Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun sg] on the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quality standards and Rule 15 place great emphasis on the first letter to the client . |
| 2 | Although they continued throughout to support Mrs Thatcher , a number were known privately to have expressed the belief that a failure to secure outright victory on the first ballot might irretrievably damage her authority and force her to stand down . |
| 3 | The votes apportioned as provided in paragraph ( b ) above shall be totalled and the candidate receiving more than half of the votes shall be declared elected and if no candidate reaches this total on the first ballot further ballots should be held on an elimination basis . |
| 4 | They the Adventurers however , had profited to the amount only of £412 : 12s. 9d … without reckoning any interest on the first outlay . |
| 5 | All the commissions , and you only get paid I say only you get paid commission on the first year . |
| 6 | WORK is to start next month on the first stage of a £6.5m road scheme to improve access to Teesside Airport and better links between Darlington and Cleveland . |
| 7 | WORK is to start next month on the first stage of a £6.5m scheme to improve access to Teesside Airport and the link between Darlington and Cleveland . |
| 8 | Its stairs and passages are crowded with students ; the air is loud with their shouts and laughter as they greet each other on the first day of the new term . |
| 9 | In recent years we have been witnessing an attempt to place more emphasis on the first two purposes of education to redress what is considered an imbalance in favour of the third in the three decades following the 1944 Education Act . |
| 10 | She put one foot on the first step . |