Example sentences of "be described [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only speculation is possible in offering a reason for the initial action , which could be described as the first rite . |
| 2 | By the time the 1958 World Cup was held in Sweden , the international game had reached what could be described as the first flowering of maturity . |
| 3 | SpreadBase is described as the first category-based modelling tool . |
| 4 | The background to the Essex initiative is described in the first annual report for 1981–1982 ( Taylor , 1983 ) as follows : |
| 5 | Conversely , to enter the chemical laboratory envisaged in 1606 by Andreas Libavius — a respectable Lutheran humanist , critic of the Paracelsians , and author of what has been described as the first chemical textbook — would be to enter an open house in which the products of the furnace were investigated with a sense of responsibility for the welfare of one 's fellow men . |
| 6 | Plans for setting up the Newbolt Committee were initiated in the course of an unprecedented mobilization of the whole population to sustain what has been described as the first " total " war effort . |
| 7 | In 1833 J. C. Loudon , who has been described as the first architectural journalist , announced that the ‘ great object ’ of his Encyclopaedia of Cottage , Farm and Villa Architecture was ‘ to show how the dwellings of the whole mass of society may be equalized in point of all essential comforts , conveniences and beauties ’ . |
| 8 | This has been described as the first ‘ social laboratory ’ where children can experiment with relationships and learn to cope with change , envy , competitiveness and rivalry — things that will help them to develop social skills . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The USSR Supreme Soviet on May 16 passed what was described as the first unclassified legislation regulating the state security services . |
| 11 | Earlier in the month , on Nov. 8 , Roh had attended a one-day meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa in Kyoto , in what was described as the first of a planned series of regular bilateral discussions . |
| 12 | The agreement was described as the first US arms sale to a former Warsaw Pact country . |