Example sentences of "[adj] as [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | As there may be in excess of 1000 mouth to feed , then it can prove difficult to keep up a constant supply of live foods and the authors have found that dried food is adequate as a first food . |
| 2 | In this context the Liberal reforms were acceptable as a first step towards greater , Labour-controlled , changes in the future . |
| 3 | His advice to companies would be to try to make the costs of all types of accidents visible as a first step to targeting prevention , and the obvious way would be to put down the costs on to the already established cost centres within a company . |
| 4 | payable as the first instalment , as when buying on hire-purchase . |
| 5 | Yet the caress of his meaning was delicate as the first green fronds of spring . |
| 6 | There seems to be nowhere where we could start , no sentence whose meaning is , as it were , self-contained enough to be learnable as a first step towards learning the rest . |
| 7 | And as their noise surged , discordant as the first squall of wind on a calm day , Rain Morgan sensed a figure in the row behind her . |
| 8 | Among the pioneers teaching before Pavlova 's arrival , the most important was Helen Webb ( whose father was famous as the first man to swim the English Channel ) . |
| 9 | That was a quarrel which went back to at least 720 BC , when the athlete Orsippos of Megara , more famous as the first man to run nude in the Olympic Games , ‘ freed ’ some borderland from the Corinthians ( Hicks and Hill , no. 1 ) . |
| 10 | It shows the influence of A. W. N. Pugin [ q.v. ] and was important as the first popular book on design to show readers how to create designs themselves . |
| 11 | all horribly romantic as the first , |
| 12 | Moira , of Town Farm , Middlesbrough , is well-known as a first aid instructor and has trained many people . |
| 13 | Careful observation and recording of events are necessary as a first step towards diagnosing the problem . |
| 14 | — Odour potent as the first |
| 15 | Digital Equipment Corp has signed Lechmere Inc as the first independent direct retailer for its line of printers for MS-DOS and the Mac . |
| 16 | Unix International last week described SunSoft Inc as the first reference technology supplier to be chosen under its new expanded technology selection process ( UX No 422 ) . |