Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] as [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The move was widely regarded as the first step towards full normalization of diplomatic relations , which had been suspended after the communist victory in the Vietnam war in 1975 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Blackpool Tramway is rightly claimed as the first and last street tramway and unique in many other ways . |
| 4 | Amateur Champion Stephen Dundas was only named as the first reserve … |
| 5 | The decomposition of observed unemployment rates into their classical and Keynesian parts can only serve as a first step in the formulation of macroeconomic policy since such an exercise must take place within a broader framework which encompasses concepts such as short- and long-run Phillips curves , the natural unemployment rate , and NAIRU . |
| 6 | He was also a prime mover in the bid to get better pay for West Indian cricketers , putting in much work as the first secretary of the West Indian Players ' Association . |
| 7 | The German naturalist Ernst Heinrich Haeckel ( 1834–1919 ) is generally regarded as the first to put forward the idea that these changes in the embryo retrace our evolutionary history . |
| 8 | The Sergeant was played by William Hartnell , best known as the first of TV 's Dr Who . |
| 9 | Joe is , of course , best remembered as the first professional to overcome what had grown into a hoodoo . |
| 10 | Consider Best Bars as a first resort , regard the single cocktail you 'll shell out for as sheer investment , get yourself gift wrapped , send for our jetset silklook shirt , rid yourself of even that inch-of-pinch and the body beautiful will be guaranteed bait for ace race driver or millionaire financier in advanced stages of senility . |
| 11 | The police is still seen as the first line of defence , but in recent years there has been increased co-operation between the police and the military , as in the joint exercises conducted at Heathrow in preparation for possible terrorist incidents . |
| 12 | Aries is always classed as the first constellation of the Zodiac , though by now the First Point of Aries ( the position where the ecliptic cuts the equator ) has shifted into the adjacent constellation of Pisces . |
| 13 | Usually cited as the first of its kind , the Amalgamated Society of Engineers comprised into a national organisation over one hundred unions or branches of union , the whole administered by a central executive . |
| 14 | Edward I , with his eye on a complete subjugation of Scotland on the lines of his conquest of Wales , pressed for the marriage of the child to his son Edward , later installed as the first Prince of Wales . |
| 15 | It clearly ranks as the first written literature of any consequence . |
| 16 | Also known as The First One and The Master of Time ; El was the father of gods and men amongst ancient Syrians and Canaanites . |
| 17 | The death of Aegidius was recorded within the account of the Loire wars in the Angers chronicle , and his son Syagrius later appears as the first of the opponents and victims of Childeric 's son Clovis . |
| 18 | A quota sale by Aberdeen & Northern Marts , originally billed as the first national sale , will not be held until quota transfer forms are issued . |
| 19 | It saw the laying to rest of the old war-torn , Dark-age Europe and the emergence of a distinct and purposeful civilization , which we now recognize as the first flowering of the Middle Ages . |
| 20 | But in the mid-1970s things began to look more promising , with the arrival of a young new minister which coincided with movement into the area of young couples who found that older properties were the only type of house they could now afford as a first buy . |
| 21 | The diplomatic initiatives of 1958 will be discussed in later chapters , since they were plainly envisaged as the first steps in a long-term strategy . |
| 22 | And you , my dear Mary , respected though your name is — you are insufficiently regarded as the first of that invaluable breed , preceeding them by at least one whole generation ! |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | The Product Safety Enforcement Forum of Europe ( Prosafe ) was also told that another 14 million are seriously injured as the first steps towards an Interpol-style consumer European protection agency were made yesterday . |