Example sentences of "[noun prp] as [art] first [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In it he arrived , among many other discoveries , at the law of inertia later used by Isaac Newton as the first law of motion , at the parabola as the path of a projectile , at the relationships between distance and velocity and between distance and time , and at the continuity of acceleration . |
| 2 | Magnus Magnusson , TV presenter , president of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds , chair of the Ancient Monuments Board for Scotland and currently chair of the Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland , will be taking on the most demanding environmental job in Scotland as the first chair of the new agency . |
| 3 | Even so , some medieval documents treat 1 January as the first day of the year of grace . |
| 4 | Yet neither side , partly because of the very existence of the truce , partly because of its own domestic divisions ( which were becoming more serious in France as the first decade of the new century progressed ) wished to raise fundamental issues . |
| 5 | Inspired by his uncle , Miescher went , at the age of 25 , to Tübingen as the first pupil of Felix Hoppe-Seyler ( 1825–1895 ) , the young professor of the then new science of physiological chemistry . |
| 6 | An office was rented in St Albans and a small staff was appointed , with Michael Hardman as the first editor of publications , responsible for both What 's Brewing and the new and immediately successful Good Beer Guide , which listed all the known outlets for real ale . |