Example sentences of "[adj] as the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her monograph , The Metabolism of Fat , published in 1943 as the first of Methuen 's monographs in biochemistry , summarized her views on the field , in which she was by then a recognized authority . |
| 2 | As therapists , we have over the years become suspicious of the adult patient who too openly and easily confesses incestuous experience , putting this as the first and foremost cause of all their problems . |
| 3 | Lotus views this as the first step in providing intergroup capabilities for applications like spreadsheets . |
| 4 | The therapist believes this problem is maintained independently of the client 's other problems and thus accepts this as the first goal for therapy . |
| 5 | Morant and Newman hoped gradually to develop a comprehensive free health service for children administered by local Medical Officers of Health , seeing this as the first step towards a free health service for all . |
| 6 | It is tempting to see this as the first occasion when the judges insisted on independence on this principle . |
| 7 | France , Germany and several other members , stressing its ( more active ) peacemaking potential , saw this as the first major concrete step towards developing the WEU as the " defence component of the European union " as outlined in the Maastricht treaty [ see p. 38658 ] . |
| 8 | ‘ The chairman has received many letters , as have I , from MPs and people in the local community who see this as the first need for the force . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ The chairman has received many letters , as have I , from MPs and people in the local community who see this as the first need for the force . ’ |
| 10 | The small independent bakers , already affected by the supermarket bakeries , see this as the last straw . |
| 11 | Harris came to York in 1963 as the first lecturer appointed to the English Department by the founding professor Philip Brockbank . |
| 12 | payable as the first instalment , as when buying on hire-purchase . |
| 13 | Yet the caress of his meaning was delicate as the first green fronds of spring . |
| 14 | The senior component of what became The East Surrey Regiment under the 1881 Cardwell Reforms had been raised in Huntingdonshire in 1702 as The 31st Regiment of Foot . |
| 15 | Any software claiming to be pan-European obviously needs to comply with major accounting standards such as the 4th and 7th EC directives , for example , and would benefit from links to online databases providing up-to-date information on legislation across the EC . |
| 16 | Rehearsals for important premieres , such as the first Polish performance of Shostakovich 's Fourteenth Symphony at an inaugural concert of the Warsaw Autumn , could take many weeks . |
| 17 | Even before the eighteenth century there existed various forms of development around the old Chiswick Parish Church of St. Nicholas , such as the first Elizabethan ‘ Burlington Arms ’ ; Vine House ; Pages Yard-Ferry House-Brampton House and the cottages in Fishermen 's Place , also fronting the river , Bedford House ( which included Eynham House ) , Said House and Cottages ; Thames View ; Lingard House ; Red Lion House ; Prospect Cottages also Walpole House , where Barbara Villiers , Lady Castlemain , created Duchess of Cleveland in 1670 , lived in her later years . |
| 18 | ACTIVITY 1 15–20 mins Identify a small group of clients , such as the first six people you saw in your last day 's community care , the first six people attending your outpatients ' clinic , or six individuals in a bay in your ward . |
| 19 | To do the line justice , it would take up the next six issues , so I intend to show you only some of the more interesting such as the First Class blank Privilege Ticket . |
| 20 | Surely there were many which went at a slow tempo , such as the first Beethoven Modlinger Dance I mentioned in my original article , the rapid-fire tattoos of its French horns ensuring a slow pace . |
| 21 | He also produced work of startling modernity such as the second catalogue for the furrier Samuel of 1928 which uses a disjointed photo-montage style to produce startlingly Surrealist images accompanied by brief , enigmatic texts on the facing pages . |
| 22 | Let us note , too , that coming as Marx did to English economics after he had studied Hegel 's philosophy of history , he could come with a mind predisposed to fit the first into a grand dialectical scheme such as the second propounded . |
| 23 | Even in France soldiers often received high diplomatic appointments , especially under a regime in which military influences were strong , such as the Second Empire . |
| 24 | Royal taxation usually had to be for the defence of the realm , but this was no longer interpreted with the narrow precision attempted by Winchelsey , and clerical objections and conditions more often turned upon other considerations : redress of grievances , exemption from lay burdens such as the ninth and purveyances , or simple impoverishment . |
| 25 | Before the new holes were commissioned the best had to be made of the shortened course , such as the 2nd also playing as the 17th . |
| 26 | And even a figure like John Butt ( Professor of English at King 's College , University of Durham ( Newcastle ) ) , associated with the Review of English Studies since the 19305 , and by 1951 its editor , favours Leavis 's suggestion for studying a " phase of civilization " , such as the seventeenth century , rather than relying on " factual information " . |
| 27 | In prestige arrondissements of Paris , such as the 6th , 7th , 16th , Neuilly and Le Marais — the equivalent of London 's Kensington , Chelsea or Knightsbridge — you can expect to pay £200,000-£400,000 for a good two- or three-bedroom flat , she says . |
| 28 | Given their massive resources , DG also has the knack of marking special occasions such as the 150th Anniversary of the Vienna Philharmonic . |
| 29 | Thus , for example , Article 99 of the EEC Treaty provides that provisions for the harmonization of tax legislation , such as the Sixth VAT Directive , are to be adopted by the Council , acting unanimously on a proposal from the Commission and after consulting the European Parliament . |
| 30 | Since I have , on the one hand , declined to accept that non-recipients such as the third , fourth and fifth defendants are necessarily free from liability under section 6(2) and section 61(1) and , on the other hand , have criticised the form of order sought by the S.I.B . |