Example sentences of "[verb] as the first [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It clearly ranks as the first written literature of any consequence . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | Wirgman influenced the development of Western-style painting in Japan by serving as the first foreign teacher to artists painting in the Western style . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Pearson is seen as the first British director to be sacrificed on the altar of his art . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Miriam was wondering as the first fat drops of rain splashed on the verandah . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A quota sale by Aberdeen & Northern Marts , originally billed as the first national sale , will not be held until quota transfer forms are issued . |
| 17 | What is billed as the First Green Consumer Exhibition opens its doors at The Royal Horticultural Halls between 24 and 28 May . |
| 18 | Joe is , of course , best remembered as the first professional to overcome what had grown into a hoodoo . |
| 19 | The Vancouver convention ( originated by Index Medicus and the National Library of Medicine ) , which states that articles contributed by more than six authors are cited in reference lists as the first six authors et al , offers an indirect method of assessing the stringency of criteria for selecting authors . |
| 20 | She started as the first hired staff person . |
| 21 | In the article Garcilaso was touted as the first American and his work seen as the starting point of ‘ a sensibility absolutely new , absolutely Peruvian . ’ |
| 22 | Delivery of RAF Spitfires to the Mediterranean by the Wasp has been cited as the first large-scale act of co-operation between British and American forces during World War Two . |
| 23 | The book starts with a statement about the natural equality of all entities ( 1978 : 61 ) , which Simmel , writing in the Romantic mould , perceives as the first primitive imposition of subjective value upon nature . |
| 24 | John Chalcraft , Managing Director at the Brewery ( 1928–69 ) and H.J. Young ( who ran the Club during the First War ) , were then appointed as the first Financial Advisers , in consultation with the Captain . |
| 25 | She held posts in Northumberland and Dundee before being appointed as the first educational psychologist in Dumbarton . |
| 26 | In 1970 he was appointed as the first honorary consul in Scotland for the republic of Turkey , a post in which his understanding and knowledge of the country was of great help to those in need . |
| 27 | In the Administration formed by John Major after the General Election in April 1992 , a solicitor , John Taylor , was appointed as the first Parliamentary Secretary to the Lord Chancellor 's Department . |
| 28 | Although Stephen 's older son , who succeeded him , was crowned as the first Serbian king by a representative of Pope Honorius III in 1217 , the allegiance of the Serbs to the Eastern Church was not affected . |
| 29 | TV was then considered ( in Europe and the USA ( to exercise a decisive political influence : de Gaulle emerged as the first French politician who both mastered the instrument , the RTF organization , while proving a charismatic performer . |
| 30 | Initially N is taken as the first partial remainder . |