Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | " Two policemen — Irish policemen too — dead and killed on the same day as the first sitting of the new Irish parliamentarians . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | All of these began work in the same week as the first Kindertransporte were given the go-ahead . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And the hump-backed blueness behind her spread a flat sheet of flesh as the first sunbeam touched it in the valley of shadow . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This behaved in the same way as the first unit , so I took this one back and got a third … |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . " ) |
| 22 | If such a procedure were made law , vets could well afford to offer the service at a minimal cost , if not free , at the same time as the first vaccination . |
| 23 | With much wider powers than its predecessor , the Secondary Examinations Council ( SEC ) , SEAC is also heir to the recommendations of another of the Secretary of State 's ad hoc working parties , the Task Group on Assessment and Testing ( TGAT ) which was set up at the same time as the first curriculum working groups and , like them , worked under enormous pressure to produce proposals for the assessment of the National Curriculum . |
| 24 | Finally , the Scottish Office has recently agreed that Highlands and Islands Enterprise can fund Skillstart 1 and Skillstart 2 — the preliminary awards introduced at the same time as the first general SVQs — to two points for Output Related Funding purposes . |
| 25 | The re-establishment of the Irish language as the first official language of the state became the national policy of the Irish government under de Valera and has only toned down in recent years . |
| 26 | Now consider the other half of the T-type m-derived section shown in figure 9.11(b) , which is of course just the same network as the first half already considered and shown in figure 9.11(a) but with the input and output terminals interchanged . |