Example sentences of "[prep] as the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do yeah absolutely as as as the first few times we did it you know . |
| 2 | A humourless man is one whose muscles of humour have fallen into disuse and have petrified ; he is also an uncreative man for humour may be thought of as the first rung of the creative ladder . |
| 3 | One way of viewing these results is to suggest that what determines use of the passive rather than the active is selection of the acted-upon as the first noun to be mentioned . |
| 4 | This , incidentally , is officially referred to as the first launch of the programme although it was the second . |
| 5 | These are referred to as the first , second , third and fourth bond dissociation enthalpies respectively . |
| 6 | To overcome this problem , you should ALWAYS include a line similar to as the FIRST line of any error handling routine . |