Example sentences of "[prep] the first [noun] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just a few of the many comments received from those who attended the very successful Easter Course , held for the first tile at Norwich City College . |
| 2 | Yet for the first half at least , one is carried along by McBride 's sheer charm and inventiveness , qualities shared by fellow Live regular Dave Whitaker and Su Elliott , who perform more than 20 characters between them . |
| 3 | No books or videos are likely to be totally adequate to prepare one , for example , for the first day at ‘ big ’ school , but they may provide some insights and ‘ structures ’ so that the experience is not overwhelming . |
| 4 | Estimates of these costs put the average direct costs of a baby for the first year at at least £1 500 , running to £30 000 by the time the child reaches 16 . |
| 5 | The hotel has targeted its occupancy for the first year at 55 per cent , which , Mr Nitschke says , is realistic . |
| 6 | Part of a silver table service made by Lieberkuhn for the first banquet at Sanssouci , held in 1747 to celebrate the opening of the palace has been reassembled , together with portraits of the king and his family , including nineteenth-century scenes such as Menzel 's ‘ Flute concert at Sanssouci ’ . |
| 7 | England sprang a surprise by recalling 45-year-old Brian Close for the first Test at Nottingham . |
| 8 | The selectors kept faith and picked him for the first Test at Edgbaston , where he bowled 42 overs without trouble , taking four wickets in his maiden Test , which England won , fairly comfortably , but 100 runs . |
| 9 | Changes must be made to the attack for the first Test at Old Trafford next month but pacemen Andy Caddick , Paul Jarvis and Chris Lewis now have just one more chance to prove they should remain for the Ashes opener . |
| 10 | Igglesden is still troubled by the groin strain which forced him to pull out of the squad for the first Test at Old Trafford while McCague was nursing a pulled hamstring . |
| 11 | On May 5 the Foreign Ministers of East and West Germany and of the four major victorious allied powers of the Second World War — France , the Soviet Union , the United Kingdom and the United States — met in Bonn , the West German capital , for the first meeting at this level in the so-called " two-plus-four " discussions on the security implications of German unification [ see pp. 37259-60 for February agreement on talks ] . |
| 12 | More recently , it was impossible to forget how he personally had been let down over the reserves pledged for the first phase at Verdun . |
| 13 | DTS will show the Harris 20–20 Accommodator hotel communication system for the first time at the show . |
| 14 | It 'd be easier if we met my troops for the first time at the concert , ’ he said . |
| 15 | ‘ When my father , six months before his death , saw the car for the first time at the Paris show — where he decided to go even though his health was not good — he fell in love with it immediately . |
| 16 | The completed cycle was screened in its entirety for the first time at the Venice Festival this autumn . |
| 17 | Hall , in fact , might well have won in straight games , as he led 9-6 in the opening game and then missed four successive smashes to allow Baddeley to go ahead for the first time at 10-9 . |
| 18 | Hall , in fact , might well have won in straight games , as he led 9-6 in the opening game and then missed four successive smashes to allow Baddeley to go ahead for the first time at 10-9 . |
| 19 | Warwicks-based Turner World Mowers ' first UK-designed and built machine is the Reachmaster 800SE long reach mower , shown for the first time at the recent Association of Drainage Authorities show . |
| 20 | Whether flockmasters wanted it or not , one was on view for the first time at the Llanelwedd event . |
| 21 | Hundreds of these youngsters were hearing French or English for the first time at , for example , a lecture on the Lake Poets . |
| 22 | PENNY HASSET * , who showed marked improvement when encountering heavy ground for the first time at Wolverhampton recently , should make the most of similar conditions on her return to the course for today 's Daffodil Handicap ( 5.0 ) . |
| 23 | 3D cinema THE NEXT generation of cinema technology from Imax will be shown in Europe for the first time at the Expo ‘ 92 world fair in Seville , which begins this month . |
| 24 | That great convenience of Victorian house planning , the luggage entrance , was introduced for the first time at Dupplin as early as 1829 . |
| 25 | Gedge 's parents say the band live for the first time at Manchester 's salubrious Ritz Club . |
| 26 | I was abused for the first time at three years old . |
| 27 | It will go on show for the first time at the Biotech ‘ 83 exhibition in London next month . |
| 28 | The specifications of November 1939 became a reality just 43 years ago , when a CW pump evacuated model with sealing wax joints was switched on for the first time at the end of February 1940 , and operated successfully . |
| 29 | Ho looked round for the first time at the massed ranks of Glories with their headlights blazing , and the two figures , stark in the hard glaring light of those headlights , seated opposite each other at the stone table under the Monument . |
| 30 | When Roe won for the first time at the Catalan Open in 1989 , it was predicted that he would become a regular winner on Tour . |