Example sentences of "as [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Repeat the checking for other holes as for the first strip |
| 2 | After returning to London she again on Nov. 21 declared that she would fight on , and ( as for the first round ) secured nomination and seconding by Douglas Hurd and John Major ( Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer respectively ) . |
| 3 | If the sense of the magnetic field is irrelevant , but the same physics applies as for the first reversal , the pole that starts at the North Geographic Pole must once again pass through the Americas . |
| 4 | At least the accountants were happy , as for the first time in England match receipts passed the £l million mark . |
| 5 | It was a terrible disappointment , my heart sank as for the first time I detected a stiffness in Leo 's voice . |
| 6 | His voice had deepened , the words becoming more guttural as for the first time since she 'd met him he seemed to struggle with a language which was not his own . |
| 7 | Although there were nearly four times as many conscientious objectors as during the First World War , there was no organization remotely like the NCF . |
| 8 | I it it 's oh no , we do n't want war , we 're all against war , but nobody is prepared to bother actually to go to a meeting or , or pay a small subscription and , and then you w you could of had a very strong United Nations now the same as after the first world war , but it 's the people that did n't do it . |
| 9 | Ptolemy ranked it as of the first magnitude , and seems to have referred to it as ‘ the Last of the River ’ ; from Alexandria he could not see Achernar , though Acamar was visible low over the horizon . |
| 10 | So where there is a virtual absence of such evaluations , such as amongst the first generation Caribbeans , there is also no direct influence from the family to children . |
| 11 | As with the first example , it was not certain whether the Hague Rules defences available to the first carrier were available to the second carrier . |
| 12 | Once again competitive prices were highly ranked by comparatively few DGMs ( 24 per cent ) though the same proportion of respondents were experiencing problems in obtaining comparative cost data as in the first year . |
| 13 | Furthermore , as in the first survey , the rate of known opioid use was significantly correlated with townships ' unemployment rates and other indicators of social deprivation . |
| 14 | As in the first survey , over 90 per cent of the opioid users attending Wirral 's main two facilities for drug users were daily users of heroin , and had been using heroin for between six months and five years . |
| 15 | As in the first survey , four out of five known opioid users who were available for work were unemployed , and the rate of problem drug use was again significantly correlated with townships ' unemployment rates and other indicators of social deprivation . |
| 16 | As in the first survey , over 90 per cent of the opioid users attending Wirral 's main treatment facilities in 1985–6 were daily users of heroin , who had been using heroin for between six months and five years . |
| 17 | After listening to each pair of words decide whether the sound in question is the same or different in the second word as in the first word , and put a tick in the appropriate column , first having ticked off word no. 1 . |
| 18 | It will be determined by the receivers rather than , as in the first exercise , by the sender . |
| 19 | As in the first trial a Special Court presided over by Chief Justice Sir Arku Korsah heard their case . |
| 20 | Sherry and Galef 's third treatment was a control : the birds were put alone , each with an unopened milk container , as in the first part of the experiment . |
| 21 | The specifically German element comes to the fore , however , in Lutheran hymn-settings as in the first part of Normiger 's book and the ‘ Celler Tabulatur ’ of 1601 . |
| 22 | Some adjectives — notably superlatives , comparatives , and ordinals — appear to give a grammatically acceptable result when they occur in predicative position accompanied by an article : ( 16 ) Larry 's answer was the rudest Waddington Junior was a third [ e.g. boy caught cheating ] the rat was the other [ e.g. animal which solved the maze ] Analogous sentences with most adjectives would be quite ungrammatical , even though it would sometimes be easy to see what the sentence " ought " to mean , as in the first case of ( 17 ) for instance : ( 17 ) Larry 's answer was the rude [ e.g. out of those we received ] a red coathanger was the noticeable The reason for these facts is , ultimately , that the superlatives , comparatives and ordinals are unlike other adjectives in being inherently restrictive , and always presupposing what we may call an extraction set , within which the restriction is exercised . |
| 23 | On the assumption that they would continue to fall at the same rate as in the first half of the decade , it was estimated that the population would be only one tenth of its size in a hundred years time . |
| 24 | The situation at West Glamorgan was , however , very different , as in the first half of 1977 the other Welsh teacher-training institutions mounted a rescue operation to save its courses . |
| 25 | And just as in the first leg at Ibrox a fortnight ago , there were football fireworks at Elland Road last night . |
| 26 | ‘ If they manage that , I just hope we can force Liverpool into making as many errors as in the first leg . ’ |
| 27 | But , as in the first Test , Morrison removed him on the stroke of stumps , this time with a yorker , to leave honours even at 239 for 5 . |
| 28 | However , as in the first passage , there are also many identifiably London features : in the grammar , many of the forms of the verbs ( was trodding , called , went , was ) [ G4-G6 ] ; in the phonology , the vowel sounds of down [ P9 ] , across [ P1 ] , want [ P1 ] , along [ P1 ] , called [ P11 ] ; the glottalling of /t/ in what , want , start , but [ P19 ] ; and /v/ in with ( /wiv/ ) twice [ P17 ] . |
| 29 | As in the First World War , the imperative need for active working-class collaboration in the war effort greatly enhanced the importance of the labour movement in the industrial and political life of the country . |
| 30 | As in the First World War , the United States was in one respect more fortunate than the other major powers in the Second World War : she avoided either invasion or aerial bombardment . |