Example sentences of "[vb infin] at [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I must not jump at the first chance . |
| 2 | What I 'm planning to do is to put them back in the order , colleagues could you settle down please , I 'm planning to put them back on the agenda in the order that they fell off , and er , hopefully , the first opportunity in that connection may be Wednesday afternoon , but I need to have a discussion with colleagues about that , but I 'll certainly let you know at the first available opportunity . |
| 3 | Gosport was found to be ‘ virtually without defence , protected on the landward side only by an ill-maintained entrenchment … which would fall at the first assault ’ , while the Isle of Wight contained so few troops , so thinly scattered , that it was bound to succumb to a determined attack . |
| 4 | Lawrence Woodward , director of Elm Farm Research Centre , a small newly formed charity set up to research and develop organic agriculture , wrote to Prince Charles asking if he would speak at the first organic food conference to be held in Cirencester in January 1983 . |
| 5 | Working demonstrations of lifting , chopping and clamping will feature at the first UK National Fodder Beet Day , Steanbow Farm , Pilton , Shepton Mallet , Somerset , on Tue , Oct 29 . |
| 6 | Let us look at the first problem first . |
| 7 | So let's look at the first one . |
| 8 | Next week we start the second part of the course , our erm , our key as it were and we 'll look at the first one with er . |
| 9 | you know , I I I do n't , I do n't look at the first four pages in the Express cos that 's |
| 10 | Eleanor Coade had the royal appointment to George III , for whom she made the Gothic screen at St George 's chapel , Windsor , and to the prince of Wales , for whom , successively as prince regent and George IV , she did work at the first Royal Pavilion , Brighton , and Carlton House . |
| 11 | They had had to pass straight through some of the villages which were completely full and did not know where they would go next , but would stop at the first village in which they could park their coach . |
| 12 | Their relationship was n't built on solid foundations , so it was hardly surprising , was it , that it should collapse at the first sign of trouble ? |
| 13 | The Law Lords should review at the first opportunity the natural injustice of injunctions which can silence all the media at a stroke . |
| 14 | She would leave at the first opportunity , and never again would she listen to the reckless promptings of her heart . |
| 15 | Turning over the free endpaper to the next double page , we shall usually arrive at the first appearance of print , unless the publisher has been very free with his endpapers and given us some blanks . |
| 16 | Likewise , the reactive home medic may panic at the first sign of trouble , fail to diagnose the true cause of the problem and , in adding a so-called ‘ remedy ’ , do more harm than good . |
| 17 | Searching may thus cease at the first level or spread down and out , through the analysis of the primitives or entity geometry , into a fine check of a region of local geometry . |
| 18 | The young officer , he concluded , must escape at the first opportunity or risk being classified as an unambitious ‘ no hoper ’ at an early career stage . |
| 19 | A true visionary would n't crumple at the first sign of opposition , would take all this in her stride . |
| 20 | You can indicate a specific start point for the list by supplying a Start issue id ; if not , the list will start at the first Issue alphabetically which is associated with the specified Client . |
| 21 | Otherwise the gatekeeper role may filter out awareness of the supplier , and so his promotional effort will fail at the first hurdle ! |
| 22 | The doctor in the Accident and Emergency Department told them that Sally had been very lucky ; sniffing aerosols can kill at the first attempt , and some people 's hearts are affected . |
| 23 | They will wither at the first frosts anyway , if they come ; and if they do n't … |