Example sentences of "[noun] at the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Proponents of community policing often feel dismayed at the recklessness with which carefully cultivated relationships are undermined by the authorisation of ‘ fire brigade ’ tactics at the first suggestion of disorder . |
| 2 | It would be a marvellous feat if the 22-year-old swimming pool attendant from Wakefield was to supercede Hare at the first attempt . |
| 3 | One patient originally included in the study had acute colitis and a high level of IgG anti-lactoferrin at the first sampling occasion , and a further raised anti-lactoferrin level in a later serum sample ( not illustrated ) . |
| 4 | After the Lord Mayor 's Show came the dust cart and the ignominy of defeat at the first hurdle next year . |
| 5 | But I 've come to accept that it 's far more sensitive and vulnerable than my other possessions and it can not be hauled back to the manufacturers at the first sign of malfunction . |
| 6 | Can you see how West could have defended the hand better other than leading a Club at the first trick ? |
| 7 | Make friends with your accounts department at the first opportunity . |
| 8 | These include calling in the fire brigade at the first sign of what they quaintly call ‘ smouldering in senile machinery ’ and ejecting all the customers forthwith , and not opening stations if the required number of staff ( two on the smaller stations ) have failed to turn up . |
| 9 | He defeated fellow Scot Colin Montgomerie at the first hole of a sudden-death decider after the pair had tied on three-over-par 287 . |
| 10 | Sole contender to get over the 23rd fence at the first attempt in a huge pile-up in 1967 , the moderate , blinkered Foinavon held on to his unexpected lead all the way to the winning post , seven lonely fences later , to beat Honey End with Red Alligator , who won it next year , third . |
| 11 | Buckingham did not realise at first that he had been the only one to get over the 23rd fence at the first attempt . |
| 12 | In slow , careful English , she asked the gentlemen at the first table , ‘ You are ready to order ? ’ |
| 13 | Though second at the first GP , his subsequent results did n't seem to suggest he 'd be fighting for the title . |
| 14 | The ‘ development theory ’ made it too easy to claim that a state 's interests were at stake at the first sign of legitimate criticism . |
| 15 | I cleared the bar at the first height , then at the second height , but on the third attempt I knocked the bar over . |
| 16 | A Sky spokesman added : ‘ We agreed to a police request that Bobby Gould should not be at the ground , even though he worked for us in the same capacity at the first match between the two sides . ’ |
| 17 | Edna enlarged upon how well Karen had done at college , how , although she was the youngest in her family , she was always being called upon whenever she was at home to help out with other people 's children , how she had passed her driving test at the first attempt . |
| 18 | GRAN Dot Ransom , former mayoress of Warwick , has passed her driving test at the first attempt — at the age of 70 . |
| 19 | Henry Calverley won the arrow at the first meeting at Scorton , but it was not held there again until 1754 , so it may be that he was keeping this promise . |
| 20 | Eleven patients with incomplete stone clearance at the first procedure underwent a second ( nine ) or third ( two ) cholecystolithotomy after redilatation of the percutaneous tract . |
| 21 | Bernhard Langer got the first blow in by hitting a great second shot over the Swilcan Burn at the first hole to only a few inches , about a foot I guess , and birdied to go one nearer the lead . |
| 22 | Richard believes his playing at matches inspires the team and he said : ‘ I did it for a laugh at the first home game but now it 's taken off . |
| 23 | ‘ My dad says give us a kiss , ’ shouted a little boy at the first stop in Rhyl . |
| 24 | The jokes ended abruptly when he crashed his Ducados NSR at the first turn of the ‘ 88 Spanish 250 GP at Jarama , losing his helmet and sustaining serious head injuries . |
| 25 | Many women with adverse living circumstances at the first interview will have had one or two psychiatric symptoms and would be particularly likely to benefit from social support . |
| 26 | Like she was high , not on booze or pills but some of that good mellow shit that used to go the rounds at the first dinner parties I ever went to , at Liza 's place , when the world was young and lovable . |
| 27 | Steps one and two takes place at the first appointment and steps three and four at the second . |
| 28 | This may take place at the first meeting with the client , though for larger assignments a site visit and access to confidential material may be necessary before such an assessment can be properly made . |
| 29 | This may take place at the first meeting with the client , although for larger assignments access to confidential material may be necessary before such an assessment can be made . |
| 30 | It was clear that the Government were not able to get their legislation right at the first attempt . |