Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [verb] at first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though the demand from industry and society at large was for better school education , the response came at first not from schools but from Youth Training Schemes for school-leavers , organized by the Manpower Services Commission . |
| 2 | The detective who found the money believed at first the notes must be forgeries . |
| 3 | Yet in all save one of the cases decided at first instance , the court has held that the surety covenant does not touch and concern the land … |
| 4 | The demonstration had at first been banned by the Moscow city soviet . |
| 5 | Courses leading to masters ' degrees are normally designed to fulfil one of the following objectives : to follow directly from the study undertaken at first degree level ; to enable graduates of one discipline to acquire knowledge of another related discipline or subject area ; to develop and apply the student 's first degree knowledge in a related specialized area ; or to relate and synthesize a number of disciplines which the student may not have studied at first degree level . |
| 6 | The poet appears at first to be unable to utter his thoughts clearly ; he circles wildly , stumbling from one half-finished sentence into another , and breaking up the lines awkwardly ( 1 , 2 , 6 , 9 ) . |
| 7 | The question appears at first in terms of whether the suppression of pornography by censorship is worth the price in terms of loss of freedom of expression . |
| 8 | Police stated that although the troubles appeared at first to be spontaneous , both left- and right-wing extremists , Islamic fundamentalists and drug dealers had soon moved in . |
| 9 | The Magyars behaved at first as Asiatic nomads are supposed to , by ravaging across Germany . |
| 10 | The way the poem is ordered allows us momentarily to read it as if the juxtaposition was just that of eye and Canaletto , for the eye appears at first as an independent entity . |
| 11 | The advantage of the telephone is that it is a two-way communication which gives you the chance to assess at first hand ( or ear ) why your account is not being paid . |
| 12 | Otherwise , the repetition on your part will not motivate the dog to react at first , and soon this can become an habitual problem . |
| 13 | The impulse proved at first a happy one , for in the graveyard Miss Fergusson discovered tombstones and crosses whose Celtic air recalled those of her native Ireland ; a smile of approval crossed her dutiful features . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm very confident that when the Commission learns at first hand that it is not technically possible , they will see the overwhelming good sense of the British government and we will hear no more of the matter , ’ declared Mr Howard . |
| 15 | The central part of the island seemed at first to belong to another and less dramatic world . |
| 16 | ( It is interesting , however , that the tsar seems at first to have intended to give the college some jurisdiction over aspects of Russia 's internal administration ; and for a considerable time it did in fact handle quasi-internal issues such as relations with the Kalmuck tribes and with the Cossack hetman in the Ukraine . |
| 17 | The Government refused at first even to meet him , citing the need not to inflame those holding the Beirut hostages , and did precious little more for a long time after the hostages were freed . |
| 18 | When a frottola is through-composed under textual pressure , and aerated and enlivened by polyphonic passages , it is indistinguishable in musical style from the earlier madrigal , particularly as the madrigal tended at first to cling to the note against-note style with a melodically more important highest part . |
| 19 | Approval of the treaty had at first been opposed by West Germany 's Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) on the grounds that it offered inadequate protection for East German industry , and that environmental guarantees were insufficient . |
| 20 | I was in bed for a week with concussion and the doctor said at first he thought I 'd got a broken pelvis . |
| 21 | The way of life which Jesus described in the beatitudes appears at first sight to be a contradiction . |
| 22 | High-minded , worthy and earnest , the Independent thrived at first , an impressive achievement in Britain 's crowded newspaper market . |
| 23 | When regular radio broadcasting began in 1922 , the press refused at first to publish free the daily programme schedules . |
| 24 | Erm what I would ask the panel to look at first of all is the fact that the erm the proposals for I five and I twelve appear to be largely acceptable over quite a large area of the the county . |
| 25 | Among our samples , for instance , 79 per cent of the spouses said at first interview that they wanted the dementia sufferer to remain at home , compared with 36 per cent of the non-spouses . |
| 26 | The Ministers arrived at first light to find the palace dark and empty , the huge rooms barely lit by a few lamps placed here and there showing the furniture covered in drapes . |
| 27 | The patient improved at first but is now slipping back and a different set of symptoms has appeared . |
| 28 | Indeed I have my breakfast at dinner-time , somewhere around 11.30 a.m. that 's the time for the main meal of the day in farming circles since it is normal for those who live from the land to rise at first light . |
| 29 | The colonies had at first been left to look after themselves because the king had no money to spare for defending them nor any forces he could send across the Atlantic , but after 1650 it was accepted that the colonies had a right to expect to be protected against European attack , though not against Indian or other local problems . |
| 30 | Although the party had at first favoured the maintenance of two German states the Jan. 12-14 conference affirmed its policy goal to be " a united Germany … with the consent of our neighbours " . |