Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] as [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The championships were reduced to an all-English affair when Adrian Davies , the Welsh No 1 , joined Nicol as a first day exit . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They adopted French Christian names , often spoke French as a first language , were educated at French schools and frequently sent their children to French universities . |
| 5 | Three signers were presented as illustrations : a deaf man ( signer 1 ) , a hearing man with eight years ' experience ( signer 2 ) and a hearing man whose parents were deaf and who learned BSL as a first language ( signer 3 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Kilfedder 's vote seems highly personal and only those who are close to the political scene in North Down can know whether natural supporters of UPNI and Alliance had Kilfedder as a first and personal preference , and then reverted to their natural allegiance , or whether the position was reversed . |