Example sentences of "[verb] at first hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because you do not want a return to destructive two party politics and you do know at first hand that Liberal Democrats do put ‘ people first ’ ; that local income tax is a fair and predictable alternative to the poll tax ; that our stance on Hong Kong is morally right and that we realise the urgency of environmental action with targets for achievement away ahead of the other two parties . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | These qualities were already present to a degree in certain early works , such as the Forfar town hall and the contemporary Kirriemuir church , while at Melville the somewhat perfunctory detail in the castellated style is accompanied by other features reminiscent of the work of Sir John Soane [ q.v. ] ; but his style developed rapidly after his Parisian visit of 1787 , when he doubtless encountered at first hand the revolutionary architecture of E.-L . |
| 4 | ‘ I encountered at first hand the sufferings of un-dernourished children and out-of-work ironstone miners and their impoverished families , ’ he writes . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I have seen at first hand her effect on people young and old . |
| 8 | When you 've lived around men like that for as long as I have , when you 've seen at first hand what they 're capable of , then you can come here and tell me how to handle my affairs . |
| 9 | After all , the member can see at first hand what nice people the Conservatives are . |
| 10 | The existence of a London Showroom for the contract and international market is a vital part of the marketing process where designers can see at first hand the fabrics and curtains to be used in their interiors . |
| 11 | It seems to me that they are describing at first hand a world made up of physical materials similar to those which we can see and touch , with an invisible ( to most of us ) non-material life force much like the ether superimposed on it and within it . |
| 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 | How will the hard men of the IRA react , when they hear at first hand what harm they are doing to everything they say they stand for ? |
| 15 | The bedding which I observed at first hand in 1954 in the peasant community of Pul Eliya was nothing like as grand as the stereotype ; but , apart from some minor differences , it had all the same elements and for the most part they occurred in just the same sequence . |
| 16 | When this happens the rest of the school , who along the way have trained with the successful runner , may have beaten him on occasion , have been course markers , marshals , timekeepers , supporters and team-mates , really feel that sport is n't just another soap opera glimpsed on television or paraded through the back pages of the newspapers — it 's something that they are actively experiencing at first hand for themselves . |
| 17 | Now experiencing at first hand with the Boy Scouts of America the role of ‘ spook-in-residence ’ that he had observed at a distance during his earlier incarnation as a BSA executive , Coleman was engaged mainly in recruiting local captains of industry as sponsors and committee chairmen . |
| 18 | The two ‘ old lags ’ , who have read all about sex , have the most daring conversations about an experience they have never known at first hand . |
| 19 | Here in Brighton not so long ago , she and members of her Cabinet experienced at first hand all the skills , courage and dedication of my colleagues . |
| 20 | Shelby did n't like Ferrari ; like plenty of others before and after , he had experienced at first hand Enzo Ferrari 's withering contempt for lesser mortals . |
| 21 | In a letter of 1867 to a friend on the death of the latter 's brother he writes : " You have experienced at first hand … why our Schopenhauer exalts suffering and sorrow as a glorious fate , as the deuteros pious [ second way ] to the negation of the will … , |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Half the chapters are written by people involved at first hand with the initiatives that they discuss . |
| 26 | Towards the and of his stint , he filled a gap in the team for the Italian GP at Monza — and saw at first hand one of BRM 's famous fiascos . |
| 27 | When I first met John Hurt in 1977 , when he was in Devon filming The Shout , I saw at first hand how much he drank . |
| 28 | Thus I saw at first hand the developing excitement within the scientific community on two continents as thousands of us changed research programmes literally overnight and attempted to replicate the phenomenon . |
| 29 | She saw at first hand the imperialist arrogance of the British in her mother country , aptly illustrated by the signs in the parks which baldly stated ‘ no dogs or Chinese allowed ’ . |
| 30 | Truman later record that at Potsdam he " saw at first hand what we and the West had to face in the future " . |