Example sentences of "[noun] as the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trouble for the Tory whips , and for such organisers of backbench opinion as the Chairman of the 1922 Committee , Cranley Onslow , was that far too many Conservative contenders appeared : Peter Brooke , the former Ulster Secretary ; Terence Higgins , a minister as long ago as Ted Heath 's government , and chairman of the Treasury Select Committee ; Sir Giles Shaw , another officer of the '22 ; Paul Channon , another former cabinet minister ; Dame Janet Fookes , some Tories ' hope as the first woman Speaker . |
| 2 | In 1967 too the Warsaw Pact states declared that West Germany should recognise East Germany as the first step to meaningful détente but Brandt could not yet go so far : most West Germans still hoped for the reunification of Germany . |
| 3 | In it he arrived , among many other discoveries , at the law of inertia later used by Isaac Newton as the first law of motion , at the parabola as the path of a projectile , at the relationships between distance and velocity and between distance and time , and at the continuity of acceleration . |
| 4 | In a general election on July 19 , 1987 [ see pp. 35388-90 ] , the PSD , which under Cavaco Silva had been ruling as a minority administration , was returned to parliament as the first government since 1974 to command an absolute majority . |
| 5 | It is described by wildlife experts as the first animal to benefit from the collapse of communism . |
| 6 | the sound of whose surname and its positioning at the start of the final stanza aurally and visually rhymes with ‘ Declines ’ which similarly ends a sentence as the first word of stanza six . |
| 7 | Hank paid five dollars from his paper money as the first month 's rent , and , later that day , he and several of his friends pushed a dowager of a car round from his back lane , where it had been dumped by a tow truck , into the Dawsons ' garage . |
| 8 | With a smothered curse he pulled her into his arms and began to kiss her , using a more powerful argument than words as the first touch of his mouth on hers sent everything out of Leonora 's head other than the fact that she loved and wanted this man to the point where she was almost ready to believe that she 'd been mistaken . |
| 9 | He could accept self-determination and advance the prospects of a political settlement without burning his boats with the army — to whom he presented association as the first step towards a real , consensual integration — and without seeming to capitulate or feeling that he was capitulating to the FLN . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The fact that Guatemala in 1954 had ‘ returned from Communism ’ ( and was regarded by the United States as the first country to do so ) increased Soviet reluctance to be perceived to be experiencing another ‘ loss ’ in the area ( even though they did not accept that Castro was embarking on a road towards Communism ) . |
| 12 | Our informants had a well-articulated theory of the relation between ‘ work-in-school ’ and success in a life career that allowed them to see work-in-school as the first rung of their adult moral careers . |
| 13 | But Colin Young , then managing director of Lawrie and Symington , had negotiated a tough deal as the first company to sign an EASE franchise in early 1990 . |
| 14 | On March 7 , the Group of 12 ( a newly formed coalition of the country 's main opposition parties , ranging from communists to conservatives ) issued a joint statement calling upon the populace to rise up against Avril and force him to hand over power to an interim civilian administration as the first step towards the holding of free elections . |
| 15 | Percy Pilcher , a naval architect at Glasgow University was experimenting with a powered glider and , but for the tragic accident that ended his life , would have entered the history books as the first man to fly an engine-driven aircraft . |
| 16 | The Tories entered the record books as the first party to secure a fourth term in power since the early 19th century and caused a further surprise by regaining seats in Scotland — confounding predictions of a Conservative collapse north of the border . |
| 17 | An infant uses the mouth as the first organ from which pleasure can be derived , through sucking at the breast and imbibing the warm milk . |
| 18 | Glenavon are on the march again with a Gold Cup quarter-final place in the bag and a £1,000 jackpot as the first team to score ten goals in the tournament . |
| 19 | Glenavon are on the march again with a Gold Cup quarter-final place in the bag and a £1,000 jackpot as the first team to score ten goals in the tournament . |
| 20 | Magnus Magnusson , TV presenter , president of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds , chair of the Ancient Monuments Board for Scotland and currently chair of the Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland , will be taking on the most demanding environmental job in Scotland as the first chair of the new agency . |
| 21 | Young men who take clerical work as the first step in a management career can be considered middle class . |
| 22 | Equally remarkable were the ambition and determination that pushed to completion her final novel , which is also her masterpiece , South Riding ( published posthumously in 1936 and awarded the James Tait Black memorial prize ) : a rich regional study of social change and local government , it drew to some extent on her mother 's experiences as the first woman alderman in the East Riding of Yorkshire . |
| 23 | Robert Cooper has donated a magnificent Normead heifer as the first prize to the draw , and Dalgety Agriculture sponsored all the printing and promotional costs along with Herdwise , which is supplying the second prize of 10 semen straws . |
| 24 | The control experiments included both use of a non-immune serum as the first layer and staining with conjugate alone . |
| 25 | Fluorescence was not detected in control experiments , which included use of a non-immune serum as the first layer or incubation with fluorescein isothiocyanate conjugate alone . |
| 26 | Keegan has paid up the contracts of Billy Askew , David Keavney , Archie Gourlay , David Robinson and Anth Cole as the first step in a Geordie clear-out . |
| 27 | On March 14th , at Dunkeld House Hotel , CCG held an historic two day conference and seminar for directors and senior management as the first step in the launch of CCG 's Total Quality Management strategy which will effect all of us — very much for the better . |
| 28 | Behind it lay two political motives : first , to see the Plan as the first step towards an effective political integration , and second the political conviction that stability and union within Western Europe rested ultimately upon a rapprochement between France and West Germany . |
| 29 | What I will say in answer to the question is that I personally always use hypnosis as the first stage of any regression session . |
| 30 | ( or smartdrv.exe as the first command in AUTOEXEC.BAT if you 're using Windows 3.1 ) . |