Example sentences of "[verb] as the first " 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 | Ivan 's son Djuradj is honoured as the first man to introduce a printing press into the Balkans . |
| 3 | Bedford Park is regarded as the first Garden Suburb in England , and thus has an international importance , while Shaw is one of the most important architects of the Victorian period , best known as the designer of the old New Scotland Yard building on the London Embankment . |
| 4 | Tyrothricin can reasonably be regarded as the first antibiotic to be established as a therapeutic substance . |
| 5 | This contribution to the accumulating ‘ goodness ’ may be regarded as the first which is not due to the ruthless survival laws which belong to the second period of this book . |
| 6 | It was not the first African paper , although nowadays some Tanzanians think that it was ; nevertheless it is the only one whose direct descendants are still in existence , and may be regarded as the first successful , viable paper ( that term has to be used in a relative sense ) edited and produced by Africans . |
| 7 | The German naturalist Ernst Heinrich Haeckel ( 1834–1919 ) is generally regarded as the first to put forward the idea that these changes in the embryo retrace our evolutionary history . |
| 8 | He may with good reason be regarded as the first of that long line of professional civil servants who did more than any others to make and destroy the medieval Church : they were professional administrators , equipped to forward the interests of government not by main force but by negotiation amidst the intricate issues of law and theology ; men of international standing , retaining the respect of their opponents , and not too hatefully or too personally involved in the cause which they were required to maintain . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | Walpole , who has been traditionally and perhaps wrongly regarded as the first British Prime Minister , always took pains to deny that he occupied such a position . |
| 11 | And you , my dear Mary , respected though your name is — you are insufficiently regarded as the first of that invaluable breed , preceeding them by at least one whole generation ! |
| 12 | The move was widely regarded as the first step towards full normalization of diplomatic relations , which had been suspended after the communist victory in the Vietnam war in 1975 . |
| 13 | In so far as it explained his personal ideology to the French people , it may be regarded as the first speech of de Gaulle the politician , as opposed to de Gaulle the symbol . |
| 14 | The Blackpool Tramway is rightly claimed as the first and last street tramway and unique in many other ways . |
| 15 | It had referred to Mr Donovan because he had been targeted as the first victim of the campaign in Britain . |
| 16 | It had referred to Mr Donovan because he had been targeted as the first victim of the campaign in Britain . |
| 17 | Edward I , with his eye on a complete subjugation of Scotland on the lines of his conquest of Wales , pressed for the marriage of the child to his son Edward , later installed as the first Prince of Wales . |
| 18 | Follow Me , which is also mainly a vehicle for language items , is different in that some sections are designed as the first introduction to a language item . |
| 19 | In some operations , such as the logical operations , add and multiplication of equal-length operands , it is irrelevant which operand is considered as the first . |
| 20 | It clearly ranks as the first written literature of any consequence . |
| 21 | Corgi 's answer to All the Sweet Promises , a long , absorbing , atmospheric Second World War tale of four different girls meeting as the first of the WAAFS and contributing courageously to the fight . |
| 22 | ‘ Down ! ’ he commanded as the first police car pulled up outside the Kurhotel entrance , its lights illuminating the car-park . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | Amateur Champion Stephen Dundas was only named as the first reserve … |
| 25 | Wirgman influenced the development of Western-style painting in Japan by serving as the first foreign teacher to artists painting in the Western style . |
| 26 | Chorleton 's replacement , about whom little , not even his name , is known , suffered as the first Master to be subjected to the complaints of the local community , expressed formally to the Goldsmiths by William Davenport of Bramhall in April 1545 . |
| 27 | The Product Safety Enforcement Forum of Europe ( Prosafe ) was also told that another 14 million are seriously injured as the first steps towards an Interpol-style consumer European protection agency were made yesterday . |
| 28 | The Biblical Commission responded with a letter which came to serve as the first part of an encyclical , Divino Afflante Spiritu , published by Pius XII on 30 September 1943 . |
| 29 | The Government 's insistence that the Channel tunnel rail link be privately-financed is being seen as the first stage in a longer term plan to privatise the entire British Rail network . |
| 30 | ELECTRONIC tagging of remand prisoners , seen as the first stage towards plans to introduce community-based punishments , was attacked by probation officers yesterday . |