Example sentences of "[v-ing] at first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I have sought to show in the present chapter , the philosophical grounds on which individualism is defended , though compelling at first sight , are in fact open to doubt . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The first race was off at two fifteen but on race day Cheltenham is up and running at first light . |
| 6 | Indeed the anonymous reviewer of the Pope and Weiner edition went on to propose that ‘ if the police staff college is to fulfil its task [ of producing a major project ] with any credibility , it must encourage its academic staff to go out into the field to study policing at first hand ’ . |
| 7 | For it had occurred to me that the proposed trip in the car could be put to good professional use ; that is to say , I could drive to the West Country and call on Miss Kenton in passing , thus exploring at first hand the substance of her wish to return to employment here at Darlington Hall . |