Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] at the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the Second Ballot the winning candidate must poll more than half the votes to be elected at the first ballot . |
| 2 | In the case of a licensing board for a district or division of a district , the members were to be elected at the first meeting of the district council after its ordinary election in 1977 and thereafter after every ordinary election . |
| 3 | Not only had the reception of The Family Reunion been altogether more favourable than the ill-started attempt in 1939 , but both this play and Murder in the Cathedral were to be performed at the first Edinburgh Festival in the following year . |
| 4 | You do n't want to be falling at the first . ’ |
| 5 | Pink tablets to be taken at the first sign of symptoms and Yellow tablets that only need to be taken if symptoms persist . |
| 6 | Had the hernia been strangulated , action would have had to be taken at the first sign of trouble . |