause , the very ideas of cause and effect are being torn out of the context in which they properly belong , that of the perceived regularities in the world of which we are aware . |
| 10 | It is conceived as the first step towards a written constitution for the United Kingdom . |