Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [art] first [noun] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Renault showed they had a winner for the first time at the 1979 French Grand Prix when Jean-Pierre Jabouille ( Fra ) was first , with team-mate Rene Arnoux third . |
| 2 | The hotel has targeted its occupancy for the first year at 55 per cent , which , Mr Nitschke says , is realistic . |
| 3 | Homer Scott was delighted when he saw the building for the first time at the May Day meeting and even the course bookmakers who are not known for lavishing praise on anything , are impressed by what has been built . |
| 4 | It was marked by the presence for the first time at the UN of Russian President Boris Yeltsin . |
| 5 | APRIL 24 : Members of the British Racing Drivers ' Club ( BRDC ) , the parent company of SCL , are told about the deal for the first time at their AGM . |
| 6 | ‘ When my father , six months before his death , saw the car for the first time at the Paris show — where he decided to go even though his health was not good — he fell in love with it immediately . |
| 7 | A generation of politicians is now in power whose opinions have been shaped not only by the Stalinist dictatorship but also by the defeat of the first attempts at reform . |
| 8 | And if yesterday 's result is followed by defeat in the first Test at Old Trafford , the clamour for change at the top will reach a crescendo . |
| 9 | It is possible that Dundee United 's Duncan Ferguson , whose exile from the first team at Tannadice was ended at the weekend , could even be seconded from Scotland 's Under-21 squad as emergency cover for Ibrox . |
| 10 | Poetry and music , well attested as pastimes of both upper and lower deck in the period concerned , come to us in rehearsals for a noisy and enthusiastic Messiah in which hierarchies are temporarily forgotten , in the verse-contests of two junior officers partial to odes , in the stamp of hornpipes and the therapy of farces and dramatic interludes and , pertinently , in the comments of the inartistic , like the complaint of Aubrey 's cantankerous servant Killick , exasperated by the noise of a first attempt at ‘ Old Bach 's D Minor double sonata ’ : |
| 11 | The completed cycle was screened in its entirety for the first time at the Venice Festival this autumn . |
| 12 | Mrs. Nellie Everett , receives a bouquet as the first inpatient at Alton 's new Community Hospital . |
| 13 | The word ‘ deadline ’ entered the National Certificate results vocabulary for the first time at the end of last session . |
| 14 | I understand that Border , 37 , was within one phone call of losing his job when umpire Steve Randell reported him along with fast bowler Merv Hughes for dissent in the first Test at Brisbane earlier this month . |
| 15 | The Indian presence in far flung outposts of the Empire , for example , from Malaysia to East Africa , can only be understood in this context , and it is important to note that a tradition of emigration from Jamaica had already developed in the nineteenth century , with 2,000 Jamaicans migrating to build railways in Panama , followed by well over 80,000 who went to work on the first attempt at constructing the Panama Canal in the 1880s . |
| 16 | And it was an honour in both senses , for , like his counterpart on the first tee at the Dunluce course — qualifiers play both championship . |
| 17 | Henry Calverley won the arrow at the first meeting at Scorton , but it was not held there again until 1754 , so it may be that he was keeping this promise . |
| 18 | His funeral took place during the First Test at Trent Bridge , with South Africa the tourists : play was halted as a tribute to the man whose valet helped him to contrive county cricket 's most amazing victory . |
| 19 | 28,545 was the biggest gate of the week-end in the First Division at Newcastle v Southend . |
| 20 | Subtracting these 200 msec from the 550 msec by which the RP preceded the movement , Libet concluded that the neural activity associated with an apparently voluntary act began some 350 msec before the first moment at which the subject was aware of his intention to act . |
| 21 | In February five greyhounds were found to be doped after an £60,000 multi-bet coup in the first race at Canterbury . |
| 22 | But whatever blame for the German failure in the first week at Verdun may attach to Falkenhayn ( and in his Memoirs the Crown Prince heaps all of it on him ) , the Fifth Army Command was not entirely beyond reproach . |
| 23 | My right to the first move at chess carries with it the duty to continue with the game , and so on . |
| 24 | BOOKMAKERS are investigating a large scale copycat betting coup on the first race at Hackney yesterday . |
| 25 | The National Football League was nervous about London 's reaction to the first game at Wembley a few years ago , and whether it would be profitable . |
| 26 | The club received several complaints about unruly behaviour during the first Test at Old Trafford , and ‘ is determined not to allow the antics of a small minority ruin the enjoyment of a day 's cricket , ’ according to Chief Executive John Bower . |
| 27 | The armies saw each other for the first time at just after eleven o'clock . |
| 28 | The finals venture up to the north of the country for 1992 , with the city of Sheffield host to the two-day inter-club national finale for the first time at the Graves Tennis Centre in Norton . |
| 29 | IN perfect conditions , Graham Bell , the leading member of the British World Cup downhill squad on current form , pipped his brother , Martin , to lift the British downhill title for the first time at Tignes , France , yesterday . |
| 30 | It is rather that the whole point of a national curriculum will be lost if it can not be assumed that children at 11 will be ready for whatever is the generally agreed content of the first year at secondary school . |