Example sentences of "as the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The proposed arrangement did not concern Berlin alone since there were Soviet specialists who argued that ‘ the creation of a neutralised and demilitarised city of West Berlin is estimated by the government of the GDR as the first link in a chain of measures , the sum total of which should lead to a united , democratic , peace-loving Germany ’ . |
| 32 | ‘ For the education or instruction of Boys and Young Persons ’ , John Dakyn also established a free school with Richard Cook , a priest , as the first schoolmaster . |
| 33 | After the revolution , in 1923 , Moscow River Yacht Club challenged the Workers Fitness Club for what was recorded as the first rugby encounter in the history of Soviet sport . |
| 34 | If the softly spoken Welshman is making history as the first rugby man to conquer soccer , he will not be the last . |
| 35 | Presumably , his testing years as the first black in major league baseball affected his perceptions ; he was abused verbally and physically , was sent threatening notes , was boycotted by many teams and at one stage , came to the brink of a nervous breakdown ( Henderson , 1970 , p.71 ) . |
| 36 | so let's go back to home for a moment you say it was updated or should of been updated twenty one months later , as the first update |
| 37 | He became a cult figure in Russia as the first cartoon character in space , the guest of honour on board a rocket celebrating the end of the Cold War . |
| 38 | As the first work of Telling Tales , Annette Messager has hung ‘ Le Bonheure Illustre/1 ’ a highly coloured series of drawings . |
| 39 | In a general election on July 19 , 1987 [ see pp. 35388-90 ] , the PSD , which under Cavaco Silva had been ruling as a minority administration , was returned to parliament as the first government since 1974 to command an absolute majority . |
| 40 | Meanwhile , the influence of Mithraism had led the pagans to substitute Dies Solis ( the Sunday ) for the Dies Saturnis ( the Saturn-day ) as the first day of the week . |
| 41 | This change appealed to the Christians who had long observed Sunday — the Lord 's Day ( Dies Dominica ) on which Christ rose from the dead — as the first day of the week , in place of the Jewish Sabbath . |
| 42 | The planetary week was officially adopted in AD 321 by the Emperor Constantine , who also followed the Christian practice of regarding Sunday , instead of Saturday , as the first day of the week . |
| 43 | Even so , some medieval documents treat 1 January as the first day of the year of grace . |
| 44 | Peterle said that he did not view the planned date of Slovenia 's declaration of independence as the first day of full independence , but rather as a step in a gradual process . |
| 45 | Neil Armstrong is a good example , as the first man to walk on the moon : ‘ One small step for man , one giant leap for mankind . ’ |
| 46 | Percy Pilcher , a naval architect at Glasgow University was experimenting with a powered glider and , but for the tragic accident that ended his life , would have entered the history books as the first man to fly an engine-driven aircraft . |
| 47 | Stirling jumped as the first man of his stick and in the darkness made a bad landing as he could not see the ground . |
| 48 | Among the pioneers teaching before Pavlova 's arrival , the most important was Helen Webb ( whose father was famous as the first man to swim the English Channel ) . |
| 49 | AFTER 112 pioneering days as the first man to live with a permanent artificial heart , Barney Mark , the Seattle dentist died last week , after a viral infection attacked his weakened body . |
| 50 | That was a quarrel which went back to at least 720 BC , when the athlete Orsippos of Megara , more famous as the first man to run nude in the Olympic Games , ‘ freed ’ some borderland from the Corinthians ( Hicks and Hill , no. 1 ) . |
| 51 | Ivan 's son Djuradj is honoured as the first man to introduce a printing press into the Balkans . |
| 52 | Described as the first encyclopedia handbook of plants that will survive water shortages . |
| 53 | He served for three years , originally as chairman , and it is as the first chairman of the future Labour party that he achieved his principal prominence in labour history . |
| 54 | Of course you are still bound to make ends meet , but you no longer have to make all your decisions in terms of money profit as the first requirement . |
| 55 | An office was rented in St Albans and a small staff was appointed , with Michael Hardman as the first editor of publications , responsible for both What 's Brewing and the new and immediately successful Good Beer Guide , which listed all the known outlets for real ale . |
| 56 | The star of this anniversary show , however , will be the National Railway Museum 4-4-0 ‘ City of Truro ’ No. 3440 which made world history in 1904 as the first steam locomotive to attain 100 miles per hour while descending nearby Wellington Bank ! |
| 57 | The 100 ton engine and tender set a record in the 1930's as the first steam loco to clock 100 miles an hour . |
| 58 | The accumulated rights , earned on the basis of Peru 's performance under its IMF-monitored adjustment programme , would then be encashed as the first disbursement under a successor IMF-supported programme . |
| 59 | In introducing General Secretary , Ciaran Ryan as the first speaker on behalf of the Association , Congress President , Tom Douglas said ‘ Our next speaker is from a new affiliate to Congress . |
| 60 | It is proposed to take the seven functions of budgets on pages 49/50 as the first dimension of a matrix structure to which either the rational economic or a political model can be applied in order to form the second dimension . |