Example sentences of "[noun] at the first [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | EXPLORER Sir Ranulph Fiennes and companion Dr Michael Stroud were almost halfway to the South Pole yesterday in their attempt at the first unaided crossing of Antarctica . |
| 2 | Many had favoured Frankfurt , a larger town , a major business centre , and the seat at the first all-German parliament in 1848 . |
| 3 | All this — and a great deal more — has been put under one roof at the first Daily Telegraph Individual Homes Show , to be held at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham over Easter . |
| 4 | Alan Bond , the embattled Australian beer and media tycoon , was the underbidder at the first great trophy auction : for Van Gogh' Sunflowers . |
| 5 | Cells in the second meiotic division ( MII ) are often difficult to analyse on account of the twisting and overlapping of chromatid arms , but when well spread , they can , and have , been used to assess aneuploidies arising from a segregational error at the first meiotic division ( 1,2 ) . |
| 6 | I remember his determination at the first exploratory meeting in the upstairs room of a small pub off Victoria Street in London . |
| 7 | When David Walker led the poll tax rebels of West Oxfordshire out of the tory fold many pundits expected the new Independents would be replaced by more compliant conservatives at the first electoral opportunity … but two years on independents still hold more than half the council wards . |
| 8 | ‘ You must make your move at the first available opportunity . |
| 9 | Publications on theology and religious teaching methods were bestsellers at the first ecumenical book exhibition held in Taiwan , 15–23 February . |
| 10 | I confess that I literally gasped with disbelief when I heard him calmly announce his determination to get rid of the poll tax at the first possible opportunity . |
| 11 | She was forty seven and the youngest member since Commissioner Catherine Bramwell Booth had made her reluctant appearance at the first High Council . |
| 12 | Amino acids are numbered in italics on the left beginning at the first predicted Met . |
| 13 | I had to promise mum I 'd write to each of them , and apologise in person at the first possible opportunity , and also that I 'd stop off at Lochgair before I returned to Glasgow , to see dad . |
| 14 | After lots of very interesting figures at the first big stopper of the Olympic Eiskanal , the winner was Boris Retzlaf . |
| 15 | Price took the £260,000 top prize at the first extra hole . |
| 16 | Although urban dwellers troop out to the countryside at the first available opportunity and nature plays a significant part in Japanese sentiment , the cultural and other attractions of the cities have a magnetizing effect in an era which has produced a strong emphasis on material rather than spiritual wealth . |
| 17 | Clement Greenberg will be the keynote speaker at the First National Symposium on Criticism in the Craftarts . |
| 18 | Before she was even elected to serve the people of this estate , Coun Ms Buttle was already threatening industrial action by the buses at the first public meeting we attended a year ago . |
| 19 | Torrance clinched the title with a 30 foot putt at the first extra hole and now heads for the Jersey Open tomorrow . |
| 20 | His son Graeme must take some of the blame for this , for his approach at the first extra hole found sand and his drive at the second left his father with an uneven stance on a bank . |
| 21 | I look forward to answering Scottish questions from this Dispatch Box at the first Scottish Question Time after the general election . |
| 22 | It will be a piquant moment if Hamnett indeed wins the title of British Designer of the Year at the first televised Fashion Awards ceremony at the Albert Hall on Tuesday night . |
| 23 | Faldo sank a four-yard birdie putt on the last green and watched Norman miss from three feet , before celebrating his sixth win of the year at the first sudden-death hole . |
| 24 | Settling back in the office chair at Northwood Stadium in the Potteries town of Hanley , where he works as a recreation assistant , Brannen shrugs his powerful shoulder at the first reverential mention of the decathlon doyen . |
| 25 | Many people , in order to feel more secure , make the mistake of diving into straps at the first possible opportunity . |
| 26 | One year later in July 1935 , he delivered a major speech at the First International Congress of Writers for the Defence of Culture , 9 and also played a significant role in orchestrating the behind-the-scenes collaboration between communist and non-communist contributors to the congress itself . |
| 27 | The physician should attempt to establish a positive diagnosis at the first clinical encounter , based on the criteria in table II . |