Example sentences of "[verb] as the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Miller , the son of a Jamaican father and English mother , aroused interest by being mooted as the first black player to represent England . |
| 2 | The Republic of Indonesia comprises mainly some 13,700 islands known until 1949 as the Netherlands East Indies ; since 1976 it has also included East Timor ( when the latter was effectively annexed as the 27th Indonesian province after the withdrawal in 1975 of Portuguese troops , although this act has never been officially recognized by the UN ) . |
| 3 | It was not the first African paper , although nowadays some Tanzanians think that it was ; nevertheless it is the only one whose direct descendants are still in existence , and may be regarded as the first successful , viable paper ( that term has to be used in a relative sense ) edited and produced by Africans . |
| 4 | Indeed , he participates so actively that he is apparently involved in the stoning to death of Stephen , officially regarded as the first Christian martyr ( although Stephen would have seen himself , of course , as a pious Jew ) . |
| 5 | Walpole , who has been traditionally and perhaps wrongly regarded as the first British Prime Minister , always took pains to deny that he occupied such a position . |
| 6 | It counts as the 20th Ecumenical Council . |
| 7 | El Salvador was included as the 102nd contracting party to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) in an official list released on May 24 . |
| 8 | Chevenement enjoyed 18 months ' political success , during which time he did well enough to be tipped as the next prime minister . |
| 9 | A twelve year old boy who 's tipped as the next Aled Jones is taking part in an open-air production of Benjamin Britten 's opera ’ The Turn of the Screw ’ . |
| 10 | The part of the boy Miles , is sung by Sam Burkey , a 12 year-old who has been tipped as the next Aled Jones ; he 's already sung the part with the English National Opera . |
| 11 | Already tipped as the next major band to emerge from the North West , they play Cambridge Junction on November 26 , then Leeds Warehouse 27 , Newcastle Riverside 28 , Dundee Bar Chevrolet 29 , Glasgow King Tut 's Wah Wah Hut 30 , Norwich Waterfront December 5 , Portsmouth Polytechnic 7 , Sheffield Leadmill 8 , Liverpool Polytechnic 9 and London Ladbroke Grove Subterania 10 . |
| 12 | Already tipped as the next major band to emerge from the North West , they play Cambridge Junction on November 26 , then Leeds Warehouse 27 , Newcastle Riverside 28 , Dundee Bar Chevrolet 29 , Glasgow King Tut 's Wah Wah Hut 30 , Norwich Waterfront December 5 , Portsmouth Polytechnic 7 , Sheffield Leadmill 8 , Liverpool Polytechnic 9 and London Ladbroke Grove Subterania 10 . |
| 13 | It clearly ranks as the first written literature of any consequence . |
| 14 | ‘ It was built as the first main processing plant to support the basic nuclear industry of the country and , of course , it has also processed fuel from Japan and Italy . |
| 15 | Wirgman influenced the development of Western-style painting in Japan by serving as the first foreign teacher to artists painting in the Western style . |
| 16 | Only in this case Italians do not want to stop the flood — on the contrary , it is seen as the first real chance to clean out the corruption which is endemic in the system . |
| 17 | To return to our comparison with the EEC , economic integration in the western half of Europe is seen as the first tentative step to a political union which many pay lip service to and few take seriously . |
| 18 | Pearson is seen as the first British director to be sacrificed on the altar of his art . |
| 19 | They are seen as the last surviving areas of untouched wildlife . |
| 20 | As Jo Grimond he was MP for Orkney and Shetland for thirty-three years and was seen as the last traditional Liberal . |
| 21 | What we may see as the first classical statue of a draped woman , corresponding to the naked male of the Kritian boy , is likewise from the Acropolis and could likewise have been set there just before or just after the interruptions of 480/79 . |
| 22 | ‘ Reciprocal altruism ’ is envisaged as the second main form of social behaviour . |
| 23 | Miriam was wondering as the first fat drops of rain splashed on the verandah . |
| 24 | Gestational age was assessed as the last completed week of pregnancy . |
| 25 | With the adrenalin in full flow , both East and West concentrated on four further days ‘ curling at various venues in Toronto , at the end of which we were thrilled to emerge as the first Scottish team to win in Canada since 1949 . |
| 26 | This week , Joy Francis investigates the first category of elder abuse : physical abuse and physical neglect ( see page 18 ) while Mervyn Eastman , recognised as the first social worker to highlight elder abuse , examines the problems of defining elder abuse ( see page 20 ) . |
| 27 | Representatives of the UniForum open systems user group and its European counterpart , EurOpen , were in Utrecht this week to promote what is billed as the first pan-European open systems exhibition and conference . |
| 28 | A quota sale by Aberdeen & Northern Marts , originally billed as the first national sale , will not be held until quota transfer forms are issued . |
| 29 | What is billed as the First Green Consumer Exhibition opens its doors at The Royal Horticultural Halls between 24 and 28 May . |
| 30 | Joe is , of course , best remembered as the first professional to overcome what had grown into a hoodoo . |