Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] as the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Young men who take clerical work as the first step in a management career can be considered middle class . |
| 2 | The control experiments included both use of a non-immune serum as the first layer and staining with conjugate alone . |
| 3 | Fluorescence was not detected in control experiments , which included use of a non-immune serum as the first layer or incubation with fluorescein isothiocyanate conjugate alone . |
| 4 | He said about a , a free gift as the first thing and then he said about made enquiries of others which I thought was almost er er a , a way there of saying well , you know , oth other people more or less recommend Friends Provident . |
| 5 | ‘ There was a free holiday as the first prize . |
| 6 | And despite her best entreaties , this Woking housewife achieved instant fame as the first person to miss the deadline for the much-hyped water offer . |
| 7 | Much Third World interest has been focused on this part of the convention , giving it a disproportionate importance as the first evidence of a new international economic order . |
| 8 | For this method use an unlabelled antibody as the first layer and proceed as in ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) above . |
| 9 | But Colin Young , then managing director of Lawrie and Symington , had negotiated a tough deal as the first company to sign an EASE franchise in early 1990 . |
| 10 | Vitamin A has two main effects on the immune system — enhancement of non-specific immunity by maintaining the physical and biological integrity of epithelial tissue as the first barrier to infection , and increasing the effectiveness of the immune response to infection once the epithelial barrier has been breached . |
| 11 | There are success stories of companies which have used this unlisted market as the first step to the big-time , but too many have remained stuck with a quotation but no business in their shares . |
| 12 | Griffiths went down in Welsh history as the first person to be sent off for kicking one of his own players . |
| 13 | On March 7 , the Group of 12 ( a newly formed coalition of the country 's main opposition parties , ranging from communists to conservatives ) issued a joint statement calling upon the populace to rise up against Avril and force him to hand over power to an interim civilian administration as the first step towards the holding of free elections . |
| 14 | If you w u unfortunately we did n't look at the financial commentary as the first item . |
| 15 | On March 14th , at Dunkeld House Hotel , CCG held an historic two day conference and seminar for directors and senior management as the first step in the launch of CCG 's Total Quality Management strategy which will effect all of us — very much for the better . |
| 16 | But on the planet Kembel , Space Security agent Bret Vyon has unearthed evidence that the Daleks plan to attack Earth and acquire the Solar System as the first move in their overall ambition to rule the entire Universe . |