Example sentences of "at the first [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If bankers simply sell property at the first sign that anybody is willing to buy it , they will do themselves and the property market a disservice . |
| 2 | All this , one may presume further , was supposed to supply the missing will and determination of the indigenous people and just in case the French might be feeling a little faint-hearted at the prospect , the US should immediately reconsider its policy at the first sign that the French were planning to give up or even if they planned to take the problem to the UN . |
| 3 | Instead , people learn to back off at the first sign that somebody might disapprove . |
| 4 | She sipped the wine , picked at the first course and let James Hamilton carry the conversation . |
| 5 | Before midday we arrive at the first village and are met by the Mukhtar , Hadji Hanna . |
| 6 | There was , of course , now a great deal more interest in Eliot than in the play , but he had stipulated in advance that he was not to be subjected to any form of publicity : no press conferences , no interviews , no speeches ; as a result , he was much more relaxed at the first night and was even able to laugh at his own jokes . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And she would have to smile at the first question and say , ‘ Oh , no , no , of course lot . |
| 9 | It sounded as though the lift stopped at the first floor but immediately the sounds resumed and it was rising , she thought , to the second floor . |
| 10 | The lift stopped at the first floor where they glimpsed Jeffrey Archer saying goodbye to a departing guest . |
| 11 | The lift came to rest at the first floor and the door slid open . |
| 12 | Our thanks are also , of course , extended to , who has so professionally , purposefully and cheerfully dealt with hiccups such as the extra numbers at the first seminar and so on . |
| 13 | I holed a good putt for a birdie at the first hole and that set me up , ’ she said . |
| 14 | The implication is that Pope John sided with the minority at the first session and was ‘ upset ’ ( as the minority often asserted ) at the rejection of such excellent drafts . |
| 15 | I realized I would need to convince them at the first opportunity that I was primarily a practical policeman and not an academic ; and I also noted that while the college was keen to list the academic qualifications of those on the course , the participants quickly justified Lewis 's assertions by playing them down to emphasize their history of praxis and practical mastery . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He had curled up on to his bed at the first opportunity and fallen fast asleep . |
| 18 | To do this properly you need to hold the strings down at the first fret and measure from the top of the pickup polepiece to the underside of the strings . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm afraid water is all we have , ’ she muttered , clutching at the first diversion that occurred to her . |
| 20 | In principle there was no distinction between indirect interference at the first stage and such interference at a remoter stage , but the more indirect and remote the interference , the more difficult it may be to establish on the facts that A did intend to interfere with the particular contract relied on by the plaintiff and that that interference was a necessary consequence of A 's wrongful act . |
| 21 | Data from one patient at the first stage and another one at the second stage and from two volunteers had to be excluded because of appreciable probe drift , apparent at probe calibration after the test . |
| 22 | The guys at ADM Computing suggested at the first meeting that I save a few quid by opting for a Phillips Brilliance monitor instead of the NEC I 've coveted for a year . |
| 23 | Weak clients , i.e. those lacking confidence , may not perform well at the first meeting but normally go through a sharp learning curve . |
| 24 | This is generally observed at the first meeting and to a somewhat lesser extent at subsequent meetings . |
| 25 | I took off at the first light and made the rendezvous as planned and found the fighters had just become airborne . |
| 26 | Bryan Thomson 's match was already at the first tee when Patrick strolled up with the bag of clubs over his shoulder . |
| 27 | If one manages to find the simplest method at the first attempt that can mostly be attributed to good luck . |
| 28 | I 'm to walk along Crane Street from the city end , turn right at the first corner , right again at the first comer and just keep on like that . ’ |
| 29 | Karl paused at the first block and then started back , looking truly astonished . |
| 30 | Plan A almost fell at the first fence as Trippy and the rest of the squat seemed to have been having an end-of-season sale in Trippy 's medicine chest . |