Example sentences of "first at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 11th Great Warbirds Air display was also the first at the new venue of Wroughton . |
| 2 | The centre hopes that Shashis success is just the first at the new Winwood clinic . |
| 3 | Since about 1938 Ho had been in China , first at the communist headquarters in Yenan then , apparently , with Chinese Nationalist forces , finally in Kwangsi and Yunnan which were close enough for him to attempt to resume contact with the Party inside Vietnam . |
| 4 | Where the wording of the expert clause is ambiguous , the court will look first at the other words in the document to resolve the ambiguity : see 8.17.3 and the decision summarised there in Langham House Developments Ltd v Brompton Securities Ltd ( 1980 ) 256 EG 719 . |
| 5 | Moving into the chapel itself , look first at the interior decoration . |
| 6 | But let's look first at the visible problems , realising the need for fun , not for a fruitless day 's digging or waiting around for ferrets that are none too likely to return to the surface once allowed underground . |
| 7 | This followed first place in the European championships at Falkirk , runners-up in the world championship in Glasgow and first at the prestigious Cowal Gathering . |
| 8 | We look first at the changing overall pattern of lending . |
| 9 | Looking first at the Labour Party , its doctrine or beliefs are now by no means as clear cut as when the party constitution was adopted in 1918 . |
| 10 | The present paper looks first at the general context of the discussions within Ashdown School and then outlines some of the issues that emerged from the research . |
| 11 | Policies differ , but let's look first at the basic type which covers buildings and/or contents against a set list of risks such as fire , theft , subsidence and earthquakes . |
| 12 | For in 1904 Lincoln Bush patented the Bush shed and installed the first at the Hoboken station of the Delaware , Lackawanna and Western Railroad in 1906 . |
| 13 | On the rostrum Joey said : ‘ You really need to be the first man at the Metropole if you want to be first at the finishing line . ’ |
| 14 | It is best to look first at the main themes of the books as a whole , and then examine the significance of these introductory chapters . |
| 15 | Again and again , Dorian Gray went secretly to the room and looked first at the ugly and terrible face in the picture , then at the beautiful young face that laughed back at him from the mirror . |
| 16 | The fibres from the receiving station of the inner ear , the organ of Corti synapse first at the cochlear nucleus . |
| 17 | Artemis said , staring first at the red-faced gentleman and then back at her nanny . |