Example sentences of "as the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Country Diary : NORTHUMBERLAND : When we saw our first immigrant golden-eye bobbing on the waters of Bolam Lake in the early months of each year , we always took it as the first sign of spring . |
| 2 | As only the better-off members could afford the piece of silver , this can be seen as the first sign that the classless Society of Archers was being taken over by the wealthier members . |
| 3 | My mother was the sort of person who regards talking to yourself as the first sign of madness . |
| 4 | This is seen as the first sign that Soviet nuclear scientists , who are threatened by redundancy following the disintegration of the union , will seek to sell their skills to the highest bidders . |
| 5 | Having formed the first phrase and its complement as the first sentence of our theme , we must turn to the problem of what to do in the second sentence . |
| 6 | A boat called Dodo 's Delight sailed out of Falmouth harbour this week … on board a crew of old boys from Kingham Hill School in Oxfordshire … they 're off to make history as the first school group to sail around the world … they 'll be gone for twenty months … so we 're waving them goodbye in our Friday Feature |
| 7 | As previously announced , new single ‘ Teeth Grinder ’ , which serves as the first taster from the LP , is issued through A&M on October 19 . |
| 8 | ‘ Beautiful Pigeon ’ is backed with two exclusive new tracks , ‘ Beeside ’ and ‘ Home Survival Kit ’ , and serves as the first taster from their forthcoming ‘ Eva Luna ’ LP due on October 24 . |
| 9 | To commemorate the anniversary , the HGO organized a major press junket : critics from all around the opera world came to Houston to interview David Gockley and see three new productions by his company : the world première of a new opera by Robert Moran , the American première of Robert Wilson 's production of Parsifal , and a new version of André Grétry 's Zémire et Azor , billed as the first revival of the opera in the United States since 1794 . |
| 10 | And despite her best entreaties , this Woking housewife achieved instant fame as the first person to miss the deadline for the much-hyped water offer . |
| 11 | Griffiths went down in Welsh history as the first person to be sent off for kicking one of his own players . |
| 12 | Amateur Champion Stephen Dundas was only named as the first reserve … |
| 13 | In or after 1147 Andrew returned to England for a few troubled years as the first abbot of Wigmore , a daughter house of St Victor in Herefordshire . |
| 14 | payable as the first instalment , as when buying on hire-purchase . |
| 15 | On July 8 , European Community ( EC ) representatives signed an agreement with Husseini according to which the EC granted US$35,000,000 as the first instalment of a $54,000,000 grant for the construction of 1,200 housing units in the occupied territories . |
| 16 | The therapist believes this problem is maintained independently of the client 's other problems and thus accepts this as the first goal for therapy . |
| 17 | Move the WORD PROCESSING ‘ column ’ back into the table as the first column |
| 18 | As the first part of our special teenage sex survey — carried out by the Research Group of Great Britain Limited — showed yesterday , girls are more willing than boys to talk about sex with their friends . |
| 19 | The Biblical Commission responded with a letter which came to serve as the first part of an encyclical , Divino Afflante Spiritu , published by Pius XII on 30 September 1943 . |
| 20 | I think as the first part of their trade campaign . |
| 21 | For instance , one of the manuscripts containing a copy of only Book 1 , describes it as the first part of the book called " The Mirror of Contemplation by Canon Walter Hilton " ( Lansdowne MS 362 : Prima pars libri qui dicitur Speculum contemplacionis — Walterus hiltoun canonicus while one of the few manuscripts to contain Book 2 alone refers to it as " the secunde part of the reformyng of mannys soule drawyn of maister Watir hiltone hermyte " . |
| 22 | We 'll have it as the first course this evening . ’ |
| 23 | In what has been described as the first case of its kind in Britain , Greenpeace is taking the chemical concern ICI to court , accusing it of illegally discharging pollutants . |
| 24 | But Colin Young , then managing director of Lawrie and Symington , had negotiated a tough deal as the first company to sign an EASE franchise in early 1990 . |
| 25 | ‘ Can you imagine me as the First Lady ? ’ she asked a friend in 1962 . |
| 26 | Described as the first lady of Christendon . |
| 27 | It is described by wildlife experts as the first animal to benefit from the collapse of communism . |
| 28 | The late Raymond Lewenthal is perhaps best known these days as the first performer in modern times to have revived the music of Alkan , a collection of whose music he also published two years after he made these Gershwin recordings ( in Walthamstow Town Hall , of all places ) . |
| 29 | Researchers always warn ‘ beginner ’ researchers of the dangers of being tempted into data analysis prematurely , eg as the first flow of questionnaires returning slows . |
| 30 | Edward I , with his eye on a complete subjugation of Scotland on the lines of his conquest of Wales , pressed for the marriage of the child to his son Edward , later installed as the first Prince of Wales . |