Example sentences of "[adj] as the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | payable as the first instalment , as when buying on hire-purchase . |
| 2 | Yet the caress of his meaning was delicate as the first green fronds of spring . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | all horribly romantic as the first , |
| 8 | — Odour potent as the first |
| 9 | Digital Equipment Corp has signed Lechmere Inc as the first independent direct retailer for its line of printers for MS-DOS and the Mac . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |