Example sentences of "[noun sg] at the first [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Sole contender to get over the 23rd fence at the first attempt in a huge pile-up in 1967 , the moderate , blinkered Foinavon held on to his unexpected lead all the way to the winning post , seven lonely fences later , to beat Honey End with Red Alligator , who won it next year , third . |
| 3 | The ‘ development theory ’ made it too easy to claim that a state 's interests were at stake at the first sign of legitimate criticism . |
| 4 | A Sky spokesman added : ‘ We agreed to a police request that Bobby Gould should not be at the ground , even though he worked for us in the same capacity at the first match between the two sides . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Bernhard Langer got the first blow in by hitting a great second shot over the Swilcan Burn at the first hole to only a few inches , about a foot I guess , and birdied to go one nearer the lead . |
| 7 | ‘ My dad says give us a kiss , ’ shouted a little boy at the first stop in Rhyl . |
| 8 | This may take place at the first meeting with the client , though for larger assignments a site visit and access to confidential material may be necessary before such an assessment can be properly made . |
| 9 | This may take place at the first meeting with the client , although for larger assignments access to confidential material may be necessary before such an assessment can be made . |
| 10 | That directness of involvement was signalled by each teacher at the first stage of assessment receiving from central government late in 1989 and early in 1990 packs of materials , descriptions of policy , examples of assessment and timetables . |
| 11 | Eleanor Pitman led the way to expansion in KENT , qualifying as a teacher at the first exam in 1955 , followed closely by Nellie Button and Cicely Harris . |
| 12 | But her pulses had started their racing , her heart its pounding at the first sight of him , her stomach lurching , as it always did , clean over and then , for hours afterwards , refusing to be still . |
| 13 | , Thomas ( fl. 1292–1342 ) , was a working mason at the first building of St Stephen 's chapel in Westminster Palace in 1292–3 and again in 1294 , His name indicates his birth in Witney , Oxfordshire , a manor of the bishop of Winchester , and this was significant for his career . |
| 14 | Nucleotides are numbered on the left beginning at the first nucleotide of the cDNA . |
| 15 | ( 10 ) Any casual vacancy arising in a licensing board from death , resignation , disqualification or other cause may be filled by the election of a duly qualified person at the first meeting of the appointing council following upon the vacancy , and members so elected shall hold office until the date of the next meeting for election to the board . |
| 16 | Casual vacancies in the membership of a board may be filled by the election of a duly qualified person at the first meeting of the appointing council after the vacancy occurred and the person elected holds office to the next election of the board . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He was active in founding the Society of Chemical Industry , and read an important paper at the first meeting of the Liverpool section in 1881 ; he was its chairman , 1889–91 . |
| 19 | It was Petula Clark who set the feeling at the first rally for Mrs Thatcher after she became Prime Minister . |
| 20 | They assessed both communication deviance and affective style at the first interview with families , that is , aspects such as disruptive speech , closure problems , unclear communication of ideas , and statements that were supportive , critical , guilt-inducing or intrusive . |
| 21 | Ten military officers , including Maj. Gideon Orkar , the apparent leader of the attempt , went on trial charged with treason at the first session of the military tribunal set up to deal with offenders on May 21 . |
| 22 | I leave the road at the first sight of Loch Arkaig and go across country , keeping to the paths through the bracken . |
| 23 | They were a delight for the charterers in the Bahamian lagoons , but in an Atlantic storm such wide windows could be our death warrants for if Wavebreaker fell off a big wave the glass could be driven out of the windows and the boat be filling with water in seconds , and so I cut and shaped sheet steel shutters that could be bolted over the boat 's glass at the first sign of bad weather . |
| 24 | To portray specific characters , whether imagined or real ( some were known to members of the audience at the first performance of Enigma Variations and Isadora ) , the would-be choreographer can use classical dance as a firm base but must pay more attention to his characters as particular individuals . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | If elderly people are persuaded to uproot themselves in a hurry at the first sign of trouble , making major decisions at a time when they are not emotionally stable enough to think them through , like selling their homes and moving away from old friends and familiar surroundings into the different world and routine of a younger household , they sometimes regret it , and much unhappiness ensues for everyone . |
| 27 | Temperate species are slow to accept it ; those that de-hardened and resumed growth at the first sign of spring warming would suffer severe damage in subsequent frosts . |
| 28 | These were probably one of the few things of mine not due to be on show at the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist later this morning . |
| 29 | More trouble was to follow Hunt at the British Grand Prix at Brads when has was involved in a shunt at the first bend after Lauda and Clay Regazzoni ( Swi ) collided . |
| 30 | Yi , however , said that his government would press the North Koreans for an explanation at the first session of the North-South Joint Reconciliation Committee on Nov. 5 and the ninth Premiers ' meeting ( scheduled for Dec. 21-24 — see p. 39096 ) . |