Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] as the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In his History of the English Church and People , the eighth-century monk and historian , Bede , named Ella as the first ‘ High-King ( Bretwalda ) , of all the provinces south of the Humber ’ . |
| 3 | Let us clear the alternatives out of the way ; while they are often brought into discussions on the best methods of sharing knowledge with undergraduates , they have but limited scope , and there is no doubt that you must learn to handle lectures as the first step towards a fruitful co-operation with the staff at your college . |
| 4 | Use extended memory , and load smartdrv as the first device driver in CONFIG.SYS after the HIMEM.SYS command line . |
| 5 | In the same camp are several largely left-wing popular movements that portray Maastricht as the first step towards a European superpower and the end of Denmark as an independent state . |
| 6 | Axil also introduced an Open Look-based fax/modem package called AxilEnvoy as the first in a series of software products to provide added functionality such as voice mail , conversation record/playback , multimedia document support , security , image filtering and editing and optical character reading . |
| 7 | It was no coincidence that the majority of the French delegates were members of the little-known Le Societe Pereire , which sought to recognise Pereire as the first teacher of the deaf in that country — Pereire being a man who practised teaching by the oral method . |
| 8 | What I will say in answer to the question is that I personally always use hypnosis as the first stage of any regression session . |
| 9 | According to contemporary writers , and repeated regularly ever since then , Piper had already gained fame as the first European to have been behind the Great Wall of China . |
| 10 | Exactly 100 years ago on 1 January , 1883 , Lieutenant General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers took office as the first Inspector of Ancient Monuments . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If the softly spoken Welshman is making history as the first rugby man to conquer soccer , he will not be the last . |
| 13 | He also made history as the first judicial nominee to be confirmed without the recommendation of the Senate judiciary committee , which held confirmation hearings on Sept. 10-27 , but deadlocked seven to seven when it finally voted on the motion to recommend the nomination , and then voted 13 to one to pass along the nomination to the entire Senate with no recommendation . |
| 14 | Against this background the government decided to bring forward its economic programme as a matter of urgency , adjusting prices as the first concrete step in the development of a free market economy . |
| 15 | Okay so now suppose you have Florence as the first noun in T three and herself no do it the other way round , suppose you had herself as the first noun and T three Florence okay then you 'd find Florence does C command herself but it should n't |
| 16 | A boat called Dodo 's Delight sailed out of Falmouth harbour this week … on board a crew of old boys from Kingham Hill School in Oxfordshire … they 're off to make history as the first school group to sail around the world … they 'll be gone for twenty months … so we 're waving them goodbye in our Friday Feature |