Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] at the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make friends with your accounts department at the first opportunity . |
| 2 | Y could see the enemy Cessna at the first turnoff . |
| 3 | Select one amplifier for calibration and connect a voltmeter to the test point at the first stage output . |
| 4 | This is perhaps not surprising : their preference for home care at the first interview indicates that they have a stronger commitment to looking after the dementia sufferer than those who said in the first interview that they would prefer institutional care . |
| 5 | Equally dramatic has been the emergence of a new venue , the former Gas Works , converted into a theatre almost at the drop of a hat , a transformation that clearly shook last night 's capacity audience at the first performance in the Klondyke Building . |
| 6 | One patient originally included in the study had acute colitis and a high level of IgG anti-lactoferrin at the first sampling occasion , and a further raised anti-lactoferrin level in a later serum sample ( not illustrated ) . |
| 7 | We must also extend our congratulations to our neighbours , FC Titford Polymer Converters , for taking the Second Division championship at the first attempt . |
| 8 | It was clear that the Government were not able to get their legislation right at the first attempt . |
| 9 | Stevie Ray 's own ‘ Number One ’ was refretted so many times that its fingerboard flattened out from about an 8″ radius at the first fret to nearly 10″ around and above the octave . |
| 10 | Even a world title at the first attempt . |
| 11 | Hay , in finishing clear of her opponents , will have last stone advantage at the first end . |
| 12 | Eleven patients with incomplete stone clearance at the first procedure underwent a second ( nine ) or third ( two ) cholecystolithotomy after redilatation of the percutaneous tract . |
| 13 | These include calling in the fire brigade at the first sign of what they quaintly call ‘ smouldering in senile machinery ’ and ejecting all the customers forthwith , and not opening stations if the required number of staff ( two on the smaller stations ) have failed to turn up . |
| 14 | Edna enlarged upon how well Karen had done at college , how , although she was the youngest in her family , she was always being called upon whenever she was at home to help out with other people 's children , how she had passed her driving test at the first attempt . |
| 15 | GRAN Dot Ransom , former mayoress of Warwick , has passed her driving test at the first attempt — at the age of 70 . |