Example sentences of "as [prep] [art] first " in BNC.

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1 Where sexual contact takes place in aggravating circumstances ( which are the same as for a first degree offence ) , criminal sexual conduct in the second degree is committed .
2 As for the first , it should be remembered that for an Epicurean the worst pain is the groundless fear of what may happen after death , and that excessive unnatural desires are painful too .
3 At least the accountants were happy , as for the first time in England match receipts passed the £l million mark .
4 It was a terrible disappointment , my heart sank as for the first time I detected a stiffness in Leo 's voice .
5 Repeat the checking for other holes as for the first strip
6 If the sense of the magnetic field is irrelevant , but the same physics applies as for the first reversal , the pole that starts at the North Geographic Pole must once again pass through the Americas .
7 As for the first , disclosure is costly , and at some point the costs begin to outweigh the benefits of increased disclosure .
8 As for the first of these concepts , we have seen that to a considerable extent in most schools the project achieved the objective of broadly based participation in devising curriculum-related library plans .
9 His voice had deepened , the words becoming more guttural as for the first time since she 'd met him he seemed to struggle with a language which was not his own .
10 After returning to London she again on Nov. 21 declared that she would fight on , and ( as for the first round ) secured nomination and seconding by Douglas Hurd and John Major ( Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer respectively ) .
11 The voting procedure for the second ballot will be the same as for the first save that paragraph 14 shall not apply .
12 As for the first reactions from employees and visitors to the Taste Sensation launch preview , said : ‘ Most people have been very positive about it . ’
13 Although there were nearly four times as many conscientious objectors as during the First World War , there was no organization remotely like the NCF .
14 I it it 's oh no , we do n't want war , we 're all against war , but nobody is prepared to bother actually to go to a meeting or , or pay a small subscription and , and then you w you could of had a very strong United Nations now the same as after the first world war , but it 's the people that did n't do it .
15 Ptolemy ranked it as of the first magnitude , and seems to have referred to it as ‘ the Last of the River ’ ; from Alexandria he could not see Achernar , though Acamar was visible low over the horizon .
16 In fact as of the first of this month , the number of real vacancies was a hundred and four now today I 've received another list of er so called vacancies from the Leicestershire South area .
17 the formula assumes that at any er as as of the first of April , half the work has been done on all erm files then outstanding , we 've gone into this before , where er we think that that 's er er a correct statistical way of erm dealing with things , if therefore you cut the number of er files which are going in , then erm , er I take it if you 're cutting the number of stage two files which are being passed over , and that 's the area where you 're most fighting at er at time we hope , and it has a very , very considerable impact on workload for next year .
18 So where there is a virtual absence of such evaluations , such as amongst the first generation Caribbeans , there is also no direct influence from the family to children .
19 As with the first beams , they were landing on the side of the bullseye closest to the rear of the craft .
20 As with the first example , it was not certain whether the Hague Rules defences available to the first carrier were available to the second carrier .
21 As from the first of April this year , the British Transport Police will only be able to arrest offenders on British Rail property , but most of the property of British Rail will as from April be owned by Rail Track .
22 I did ask whether the Association of Chief Police Officers have been told that they are going to they are likely to have to take over many of the responsibilities of the British Transport Police as from the first of April .
23 By then the product will have reverted to being a reasonable business again — but not in a glamorous way as in the first phase .
24 We shot another 74 and we were as glad of it as in the first round .
25 As in the first phase of its activity , it sought to rely on a mix of massive public protest with occasional more direct forms of action .
26 He was strong and his resources of stamina enabled him to play just as forcefully in the final ten minutes of a game as in the first ten .
27 But suppose now that each player believes that the other 's preferences are as in the first game .
28 There are of course passages where Klemperer 's gravitas is amazingly powerful , as in the first movement , but the first ‘ Nachtmusik ’ requires greater momentum if it is not to appear diffuse .
29 You fold the postcard in half , cut along the lines as in the first drawing .
30 As in the First World War , the imperative need for active working-class collaboration in the war effort greatly enhanced the importance of the labour movement in the industrial and political life of the country .
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