The phrase "an initial tip" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a first piece of advice or suggestion given in a particular context.
Example: "Before you start your journey, here’s an initial tip: always check the weather forecast."
Alternatives: "a first suggestion" or "a preliminary piece of advice."
One investigator, who asked not to be identified, said he got an initial tip about missing money involving a candidate to be a chief financial officer on the links.
In the case of the Ukraine-targeted Russian disop, Facebook says it removed a total of 107 Facebook Pages, Groups, and accounts, and 41 Instagram accounts, specifying that it was acting on an initial tip off from U.S. law enforcement.
The mode of interactions between the outer membrane factor and the membrane fusion protein is unresolved, with reports suggesting either a tip-to-tip interaction, the insertion of one into the other, or a multistage interaction with an initial tip-to-tip interaction, followed by sliding one through the channel of the other (Long et al., 2012).
Students were not notified of the situation until after an hour after the initial tip.
Mr. Yang, who received the initial tip, is a senior fellow of the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Social Sciences.
After a colleague, Colin MacKenzie, had received the initial tip, he, O'Flaherty and photographer Bill Lovelace set off to Rio de Janeiro and found their man.
An Iraqi informant provided the initial tip.
Finite element simulations of galvanized steels were subsequently developed with an initial crack tip located in the δ layer to determine the controlling parameters of the crack propagation and to assess the coatings' fracture parameter, critical far field stress, and stress distributions.
But the initial tip did not come from a phone call, email or letter.
Payton and Durant filed a motion for judgment as a matter of law or for a new trial, arguing, among other things, that there was insufficient evidence that Martin received a personal benefit in connection with making the initial tip and that Payton and Durant knew or had reason to know of Martin's personal benefit.
Since receiving the initial tip that there might be a larger and broader story in development, Iran has gone on to announce this morning that it will have a new generation of Uranium enrichment centrifuges online and operational by 2011.
