Example sentences of "as [adj] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It appears that a reworded criterion : " can represent a given decimal number on a number line to one decimal place " would have yielded a success rate of 75 per cent , about the same as that for the first item . |
| 2 | ‘ John may be mad , but he 'd never buy a horse as hot as that as a first horse for his daughter ! ’ |
| 3 | The topology of the molecule , which comprises two immunoglobulin-like domains , is the same as that of the first two domains of CD4 but the relative domain orientation is altered by a fairly flexible linker region . |
| 4 | Where the causes are successive and the second defendant 's breach of duty has caused the same damage as that of the first defendant , the but for test will exonerate the second defendant . |
| 5 | The main concern over the century was to shift as much as possible from the first to the second form . |
| 6 | We 'll need as much exposure as possible in the first couple of years , but it worries me that there 's no independent ‘ father figure ’ capable of speaking for the whole game and making sure it does n't ‘ do a snooker ’ . ‘ |
| 7 | hesitation , a great deal of divided effort as near as life as possible in the first instance . |
| 8 | If you have only one funnel , test the other soils as soon as possible after the first is finished . |
| 9 | Yeah the minutes of the meeting of the nineteenth of February nineteen ninety two , that 's an awful long time ago erm , and it is proposed to bring into force byelaws for district and parish council-owned land upon or as soon as possible after the first of April nineteen ninety two . |
| 10 | As half of the first full-time two man drug squad in the North-East of England , I was tasked with defining and dealing with the new social aberration of ‘ flower power ’ , ‘ the counter culture ’ , and the ‘ psychedelic trip ’ . |
| 11 | She had thought of him as Roman since the first moment she had known his name . |
| 12 | The novelty of the decision lies in the characterisation of the husband as principal in the first degree acting through the innocent agency of the third party . |
| 13 | While a broad toleration of different opinions characterized Jewish religious thought as such during the first century B.C. the conflicts between political and religious leaders , especially of the Pharisaic persuasion , were murderous . |
| 14 | The company convinced the academics that ‘ equivalent professional experience ’ should be viewed as equal to a first degree . |
| 15 | Ninety four people were arrested some as young as fifteen in the first month … |
| 16 | And remember , you will have a wider role to play in the working of your ship , as one of a first aid party , or a member of a gun crew , for instance . |
| 17 | REAR-ADMIRAL GARTH WATSON , who has died aged 78 , had three distinguished careers : as an Admiralty engineer ; as one of the first officers of the newly formed Naval Electrical Branch ; and as an outstanding secretary of the Institution of Civil Engineers . |
| 18 | As one of the first members recalled , ‘ When we reached thirteen most of us felt we were too big for the Sunday School , and there was a gap of a few years until we were able to join the YMCA at seventeen … |
| 19 | How can I communicate that auditory shock , that dumbstruck astonishment I experienced as one of the first privileged listeners … |
| 20 | When the new Institution for the Deaf and Dumb was opened in Edinburgh in 1810 with John Braidwood , grandson of Thomas Braidwood , as Principal , Walter Geikie was enrolled as one of the first students . |
| 21 | Seventeen years later , then Flight Lieutenant Reif , he flew as one of the first navigators in 2 Squadron Canberras when that unit deployed to South Vietnam in April 1967 . |
| 22 | While the rediscovery of women 's experiences has been seen as one of the first tasks , the problem is not just one of ‘ bringing women back in ’ but involves a struggle to upend traditional theories , concepts and methods so that women 's experiences , their relationships to each other , to children and to men become part of the mainstream . |
| 23 | For an established and successful brand , the objectives might well be , to a large extent , ‘ maintenance ’ objectives : to keep a high level of awareness of the brand , ideally as one of the first two in its field spontaneously named by respondents to a regular survey ( something often described in the US as ‘ share of mind ’ ) ; to maintain a high level of belief in the brand 's superiority over its main competitor on certain key attributes of the product type ; to encourage people to offer the product to their visitors . |
| 24 | Richard Elliott , the Headmaster , chose Francis as one of the first pupil teachers , and in due course promoted him to the position of junior teacher at the Margate branch of the Asylum . |
| 25 | By 1568 they were incorporated as one of the first two English joint-stock companies , the Society of the Mines Royal , with some important royal servants and London merchants as members . |
| 26 | In 1903 he went to Merton College , Oxford , as one of the first Rhodes scholars and in 1906 he gained a second-class degree in modern history . |
| 27 | Although it is modest compared with the major producing fields , it has great significance as one of the first of a new generation of small fields to use the processing facilities offered by another field operator . |
| 28 | There has long been the counting of people as one of the first activities of states ( as we shall see in Chapter 4 ) . |
| 29 | He confirmed that the East coast main line from Edinburgh to London King 's Cross — which the Government has selected as one of the first to be privatised — was very profitable . |