Example sentences of "the first [noun pl] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emily and her husband , and little Alexander were the first residents at No 28 . |
| 2 | But you see , Mrs Sutherland , he handled that and being one of the first non-whites at St Andrew 's School . |
| 3 | In the country of Giurgiu , to the south of the capital , Ceauşescu himself supervised the first demolitions at the end of July 1988 . |
| 4 | Nicholson was one of the first students at the college to which A. W. Hofmann was appointed professor . |
| 5 | THE first students at Aquinas College , Stockport , who have studied on a BTEC course , had an assignment to set up and run a branch of the Yorkshire Bank in college . |
| 6 | There is no easy solution to this one , other than doing the first ones at a safe altitude , which means at some speed since it is difficult to fly slowly at any height or distance . |
| 7 | The first barbers at Rome , of Sicilian origin , were said to have arrived in the city in 300 BC , after which date the Romans were clean-shaven . |
| 8 | Store manager Paul Ainger and retail director Colin Harvey welcome the first customers at the front door . |
| 9 | A generation of politicians is now in power whose opinions have been shaped not only by the Stalinist dictatorship but also by the defeat of the first attempts at reform . |
| 10 | But Hardin was writing long before the avalanche of discoveries that have revealed the fine structure of the human genetic material , spawned sensitive techniques of screening and most recently pre-implantation diagnosis , and led to the first attempts at gene therapy . |
| 11 | The first attempts at producing a problem-solving machine , or computer , were made during the Second World War as Allied scientists sought to break enemy codes . |
| 12 | ‘ But we will have the first National Hunt racing on all-weather anywhere in the world at our first meeting ( Lingfield 's opening card is all Flat ) and we are also staging the first trials at racing pace on the new surface ( they take place on Sunday ) . ’ |
| 13 | We 're going to be the first men at the South Pole , and that flag is going to be first , too ! ’ |
| 14 | Then , we wanted to be the first men at the North Pole . |
| 15 | It pushes back , to a disconcertingly early period in Pound 's life , the first signs of that aridity , that closing of the doors of perception , which — drastically arrested and reversed though it was , at Pisa and through the first years at St Elizabeth 's — reasserted itself and wreaked the desolation of Thrones . |
| 16 | The genesis of BT in the first years at Basle is , we shall see , problematic . |
| 17 | The first years at Basle were , for Nietzsche , the Tribschen years . |
| 18 | Since the first disappointments at Verdun , the All-Highest had withdrawn still further into his fairy-tale world , a world whose contact with reality relied principally upon those improbable ‘ trench anecdotes ’ that were imported from the front for his insatiable consumption ; or often simply invented . |
| 19 | " I was tip nearly all night because I had to lead the first devotions at the High Council , with all those experienced and senior leaders of the Army world . " |
| 20 | That lost cause was started in 1861 by Citadel cadets who fired the first shots at Fort Sumter , outside Charleston . |