Example sentences of "[adv] regarded [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The move was widely regarded as the first step towards full normalization of diplomatic relations , which had been suspended after the communist victory in the Vietnam war in 1975 . |
| 2 | Walpole , who has been traditionally and perhaps wrongly regarded as the first British Prime Minister , always took pains to deny that he occupied such a position . |
| 3 | The German naturalist Ernst Heinrich Haeckel ( 1834–1919 ) is generally regarded as the first to put forward the idea that these changes in the embryo retrace our evolutionary history . |
| 4 | And you , my dear Mary , respected though your name is — you are insufficiently regarded as the first of that invaluable breed , preceeding them by at least one whole generation ! |
| 5 | Indeed , he participates so actively that he is apparently involved in the stoning to death of Stephen , officially regarded as the first Christian martyr ( although Stephen would have seen himself , of course , as a pious Jew ) . |