Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] at the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trident was hugely expensive — £10 billion at the first assessment alone . |
| 2 | APR 1993 At the first TOP Surgery Allan Paterson met team leaders to find out first hand the progress of their teams . |
| 3 | Payne took the Balearic Open with a par 4 at the first extra hole after he and Sweden 's Anders Gillner had tied on 277 , 11-under-par . |
| 4 | Goran Hadzic , leader of the Serbian enclave of Western Slavonia , was elected by 230 votes with six abstentions as Babic 's replacement in Borovo Selo on Feb. 26 at the first joint session of the assemblies of Serbian Krajina , the Autonomous Region of Western Slavonia , and the Serbian Region of Slavonia , Baranja and Western Srem . |
| 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 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 . |
| 7 | A conversation with Lloyd Walters recorded at the first annual meeting of the Association of Pole-lathe Turners , September 1990 . |
| 8 | Roundhay3 , Richmond50MARTIN LIVESEY , Richmond 's free-scoring outside-half , cast off any doubts about his fitness by leading his club 's impressive surge back into Courage League Two at the first attempt . |
| 9 | ‘ We saw nothing today to convince us that we ca n't get out of North One at the first attempt , ’ he said . |
| 10 | 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 . |