Example sentences of "as the first [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pioneering post as the first Episcopal priest in Cumbernauld and 23 years in the Highlands ordaining all but one of the priests now in post are sources of satisfaction to him . |
| 2 | Rather , as the programme reminds you , it has assumed a fresh topicality by the appointment of Stella Rimington as the first female head of MI5 . |
| 3 | Elizabeth Taylor starred in the film ‘ National Velvet ’ as the first female rider to win the race . |
| 4 | Elizabeth Taylor 's film role as the first female rider to win the race in Hollywood 's ‘ National Velvet ’ , was pure fiction . |
| 5 | John Miller , the son of a Jamaican father and English mother , aroused interest by being mooted as the first black player to represent England . |
| 6 | India are currently in South Africa as the first black nation to play the Republic in a Test series while England 's invitation to visit The Cape is still in the pending tray . |
| 7 | He had seemed certain to become the first black Tory MP , representing Cheltenham — Norman Tebbit had tipped him as the first black cabinet minister and there 'd even been the odd hint that he might one day inhabit No 10 . |
| 8 | The USSR Supreme Soviet on May 16 passed what was described as the first unclassified legislation regulating the state security services . |
| 9 | To return to our comparison with the EEC , economic integration in the western half of Europe is seen as the first tentative step to a political union which many pay lip service to and few take seriously . |
| 10 | Whaddon saw their acceptance into the Combination as the first tentative step towards professional League football , and work was undertaken over the next five years on building and improving basic facilities at ‘ The Tip ’ . |
| 11 | The company sees campus-wide backbones as the first wide-scale implementation of the technology , followed by Asynchronous Transfer Mode to the desktop . |
| 12 | This is usually an underestimate as the first logical overflow record is always the last from that track physically and tends to be located near the end of the overflow track . |
| 13 | Initially N is taken as the first partial remainder . |
| 14 | As the first great art patron of Manhattan , Reed had commissioned works from leading American painters of the day . |
| 15 | Vic goes down in football 's annals as the first international player to be chosen from the ranks of the 4th Division ( for Wales against Northern Ireland in Belfast on 22 April 1959 ) , but Palace fans should know that this was no freak selection , for Vic had impressed many with his splendid performances and was in a run of 143 consecutive League games with just a single absence for us . |
| 16 | Under the system of rotating leadership Mesic was due to assume office on May 15 as the first non-communist president . |
| 17 | Yet after Banks ' death the British government did nothing to help establish the gardens as a national centre for botanical research until a public outcry in 1839–40 led to the appointment of William Hooker ( 1785–1865 ) as the first official director of Kew . |
| 18 | By the Welland St. Wilfrid built St. Leonard 's Priory , a masterpiece of Anglo-Saxon architecture , befitting its status as the first religious house in all Mercia . |
| 19 | The result : triumph as the first Allied general to enter Rome . |
| 20 | Conversely , to enter the chemical laboratory envisaged in 1606 by Andreas Libavius — a respectable Lutheran humanist , critic of the Paracelsians , and author of what has been described as the first chemical textbook — would be to enter an open house in which the products of the furnace were investigated with a sense of responsibility for the welfare of one 's fellow men . |
| 21 | She hailed the homecoming as the first concrete achievement of the peace talks . |
| 22 | Against this background the government decided to bring forward its economic programme as a matter of urgency , adjusting prices as the first concrete step in the development of a free market economy . |
| 23 | Metrolink is seen by transport planners and environmentalists as the first serious attempt to squeeze non-essential car users out of Manchester city centre . |
| 24 | Delivery of RAF Spitfires to the Mediterranean by the Wasp has been cited as the first large-scale act of co-operation between British and American forces during World War Two . |
| 25 | Gunmen opened fire , killing 14 occupants of the bus , including a Dane , Rasmussen Testerto , described in press reports as the first Western tourist to fall victim to the fighting in Sri Lanka ; a Japanese tourist had been shot dead in 1985 . |
| 26 | Only in this case Italians do not want to stop the flood — on the contrary , it is seen as the first real chance to clean out the corruption which is endemic in the system . |
| 27 | I still commend this report to council as the first real stride along the road we have to take , there 's no choice about that . |
| 28 | She held posts in Northumberland and Dundee before being appointed as the first educational psychologist in Dumbarton . |
| 29 | Her next appointment in 1942 was as the first educational psychologist employed by the education committee of the city of Edinburgh . |
| 30 | Pearson is seen as the first British director to be sacrificed on the altar of his art . |