Example sentences of "[noun sg] at the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be a marvellous feat if the 22-year-old swimming pool attendant from Wakefield was to supercede Hare at the first attempt . |
| 2 | One patient originally included in the study had acute colitis and a high level of IgG anti-lactoferrin at the first sampling occasion , and a further raised anti-lactoferrin level in a later serum sample ( not illustrated ) . |
| 3 | After the Lord Mayor 's Show came the dust cart and the ignominy of defeat at the first hurdle next year . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Many had favoured Frankfurt , a larger town , a major business centre , and the seat at the first all-German parliament in 1848 . |
| 6 | Can you see how West could have defended the hand better other than leading a Club at the first trick ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Make friends with your accounts department at the first opportunity . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The two tasks are interrelated but in this book we separate them and look in this chapter at the first and most difficult task . |
| 11 | Islington JS followed in the footsteps of their all-conquering home team , FA Cup winners Arsenal , when they raised the winner 's trophy at the first Central and Western area five-a-side tournament on May 23 . |
| 12 | Metal gauges then show the woodworkers the exact profile of the neck at the first and twelfth frets . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Buckingham did not realise at first that he had been the only one to get over the 23rd fence at the first attempt . |
| 15 | Though second at the first GP , his subsequent results did n't seem to suggest he 'd be fighting for the title . |
| 16 | The ‘ development theory ’ made it too easy to claim that a state 's interests were at stake at the first sign of legitimate criticism . |
| 17 | I cleared the bar at the first height , then at the second height , but on the third attempt I knocked the bar over . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | Edna enlarged upon how well Karen had done at college , how , although she was the youngest in her family , she was always being called upon whenever she was at home to help out with other people 's children , how she had passed her driving test at the first attempt . |
| 20 | GRAN Dot Ransom , former mayoress of Warwick , has passed her driving test at the first attempt — at the age of 70 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Alan Bond , the embattled Australian beer and media tycoon , was the underbidder at the first great trophy auction : for Van Gogh' Sunflowers . |
| 23 | Eleven patients with incomplete stone clearance at the first procedure underwent a second ( nine ) or third ( two ) cholecystolithotomy after redilatation of the percutaneous tract . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Richard believes his playing at matches inspires the team and he said : ‘ I did it for a laugh at the first home game but now it 's taken off . |
| 27 | ‘ My dad says give us a kiss , ’ shouted a little boy at the first stop in Rhyl . |
| 28 | The main museum building , which started life as the machinery hall at the first Glasgow International Exhibition of 1888 in Kelvingrove Park , moved to Dalmarnock in 1889 to become the Penman Boiler works for almost 100 years . |
| 29 | Later , when tempers had cooled , her father , Mirza Farkunda Zamal , had been awarded a pension by the penitent British authorities ; he was even given a seat of honour at the first Delhi Durbar in 1877 . |
| 30 | I remember his determination at the first exploratory meeting in the upstairs room of a small pub off Victoria Street in London . |