Example sentences of "[adj] at the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Ada had made it clear at the first round of talks that the commission had no power to negotiate changes , which had to be approved by referendum . |
| 2 | Whether they are filtered or not , expanding dictionary definitions may provide a way of accessing semantic relations that are not accessible at the first level . |
| 3 | These fees which are PAYABLE at the FIRST MEETING of each year cover the Four meetings held during the year and MUST be paid whether attended or not . |
| 4 | There was , of course , now a great deal more interest in Eliot than in the play , but he had stipulated in advance that he was not to be subjected to any form of publicity : no press conferences , no interviews , no speeches ; as a result , he was much more relaxed at the first night and was even able to laugh at his own jokes . |
| 5 | This too was the strongest argument offered in favour of one Sandy Forbes , who hoped for the office of surgeon 's mate of the Sutherland Fencibles in 1779 , though in his case he clearly intended to be an officer in name only for he intended to apply for leave to complete his degree at Edinburgh University and to sail for India as an officer of an East Indiaman at the first suitable opportunity . |
| 6 | In the country , it loads up and goes inert at the first sign of a corner . |
| 7 | Indeed , he was extremely furious and led the fight to establish a new body and was present at the first meeting of the British Deaf and Dumb Association in Leeds in 1890 . |
| 8 | They were present at the first national meeting of indigenous press that we organised in June 1991 , and armed men visit the premises of Etnias magazine without warning . |
| 9 | The second must have got stuck at the first trees — or the driver had n't bothered to navigate the obstacle . |
| 10 | The success of the project was evident at the first concert last year . |
| 11 | In many cases he was even able at the first consultation to diagnose the probable organism which the patient was harbouring on the basis of the patient 's temperament , and was able to confirm these later by bacteriological studies . |
| 12 | From this we can infer that the proportion of useful information obtained by expansion to the second level is less than that available at the first level . |
| 13 | The expansion of dictionary definitions does not appear to provide any further useful information than that which is available at the first level . |
| 14 | The three cases of misclassification of delirium were due to the time delay between the team and research assessments ; by the time of the second assessment , the delirium apparent at the first had substantially resolved to reveal an underlying depression or dementia , or both . |
| 15 | Although the Emperor had been slightly cool at the first meeting — boutonné was how the Queen described it — Eugénie was full of charm , ‘ so amiable , so clever and agreeable ’ that the atmosphere soon warmed and there was , apparently , a frank exchange of views between Napoleon III and Victoria about the various strains in the Anglo-French Entente . |
| 16 | This double characterisation was made more hilarious at the first performances when the bossy one was danced by Helpmann , and later the taller MacMillan , with wonderfully extended développés , and the shyer one by Ashton with dainty attempts to be correct at all costs . |
| 17 | A conversation with Lloyd Walters recorded at the first annual meeting of the Association of Pole-lathe Turners , September 1990 . |
| 18 | In fact it is only because he is trying so hard to get it right that he can be said to get it wrong at all , and the gauche hero is above all the example of social over-anxiety , like Betjeman 's subaltern weak for love on a Hampshire tennis-court : his palms moist at the first handshake , one imagines , his over-careful manners a veneer masking racking uncertainties , and an over-developed sense of social duty enforcing its own inner punishment . |
| 19 | Married women who had not been receiving support from their husband when they were first interviewed , and were therefore not expecting support from him during subsequent crises , had a much reduced risk of depression if they received help from someone else whom they had named as very close at the first interview . |