Example sentences of "[adv] at [art] first [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will make a report to me daily at the first hour of night . |
| 2 | Peter Dutton , Corporate Recruitment Manager at Procter & Gamble 's UK head office in Newcastle , wrote : ‘ We do not use Headhunters at all , because we have a policy of recruiting only at the first level of management ( usually graduates direct from university ) and filling all more senior management positions by promotion from within . ’ |
| 3 | The strong relationship between syntactic category and coverage exists only at the first level of information . |
| 4 | The repeating shape of the accompaniment in quavers is designed to recur only at the first beat of the seventh bar . |
| 5 | Its supporters in the streets may melt away at the first sign of trouble . |
| 6 | They are boring , grey-coloured , hamster-like devices that scurry away at the first sound of our Michelin Interroutes ; I suppose I would leg it too if some mad giant was riding his bike over my roof . |
| 7 | Two species of butterfly fish have been observed to swim slowly backwards at the first hint of trouble , making their false eyes seem even more real . |
| 8 | In the case of a board for an islands area or division of an islands area , the members were to be elected at a meeting of the islands council to be held between May 16 , 1977. and June 30 , 1977 , and thereafter at the first meeting of the council after every ordinary election . |
| 9 | As I lie here under the green , seaweedy tent I remember from some trite television interview , a remark made by Brigitte Bardot , loopy Parisienne , namely that in all her many love affairs she was off at the first sign of the waning of passion . |
| 10 | Wycliffe looked up at the first tier of planks ; the shot must have been fired from up there . |
| 11 | No partnership has a guarantee of happiness , and if you give up at the first hint of discord you 'll never find the rewards a mature and honest relationship can bring . |
| 12 | But all the time they forage they are alert , ready to withdraw instantly at the first hint of danger . |
| 13 | ‘ You 're always undermining me , ’ Avril accused James when he tried to respond to an earlier complaint she had made ( 'You always opt out at the first hint of difficulty' ) , and she reprimanded the children . |
| 14 | I was pleased to renew friendships made over two years ago at the First Congress of Black Catholics , and it was a joy to be again in a crowd of African , Afro-Caribbean and Asian Catholics where for once I was not the only black face in a sea of white ones . |
| 15 | She was almost at the first port of call — one of Luke 's list . |
| 16 | I was confident I could wear her down eventually , but I certainly never expected her to come across at the first time of asking . |
| 17 | Each makeshift arrangement concealed a human larva that would emerge again at the first signs of dawn . |
| 18 | Look again at the first version of the witness ' testimony and answer the question : What did she eat for breakfast ? |
| 19 | The dawg will diverge from the node at the end of the head string , and converge again at the first node of the tail string . |
| 20 | Yet what was certain was that God would strike punitively at the first sign of sin , and the worst sin in a ruler was pride . |