Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] as [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | October 27th , 1984 , was ringed around on my calendars as the FIRST Hampshire Rally . |
| 2 | I was there forty years , right , I 've seen every accident on that bend , I 've had my house as a first aid post a dozen times , until we did something in this committee to sort that corner out |
| 3 | Having formed the first phrase and its complement as the first sentence of our theme , we must turn to the problem of what to do in the second sentence . |
| 4 | Environmentalists dubbed it a failure for this reason , but acknowledged its importance as the first occasion on which all major world governments had agreed that global warming was a reality . |
| 5 | However , Jane felt that many of the problems highlighted by the videos were a result of her inexperience as a first year teacher : |
| 6 | They were in irresistible form on Saturday , their status as the First Division 's leading goalscorers providing ample evidence of attacking flair allied to their now restored traditional defensive solidity , and thrilled the country 's biggest crowd of the day — an impressive 36,016 — with football of the highest quality . |
| 7 | By the Welland St. Wilfrid built St. Leonard 's Priory , a masterpiece of Anglo-Saxon architecture , befitting its status as the first religious house in all Mercia . |
| 8 | They have become coordinators largely because they have established their reputations as the first to counteract those years of neglect , but they have themselves suffered more from that neglect than the new generation of community language teachers which is at last emerging . |
| 9 | We appreciate what a stumbling block this can be and will lend you 100% as a first time buyer . |
| 10 | The BDDA 's farewell gesture to him was his election as the first Honourary Vice-president . |
| 11 | He chose a sample of towns for his study as a first stage , then selected smaller districts within these , and so on . |
| 12 | Surtees was not content to end his career as the first dual world champion ; he wanted more . |
| 13 | Changes of climate have also been investigated during the historic time scale when a range of historical techniques have been utilized , including diaries and records together with sedimentary evidence , and information from faunal remains , archaeology , tree rings and ocean deposits , and G. Manley , a geographer at London University prior to his appointment as the first Professor of Environmental Sciences at Lancaster University , was one who researched many of the obscure details of climatic fluctuations in Western Europe ( e.g. Manley , 1952 ) . |
| 14 | Abul Ahsan ( a member of the Bangladesh foreign service ) completed his tenure as the first Secretary-General of SAARC at the end of October 1989 ; his successor , K. K. Bhargava ( India ) , took up the post at the Secretariat in Kathmandu , the capital of Nepal . |
| 15 | The brilliant Scot left world title chasers Carlos Sainz , Didier Auriol and Juha Kankkunen in his wake as a first British win for 16 years became a real possibility . |
| 16 | The Führer , too , had demonstratively donned field-grey at the start of the war , to emphasize his unity with his troops and his image as the first soldier of the Reich , whereas the unpopular Party hacks were often seen as shirkers , avoiding their duty at the Front . |
| 17 | ‘ We 're trying to package that with Sony , using our anthology as the first example of the technology . |