Example sentences of "at [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | After being pegged at 4–4 following the first frame of the evening session , Hendry raised his game to collect the £40,000 first prize — and become Masters champion for the first time . |
| 2 | The procedure will be started at 17.50 on the first available evening after receipt of the form . |
| 3 | The procedure will be started at 17.50 on the first available evening following receipt of the form . |
| 4 | The procedure will be started at 17.50 on the first available evening after receipt of the form . |
| 5 | The procedure will usually be started at 17.50 on the first available evening after receipt of the form . |
| 6 | This elder statesman of golf , 50 this year , had birdies at each of the first three holes , though the promise was not maintained . |
| 7 | The in-betweens , a group of five fields ( Cumberland , Durham , Derbyshire , Lancashire — or Northwest — and Northumberland ) which provided the 55 per cent vote at each of the first two ballots but on average produced only 42 per cent support for the strike call across the other four . |
| 8 | There had been in the brilliantly brave ace at 5–6 in the first set tie break , which denied Sampras the set point he had earned with an ace of his own . |
| 9 | ' … in that case at least this House must go beyond the point certified and hear and decide the second point which may have no connection at all with the first . ’ |
| 10 | The whole character of the game has been changed by a goal which er suddenly has brought to life in a way which we did n't see at all for the first half . |
| 11 | Newson and Newson ( 1.3 ) suggest that it is only in this century that questions about how to bring up children have been widely discussed ; hitherto the niceties of different child-rearing philosophies were set aside in the face of a more fundamental dilemma , whether children would survive at all beyond the first few years . |
| 12 | The real failures are those who give up and do n't attempt to succeed at all after the first setback . |
| 13 | Ladbrokes quote her at 40–1 for the first Classic of 1994 . |
| 14 | Gazza headed home Signori 's free kick to tie the scores at 1-1 in the first half but took a knock on the ankle just before halftime and was less influential in the second half . |
| 15 | I remember a man with a family of several young children who worked at the plant saying at one of the first local public meetings I addressed that it would certainly change his mind about nuclear power if the link with leukaemia was substantiated . |
| 16 | To look at this Daguerreotype is to look at one of the first photographic pictures of a city . |
| 17 | We can consider these problems and get a sense of how online multimedia might work in practice by looking at one of the first projects to attempt to offer multimedia online database services . |
| 18 | The bowling rate for each batsman should start off at Slow for the first ‘ over ’ of six balls , then go to Medium for the next over , and Fast for the third over ; this sequence then repeating if the same batsman is still at the crease . |
| 19 | The spokesman for the First World War Veterans ' Association , Trafford joined up at 15 on the first day of the war , giving his age as 18 . |
| 20 | Well , there are millions of people who are missing from electoral registers , who are people who are entitled to be registered and the problem is probably the greatest among those who are known as attainers and are qualifying for registration at eighteen for the first time in their lives , the numbers of attainers er qualifying has reduced percentage wise , year by year , especially since the introduction of the poll tax and has not been rectified by the measures that remove the poll tax . |
| 21 | The latter design , meanwhile , required a net comprising two identical grids of spaced squares , in staggered formation , but with one grid superimposed on and at 450 to the first . |
| 22 | At 03.50 on the first day of the attack , 12 infantry divisions went forward in heavy mist . |