Example sentences of "[subord] at [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas at the first level there may be a number of words representative of the typical sentential context ( say 10% ) , beyond this point each of the definition words is in itself polysemous , involving further unrelated sense definitions . |
| 2 | In fact there was nothing ‘ reasonable ’ about it , and Bismarck knew this , for at the first whisper of Leopold 's appearance on the scene the French Ambassador had , officially , let it be known to Berlin that this candidacy would never be accepted by Napoleon III . |
| 3 | For at the first time thou findest but a darkness and , as it were , a cloud of unknowing , thou knowest not what , save that thou feelest in thy will a naked intent unto God . |
| 4 | How to engage with it then , when at the first glimpse of its potentially monstrous nature she had fled ? |
| 5 | The pursuers were keeping up as best they could but held little hope of catching him , though at the first fence on the second circuit — the seventeenth in the race — Red Rum could be seen to be keeping on gamely . |
| 6 | Certainly we employ thirteen thousand , seven hundred and ninety-one staff as at the first of October . |
| 7 | Harry held his breath , catching at that as at the first landmark by which he might hope to get his bearings . |