Example sentences of "was [verb] as [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A small sponge filter was placed in the tank and infusoria was fed as a first food . |
| 2 | The South-West — whose Bath-Bristol-Gloucester resources have appeared in the past to resemble rugby 's equivalent of the Bermuda Triangle — are set on improving their disappointing Divisional Championship record , and their success against Leinster in Dublin last week was seen as a first step in the right direction . |
| 3 | This was seen as a first step towards integrating the Soviet economy with international financial institutions , although this did not permit Soviet participation in GATT 's current multilateral Uruguay Round of trade discussions . |
| 4 | The CP acceptance of the offer was seen as a first step to its entering the CODESA process . |
| 5 | For the pacifists of the ILP , however , the Memorandum was seen as a first stage in the creation of a new diplomacy from below ; ‘ our own proclamations … our own diplomacy … our own international meetings ’ , as MacDonald had said at the Leeds Convention . |
| 6 | The Commander of the Air Force since 1979 , Gen. Juan Rafael Bustillo , was appointed military attaché to Israel at the beginning of January 1990 in what was seen as the first step in reducing the power of senior right-wing officers . |
| 7 | The signature of a declaration on relations between the two countries was seen as the first step towards a future inter-state treaty . |
| 8 | Furthermore , staining could not be observed when the solution of purified primary antibody absorbed with PT-gliadin was used as the first layer ( figure not shown ) . |
| 9 | This was the first official Israeli representation in China and was viewed as the first step towards the establishment of diplomatic relations . |
| 10 | On going down from Newnham , she was appointed as the first principal of Cambridge Training College , formed with the purpose of training university women to teach in girls ' secondary schools . |
| 11 | John Welsby was appointed as the first Director , Provincial , and he set about evaluating the sources of the sector 's costs . |
| 12 | I believe it was canvassed as a first stage towards total ‘ Danu-isation ’ of the conflict , internalisation of the war . |
| 13 | On 21 December , de Gaulle was elected as the first President of the Fifth Republic , with 78.5 per cent of the votes cast by an electoral college of 80,000 " notables " . |
| 14 | After the revolution , in 1923 , Moscow River Yacht Club challenged the Workers Fitness Club for what was recorded as the first rugby encounter in the history of Soviet sport . |
| 15 | The agreement was described as the first US arms sale to a former Warsaw Pact country . |
| 16 | Position one was chosen as the first cell in the vertical column at the crypt orifice ( Fig 2 ) as a reference point for the computer programme . |