Example sentences of "[vb pp] as the [num ord] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Miller , the son of a Jamaican father and English mother , aroused interest by being mooted as the first black player to represent England . |
| 2 | The Republic of Indonesia comprises mainly some 13,700 islands known until 1949 as the Netherlands East Indies ; since 1976 it has also included East Timor ( when the latter was effectively annexed as the 27th Indonesian province after the withdrawal in 1975 of Portuguese troops , although this act has never been officially recognized by the UN ) . |
| 3 | Indeed , he participates so actively that he is apparently involved in the stoning to death of Stephen , officially regarded as the first Christian martyr ( although Stephen would have seen himself , of course , as a pious Jew ) . |
| 4 | El Salvador was included as the 102nd contracting party to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) in an official list released on May 24 . |
| 5 | Chevenement enjoyed 18 months ' political success , during which time he did well enough to be tipped as the next prime minister . |
| 6 | Already tipped as the next major band to emerge from the North West , they play Cambridge Junction on November 26 , then Leeds Warehouse 27 , Newcastle Riverside 28 , Dundee Bar Chevrolet 29 , Glasgow King Tut 's Wah Wah Hut 30 , Norwich Waterfront December 5 , Portsmouth Polytechnic 7 , Sheffield Leadmill 8 , Liverpool Polytechnic 9 and London Ladbroke Grove Subterania 10 . |
| 7 | Already tipped as the next major band to emerge from the North West , they play Cambridge Junction on November 26 , then Leeds Warehouse 27 , Newcastle Riverside 28 , Dundee Bar Chevrolet 29 , Glasgow King Tut 's Wah Wah Hut 30 , Norwich Waterfront December 5 , Portsmouth Polytechnic 7 , Sheffield Leadmill 8 , Liverpool Polytechnic 9 and London Ladbroke Grove Subterania 10 . |
| 8 | ‘ It was built as the first main processing plant to support the basic nuclear industry of the country and , of course , it has also processed fuel from Japan and Italy . |
| 9 | Only in this case Italians do not want to stop the flood — on the contrary , it is seen as the first real chance to clean out the corruption which is endemic in the system . |
| 10 | To return to our comparison with the EEC , economic integration in the western half of Europe is seen as the first tentative step to a political union which many pay lip service to and few take seriously . |
| 11 | Pearson is seen as the first British director to be sacrificed on the altar of his art . |
| 12 | ‘ Reciprocal altruism ’ is envisaged as the second main form of social behaviour . |
| 13 | In 1981 Bangladesh 's estimated population of 90,630,000 people meant that it was ranked as the eighth largest country in the world ( by population ) , and the fifth largest developing country . |
| 14 | When reading this chapter , remember that not merely is NSE the largest of BR 's businesses but in 1989 ranked as the 106th largest business of every kind in Britain . |
| 15 | Gestational age was assessed as the last completed week of pregnancy . |
| 16 | This week , Joy Francis investigates the first category of elder abuse : physical abuse and physical neglect ( see page 18 ) while Mervyn Eastman , recognised as the first social worker to highlight elder abuse , examines the problems of defining elder abuse ( see page 20 ) . |
| 17 | A quota sale by Aberdeen & Northern Marts , originally billed as the first national sale , will not be held until quota transfer forms are issued . |
| 18 | What is billed as the First Green Consumer Exhibition opens its doors at The Royal Horticultural Halls between 24 and 28 May . |
| 19 | Delivery of RAF Spitfires to the Mediterranean by the Wasp has been cited as the first large-scale act of co-operation between British and American forces during World War Two . |
| 20 | She held posts in Northumberland and Dundee before being appointed as the first educational psychologist in Dumbarton . |
| 21 | In 1970 he was appointed as the first honorary consul in Scotland for the republic of Turkey , a post in which his understanding and knowledge of the country was of great help to those in need . |
| 22 | In the Administration formed by John Major after the General Election in April 1992 , a solicitor , John Taylor , was appointed as the first Parliamentary Secretary to the Lord Chancellor 's Department . |
| 23 | Although Stephen 's older son , who succeeded him , was crowned as the first Serbian king by a representative of Pope Honorius III in 1217 , the allegiance of the Serbs to the Eastern Church was not affected . |
| 24 | President Mobutu of Zaire has publicly objected to not being acknowledged as the seventh richest man in the world . |
| 25 | Initially N is taken as the first partial remainder . |
| 26 | According to a recent Hollywood Reporter piece , the Runt is currently labelless but has been working on a project which has been hailed as the first interactive album . |
| 27 | The USSR Supreme Soviet on May 16 passed what was described as the first unclassified legislation regulating the state security services . |
| 28 | Conversely , to enter the chemical laboratory envisaged in 1606 by Andreas Libavius — a respectable Lutheran humanist , critic of the Paracelsians , and author of what has been described as the first chemical textbook — would be to enter an open house in which the products of the furnace were investigated with a sense of responsibility for the welfare of one 's fellow men . |
| 29 | Iona Technologies Ltd will unveil Orbix — described as the first full implementation of the Common Object Request Broker Architecture — at the Object World trade show in June . |
| 30 | Iona Technologies Ltd will unveil Orbix — described as the first full implementation of the Common Object Request Broker Architecture — at the Object World trade show in June . |