Example sentences of "as [pron] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is actually patch group 1 , bank 1 — not eleven , as I first thought . |
| 2 | The slenderest patients , those whose faces are nothing more than a triangle of bone around the eyes , they 're Musselmänner : not , as I first thought , as an ironical glance at musclemen . |
| 3 | as I first show in sequel whether the white waistcoated gentleman was right or not , I should have |
| 4 | The Gazette did n't appear to mind as long as my first loyalty remained to them . |
| 5 | as my first work , |
| 6 | K2 is a superb mountain and marvellous as my first 8000m summit . |
| 7 | However , I do still have a squashed , rather brown and mildewy rose pressed between the pages of a book somewhere , so I suppose that could be classed as my first attempt ! |
| 8 | The founding of the Manchester and Salford Adult Deaf and Dumb Benevolent Association ( now the Manchester Centre for the Deaf ) in 1846 is a little obscure as its first reports do not commence until 1873 . |
| 9 | On present evidence , that would be welcome : a reunited Germany with Mr Kohl as its first chancellor is likely to be more prosperous , and stabler , than it would be under the Social Democrats . |
| 10 | The governing Socialist Party ( PS ) elected Laurent Fabius as its first secretary on Jan. 9 in succession to Pierre Mauroy , who had tendered his resignation two days earlier . |
| 11 | When Meg arrived at Uppark as its first chatelaine in many a year she found all the original fabrics in place , but hanging , through neglect , ‘ like grey seaweed ’ . |
| 12 | On 20 December 1780 , soon after his departure , Great Britain declared war on the United Provinces of the Netherlands , giving as its first reason ‘ That , in violation of treaty , they suffered an American pirate ( one Paul Jones , a rebel and a state criminal ) to remain several weeks in one of their ports ’ . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , the three pioneers are readying themselves for a surge of interest : Marcos has appointed its Coventry engine supplier , JE Engineering , as its first distributor , Westfield is looking at a trio of dealers and Caterham plans to appoint half a dozen Rover distributors as service agents for the K-series engine that will power its first ‘ turn-key ’ car . |
| 14 | It has set up a Channel Partner programme and signed Emeryville , California-based Basis Inc as its first reseller . |
| 15 | His father , who was mayor of the village , started the first school and installed him in it as its first teacher when he was only 19 . |
| 16 | In June 1962 the NCCL had adopted a resolution from the Connolly Association calling for an inquiry into civil liberties in Northern Ireland ; the NICCL seems to have been set up in response and as its first action , in July , it held a meeting to prepare a memorandum on civil rights to present to Mr Justice Bose of the International Commission of jurists , who was visiting Belfast . |
| 17 | The Oxford English Dictionary gives as its first meaning for ‘ moor ’ ‘ uncultivated ground covered with heather ’ . |
| 18 | When , for example , The Modern Law Review , based at the LSE , was founded in 1937 , the Review published as its first article an essay by Felix Cohen , a prominent American legal realist , called ‘ The problems of a functional jurisprudence ’ . |
| 19 | There followed a time of uncertainty and bloodshed which was eventually resolved when the republic developed into an empire with Augustus as its first emperor from 27 B.C. The Augustan period from then until his death in A.D. 14 was one of the great and successful ages of man and , architecturally , this is reflected in the many great buildings which were erected under the auspices of Augustus whose boast was that when he came to Rome it was a city of bricks but that he left it a city of marble . |
| 20 | It 's not going to be as big as her first marriage , when 47,000 well-wishers crowded the streets around Westminster Abbey to catch a glimpse of her in the magnificent Glass Coach . |
| 21 | She was looking for the opportunity to extend her holdings in Glasgow , but she was unsure if she wanted to expand her business in the same district as her first premises — perhaps she ought to move upmarket , rather like her London operation . |
| 22 | Would that be tactless as her first remark had , in retrospect , been tactless ? |
| 23 | As her first movie The Delinquents — aided by some pre-release hype over Australian clerics calling for sexy scenes between her and handsome co-star Charlie Shlatter to be cut — opened around the world at the end of 1989 , Kylie was planning a move that could set her on that same yellow brick road to showbusiness immortality . |
| 24 | But not as hard as her first meeting with Mr Mystery was going to be . |
| 25 | Last week the tour selectors picked the 6ft 5in 17st back-row forward as their first choice blind-side flanker for the opening Test against the All Blacks , even though he was originally picked as a No 8 . |
| 26 | ‘ Thirty-nine IOC members give football as their first interest , ’ Scott reveals . |
| 27 | Newspapers are peculiar products in as much as their first copy costs — the cost of producing the issue irrespective of the size of the print run — are so high . |
| 28 | The history of precious substances is richly documented , principally by archaeology , as far back as their first recognition by some of the earliest representatives of the modern species of Homo sapiens . |
| 29 | The majority report concluded that there should be equal representation of owners and trade unions ; and then proceeds straight to the view that a third group of co-opted directors should be appointed , adding as their first reason that those directors would bring special experience to the board room , and a broader and more detached view of the company 's affairs . |
| 30 | MIDDLESBROUGH , who have appointed former England fly half Alan Old as their first team coach for next season , introduce Scot Duncan McNaughton for their final game at Wharfedale on Saturday . |