Example sentences of "[to-vb] at first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that timing of the first births is closely related to age at first marriage or union is documented in Fig 1 . |
| 2 | As a retired deputy head teacher , having to be cared for was hard to accept at first . |
| 3 | Whilst your forthcoming weekend will naturally provide you with the ideal opportunity to discover at first hand the delights of owning your own Highland retreat , I can assure you there is absolutely no commitment . |
| 4 | To enter such houses , to know at first hand such interiors , was to give a face to the masses , mitigating on the one hand the terror of revolution , satisfying on the other the promptings of Christian conscience . |
| 5 | Whilst in the design studio they were able to observe at first hand the adaption , of a Chinese Motif which was being prepared by Roger McDowell , Contract Designer , for another Swedish customer . |
| 6 | When Van Cheele got to London , Cunningham did not want to talk at first . |
| 7 | Back in the changing rooms , the only drink to celebrate at first for financially pressed Oxford was tea … |
| 8 | Eliot is able to recall Shakespeare closely enough to suggest at first sight that an ironic contrast is aimed at , but also to present the possibility that the allusion functions as the poetic equivalent of a legal fiction . |
| 9 | As experienced dog owners we thought we knew what to expect at first — a little mess , some chewing , a bit of a handful . |
| 10 | It is this aspect of the craft that I want to look at first this month . |
| 11 | Erm what I would ask the panel to look at first of all is the fact that the erm the proposals for I five and I twelve appear to be largely acceptable over quite a large area of the the county . |
| 12 | This will provide an unprecedented opportunity for many to experience at first hand the richness and diversity of Japanese culture . |
| 13 | Her assessment of me changed from one of total hostility to a slightly puzzled statement that my experience with these doctors , in her own words ‘ may prove , after all , not to have been a bad thing for this peculiar chap — half high principle and half unashamed pragmatism — to have been brought into personal dealings with this autocratic profession and to experience at first hand the kind of behaviour that has been driving Ministers of Health to despair for years ’ . |
| 14 | However , egg white is not the easiest adhesive to use at first and you may prefer to use a rubber solution glue . |
| 15 | The Curly Top dryer felt quite strange to use at first . |
| 16 | Otherwise , the repetition on your part will not motivate the dog to react at first , and soon this can become an habitual problem . |
| 17 | It 's irritatingly easy to crash at first , as the pushscroll is only activated when you 're more than halfway across the screen , giving you little time to see and avoid hazards . |
| 18 | It 's counter see you , the reason , the reason that this seems difficult to understand at first is we 're not used to thinking of it that way . |
| 19 | It was hard to believe at first , of course . |
| 20 | The majority of information on coffin types comes as a result of the recent introduction of funerary studies in archaeology and vault examinations — much from work carried out in the 1980s at such places as Christchurch , Spitalfields , at Hinton St George , Somerset , and Withyham , Sussex — where opportunities arose to study at first hand coffins dating from the sixteenth century to the present day . |
| 21 | Yet in spite of the enormous output of historical books and articles on modern subjects , the general historian does not always have good secondary studies by specialists to cut a path for him through material which he has not time to study at first hand . |
| 22 | ESSEX school students of all ages now have a unique opportunity to study at first hand the integration of wildlife and landscape conservation with modern farming techniques . |
| 23 | To come upon someone with it curling all over his face is astonishing enough to overlook at first a certain glassiness to his left eye — until , that is , he absent-mindedly lets it fall to dangle from its string . |
| 24 | Another problem which owners may fail to appreciate at first is that when a dog is in pain , it may bite unexpectedly , even though the cause of the pain is not immediately obvious . |
| 25 | The advantage of the telephone is that it is a two-way communication which gives you the chance to assess at first hand ( or ear ) why your account is not being paid . |
| 26 | Some languages have long words of many syllables which are difficult to pronounce at first . |
| 27 | It had not been an easy concept to grasp at first , but ‘ we 're getting better at being businessmen , ’ Mr. Lockley said . |
| 28 | Although he did not begin painting seriously until 1911 , Gris had thus been in a position to watch at first hand the birth and development of Picasso 's Cubism . |
| 29 | Professional Draw is equally at home with creative or technical illustration and the interface shows that a great deal of thought about usability has gone into it , although the sheer weight of features and refinements for precision illustration make it a complex package to master at first . |
| 30 | Brilliantly designed , very realistic and , despite being a tad tricky to master at first , incredibly playable . |