Example sentences of "[prep] the first [noun sg] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consider using an outside potential purchaser for the first meeting as a trial run . |
| 2 | In 1944 , under the impetus of a wave of strikes in the mines , the British Trotskyist movement was united for the first time as the Revolutionary Communist Party , anticipating the imminent collapse of capitalism in the West and Stalinism in Russia . |
| 3 | ‘ Refreshing , ’ she euphemistically called the British climate she was about to face for the first time as a ‘ star ’ . |
| 4 | As Doohan built up a lead of almost seven seconds , Rainey settled for second place on his Yamaha , 12 seconds clear of third-placed Daryl Beattie , of Australia , riding a Rothmans Honda for the first time as a replacement for the injured Wayne Gardner . |
| 5 | Germany outstripped Britain for the first time as the largest contributor last year . |
| 6 | In Britain , David Lloyd George was succeeded as Prime Minister by Mr A. Bonar-Law , who headed a Conservative Government with the Labour Party for the first time as a formidable opposition . |
| 7 | I remember the excitement and relief I felt when I read it for the first time as a very young nun . |
| 8 | He was still staring at himself in the mirror , seeing himself for the first time as a man , not a boy . |
| 9 | There are promotions for David Hunt to the employment department , for Gillian Shephard to agriculture and for John Redwood , the Thatcherite and cerebral local-government minister who joins the cabinet for the first time as Welsh secretary . |
| 10 | Nor , she was sure , Bert , whom she had seen yesterday for the first time as a potentially responsible comrade . |
| 11 | The book is published now for the first time as a result of scholarly study by Steve Joshua Heims of the cybernetics group of the late 1940s . |
| 12 | It was therefore at the next Congress in August 1959 in Wiesbaden , Germany , that the BDDA participated for the first time as a member country with an official delegation of ten : Dr Eric Greenaway . |
| 13 | But most of all , they have the determination to put their name on the trophy for the first time as a tribute to club president George Blower who tragically died at the end of a league game almost four weeks ago . |
| 14 | Thus competition is singled out for the first time as the chosen mechanism for ensuring the public interest . |
| 15 | Nissan sponsored the championships for the first time as part of its community relations work . |
| 16 | Group sales exceeded £10 billion for the first time as the Group served over ten million customers each week . |
| 17 | Guatemala , receiving a one-goal handicap start , surprisingly led 5–1 at the end of the first chukka as the Argentines appeared very nervous , but they scored four goals in the second chukka and dominated the rest of the game . |
| 18 | Likewise in setting up a drama for an already excitable ten-year-old class on their chosen topic of a haunted house , I spent the whole of the first lesson as a pub proprietor refusing to show them how to find the house . |
| 19 | From the first day as a cub reporter , journalists are repeatedly told to ‘ get both sides of the story ’ . |
| 20 | Social hygiene took off in the years immediately before the First War as part of the growing debate over national health and efficiency . |
| 21 | He toured Namibia with Ireland two seasons ago , coming on in the First Test as a replacement for Simon Geoghegan . |
| 22 | Two of them came in the first half as Bolton tore Watford to shreds . |
| 23 | But it would be absurd that he should be able to plead the jury 's verdict in the first trial as a bar to the second . |
| 24 | The preoccupation with the study of artefacts in isolation has a number of causes : the need to provide a chronology ; the absence of frameworks of thought by which grave-goods might be considered in the first instance as part of a mortuary ritual ; and , particularly from the nineteenth century , obsession with artefacts . |
| 25 | The main thesis of the existentialist approach is that in order to elucidate the full significance of ontological claims conveyed by existential propositions we ought to begin by focusing attention upon the one for whom the " problem of existence " presents itself in the first instance as a problem of his own existence . |
| 26 | The decision should be made in the first instance as if it were easy to be made . |
| 27 | The deception , trick or ruse that forms the one essential element in the interaction of the fabliau characters is most frequently an impromptu action , very commonly occurring in the first instance as an example of a native cunning attributed to women , an ingenuity in lying and deceit that women have . |
| 28 | In that different method we frame our question in the first instance as a question about corporate responsibility . |
| 29 | However , X does not appear in the first place as a response to some specific stimulus ( as in the case of a reflex ) , but more or less spontaneously . |
| 30 | Next we come by logical progression to the Queen 's function as a ruler , in the first place as the fount of all honours . |