Example sentences of "as a first [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a first approach to converting the conceptual schema to the Codasyl model , the entities are mapped to records , attributes to data items , one-to-many relationships to sets , and many-to-many relationships to two sets connected by a link record type . |
| 2 | If the withholding of manifestations of parental love is used as a first measure of initial disciplining , then it must be remembered that the measure of the distress necessary to be imposed , need be very small indeed if the imposition is started early enough . |
| 3 | Although Hayman was over-age for recruitment , he was taken into the Diplomatic Service as a first secretary in 1954 and posted the next year to Belgrade . |
| 4 | Potted game is most delicious and delicate with hot thin crisp brown toast for tea or as a first course at lunch . |
| 5 | But their strength as vehicles for practice or as a first amp for a budding shredder would be difficult to challenge . |
| 6 | I was there forty years , right , I 've seen every accident on that bend , I 've had my house as a first aid post a dozen times , until we did something in this committee to sort that corner out |
| 7 | As a first cause of resentment against authority , falling out with employers was as common as falling out with landladies . |
| 8 | Southwell , as well as Lingfield , has been chosen as a first venue for all-weather racing in this country . |
| 9 | This gives a grand total of 30 out of 36 errors which could be corrected , by using simple algorithms as a first attempt before going into more complicated algorithms which may be impractical . |
| 10 | As a first stage towards reviving the route 's viability plans were made to accelerate certain key Glasgow services by raising the line speeds from 100 to 110mph ; the second stage was to prepare an investment case for new equipment to fill the gap which would otherwise have been covered by APT . |
| 11 | Although the qualification was very much sought after in the beginning with the burgeoning of more centres running it up and down the country , the trainees soon realised that in spite of the skills they gained , the diploma was not recognised by the DES even as a first stage towards further accreditation . |
| 12 | I believe it was canvassed as a first stage towards total ‘ Danu-isation ’ of the conflict , internalisation of the war . |
| 13 | In 1974/75 the CDP pursued the ideas of self-validation and delegated authority in the form of accreditation as a first stage towards the autonomy they were seeking . |
| 14 | As a first stage in developing better financial management in the FPS , ‘ Indicative Drug Budgets ’ do have a role to play . |
| 15 | For the pacifists of the ILP , however , the Memorandum was seen as a first stage in the creation of a new diplomacy from below ; ‘ our own proclamations … our own diplomacy … our own international meetings ’ , as MacDonald had said at the Leeds Convention . |
| 16 | As a first stage in the development of a general associative procedure an investigation was made into automatically attaching models ( to one another ) , by the declaration of attachment nodes . |
| 17 | the number of characters ; ie letters , figures , signs or spaces in a piece of copy , line or paragraph used as a first stage in type calculations . |
| 18 | As a first stage in this process , she catalogues a range of critiques of positivist approaches to knowledge and suggests alternatives . |
| 19 | The DipHE , recommended by the James Committee as a first stage in teacher education , was interpreted more broadly by the 1972 White Paper . |
| 20 | The European Commission has decided to send warning letters to the British government as a first stage in initiating legal proceedings over two alleged breaches of EC environmental legislation . |
| 21 | They should be useful , however , when we are asked to produce lists of new titles for catalogues , budgets , etc , as a first point of reference . ) |
| 22 | Of those whose initial source was parents , most were girls , and more middle-class parents were cited as a first source of information than working-class parents . |
| 23 | Others however , including many of the heads of state and government who attended the conference , argued that it should be seen as a first step on the road to sustainable development , a welcome acknowledgement of the seriousness of the problem , and of the fact that global co-operation was needed to tackle it . |
| 24 | If you have been unemployed for a while seek retraining as a first step to a new , positive attitude . |
| 25 | By pressing actively for the payment of wages monthly instead of weekly , they have supported and contributed to the great growth or worker banking in those countries , where it has been seen as a first step to other ‘ staff status ’ privileges . |
| 26 | As a first step to bringing democratic pressure to bear on foreign policy he advocated the establishment of a select committee of MPs to shadow the operations of the Foreign Office . |
| 27 | Announcing storm-damaged figures and government plundering of its profits that left nothing over for investment , Deutsche Bundespost Telekom yesterday said that following its move to set up its cellular operations as a separate company as a first step to privatisation , it was also considering privatising the unit it has created to look after large customers . |
| 28 | His advice to companies would be to try to make the costs of all types of accidents visible as a first step to targeting prevention , and the obvious way would be to put down the costs on to the already established cost centres within a company . |
| 29 | As a first step to achieving it I made up my mind , even before I went to Eton , to join the Sudan Political Service . |
| 30 | As a first step to restoring peace the UNP on Sept. 27 joined five opposition parties in calling on all armed groups to stop engaging in violence . |