Example sentences of "[noun] as [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second defendant damaged the same part of the car as the first defendant . |
| 2 | Twenty-one years after the end of the First World War the British people were subjected to a second war , which , while it produced only half as many British military casualties as the first , struck more radically at the lives of ordinary civilians . |
| 3 | Main boomed out to port , genoa to starboard , they ghosted up the smooth waters of the river like a giant white butterfly as the first grey touch of dawn lightened the sky . |
| 4 | " Two policemen — Irish policemen too — dead and killed on the same day as the first sitting of the new Irish parliamentarians . |
| 5 | BOSNIAN Serbs were reported to be poised to overrun the besieged Muslim enclaves of Srebrenica and Zepa yesterday , the same day as the first full peace talks took place . |
| 6 | He would always remember handing over the final payment , because it was on the same day as the first big aeroplane raid over London and he spent most of that night hiding under his father 's bed , with both Sal and Kitty clinging on to him for dear life . |
| 7 | She was hard to miss , even among such a handpicked collection of fruitcakes as the First Spiritualist Church . |
| 8 | At Edgbaston , West Indies got off to a good start as the first wicket produced 34 runs in just six overs , but three fell cheaply and it was left to Logie and Hooper to make fifty apiece and give the innings its backbone . |
| 9 | All of these began work in the same week as the first Kindertransporte were given the go-ahead . |
| 10 | Two alternative initiation codons are located at nucleotide positions 397 and 619 within the same open reading frame as the first ; initiation of translation from these two start signals would result in peptide chains of 571 and 497 amino acids , respectively . |
| 11 | This second type of exclamation can not be analysed in exactly the same terms as the first type , however , since the infinitive refers to an event which has already occurred and not to one whose occurrence is an object of someone 's longing or desire . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's a good thing we got that roof seen to , ’ he said , then put out his palm as the first large drops of rain began to fall . |
| 13 | The second half continued in the same exciting pattern as the first , but for all Witney 's pressure , it was Yate who took the lead . |
| 14 | And the hump-backed blueness behind her spread a flat sheet of flesh as the first sunbeam touched it in the valley of shadow . |
| 15 | The purpose of such an approach would be to demonstrate that the second language has the same potential for use as the first language , encourage learners to draw on their own experience of language by applying familiar procedures to the interpretation of second language use , and so to teach the second language system not as an end in itself but as a resource for the achievement of meaning . |
| 16 | ‘ Dalian is excellent in one-on-one situations as the first goal showed , ’ said Atkinson . |
| 17 | The fashion of railway excursions became very popular over the next 100 years , spreading throughout Britain and far beyond , and it is seldom realised that this leisure pursuit began in Ayrshire , with Troon and Barassie as the first seaside resorts for railway passengers . |
| 18 | It will be available to PowerPC users as the first systems start emerging over the next two quarters . |
| 19 | The trouble was that the pile of things they had put aside to back in the cupboards again was almost exactly the same size as the first pile . |
| 20 | Routine use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors as the first line treatment of depressive illness may greatly increase cost with only questionable benefit . |
| 21 | It is not possible to match a large defined pattern in the normal way ( page 32 ) with this seam as the first row of stitching is carried out with wrong sides facing . |
| 22 | Over the next ten years , financed by such wealthy aristocrats as the first Duke of Westminster and the first Baron Mount-Temple [ qq.v . ] , |
| 23 | This behaved in the same way as the first unit , so I took this one back and got a third … |
| 24 | In their original context both stories had a different significance , but it was as impossible for fourteenth century Christians to experience the Christian revelation in the same way as the first Christians as it is for us today . |
| 25 | The cables are worked in the same way as the first sample but after the initial six rows , the four stitches at the left are crossed , with two-over-two stitches to the right , then after another five rows , the four stitches at the right are crossed with two-over-two stitches to the left . |
| 26 | Fold the second strip of paper in exactly the same way as the first , but instead of pencilling down the folds , cut down only the folds shown with a black line in the diagram below . |
| 27 | Other pixies can be made in the same way as the first , if liked — or perhaps you might like to add some yellow-eyed green caterpillars to sit on top of the toadstool . |
| 28 | But by far his main task on this story was the designing of the Mechonoids , or Mechons as the first scripts called them . |
| 29 | The infradental papillae are block-like usually contiguous lying above the broad rectangular teeth , but in smaller specimens these papillae may lie on the same level as the first tooth and be separated by it . |
| 30 | Her opening words , which echo a pair of lines in Chaucer 's first fabliau in the sequence of the Canterbury Tales , the Miller 's Tale ( I : 3768 – 9 ) , invite a dialogue charged with sexual connotations , not only in the obvious case of " " ryse " " , but also in the detectable reference to a conventional love-sickness : The monk 's answer immediately confirms the sexual topic of the dialogue , and dispenses with any euphemistic disguises : This rapid movement to a contextually surprising level of familiarity on the topic of sexual intimacy is paralleled in the French fabliau Auburee , where the old bawd , Auburee , in procuring a young wife for a besotted admirer , visits the wife and moves smartly into the bedroom , declaring : ( " I should certainly like to see your bed : then I should know for certain if you lie in the same splendour as the first wife did . " ) |