Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the first [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were in London for rehearsals at the Globe , and the actors put on the new play for the first time on the 29th of June , 1613 . |
| 2 | Captain Naas Botha said ‘ We want a repeat of our match against the Midlands in midweek when we played effective rugby for the full 80 minutes for the first time on tour . |
| 3 | The majority are fitted in quite neatly , but the addition of a sentence after the first quotation on page 34 makes the referent of " Another possibility " , which opens the next sentence , ambiguous . |
| 4 | When , for example , establishment actor Raymond Massey saw James Dean in action for the first time on the set of East of Eden , emitting as he did a stream of sexual and genital adjectives , Massey stormed off the set declaring , ‘ I have never experienced anything like this in my entire life . |
| 5 | When the effect of one cell on another is directly by way of a modification of the synapse that the first cell makes on the second , this is known as a homosynaptic effect ; when the effect of the first cell on the second is modulated by the behaviour of a third cell synapsing on either of the other two , this is called a heterosynaptic effect . |
| 6 | The saloon , or drawing room , extends the full width of the first floor on the east side above the dining room . |
| 7 | He replaces Ian St John as Jimmy Greaves sidekick analysing the region 's best action from the first division on The Central Match LIVE . |
| 8 | Two further rounds of voting in the multiparty elections to the National Assembly took place on Oct. 21 and 28 following the suspension and partial annulment of the first round on Sept. 21 [ p. 37701 ] , which had been characterized by disorder and irregularities . |
| 9 | This cycle is shown in the left-hand part of the first chart on this page ( borrowed from Alan Budd , the chief economist of Barclays Bank ) . |
| 10 | The next day we spent the forenoon ashore at Smeerenburg looking at the remains of the old Dutch whaling-station , and setting our feet for the first time on the Spitsbergen tundra . |
| 11 | The old flag was raised over the Supreme Soviet building in Riga for the first time on Feb. 27 . |
| 12 | Last week at the Sybase User Conference , Microsoft showed off a prototype 32-bit version of SQL Server designed to exploit NT 's multiprocessing architecture for the first time on a NCR 486 MP machine . |
| 13 | using the yellow latch tool , pick up the left half of the first stitch on the right into the hook . |
| 14 | Champions Hampshire are at home to Dorset in the first round on June 24 , while Durham make their first NatWest Trophy appearance as a first-class county against Ireland in Dublin . |
| 15 | Tapie 's suit will aim to force the French Federation and French League to name Marseille as the country 's representatives to play AEK Athens in the first round on September 15 . |
| 16 | And , in the Soviet analysis , the land owned by the nobility was the crucial issue in the first revolution on the agenda . |
| 17 | United will be at home in the first leg on September the twenty second and away at Villa Park two weeks later . |
| 18 | I saw Begampur for the first time on a hot evening in early May . |
| 19 | Environmentalists dubbed it a failure for this reason , but acknowledged its importance as the first occasion on which all major world governments had agreed that global warming was a reality . |
| 20 | His pedigree may be long , but nevertheless here he is on piano and electronic keyboards leading his own band for the first time on disc with the driving drums of Jeff ‘ Tain ’ Watts ( also of Branford Marsalis group fame ) , Branford himself on tenor sax , Roderick Ward ( alto sax ) , Charnett Moffett , Chris McBridge , Robert Hurst or Andy Gonzales ( all alternating on bass ) , Jerry Gonzales ( percussion ) and on one track Steve Berrios and on two Don Alias ( both on drums , percussion ) . |
| 21 | 8/Face sketched in lightly , eyes are lowered as is the custom in San'a to be as demure as possible if not a little apprehensive and afraid at the prospect of meeting your husband for the first time on your wedding night . |
| 22 | The Cabinet 's Social Security Committee met in the Downing Street Cabinet room for the first time on Wednesday 6 February 1985 . |
| 23 | Likewise , taking expectations of the first term on the right-hand side of equation ( 3.40 ) gives . |
| 24 | They were the basis of the first textbook on chemical engineering which Davis published in 1901 . |
| 25 | There was a striking coincidence in the appearance of the first text on the evils of onanism ( which included both masturbation and coitus interruptus ) with the sheath being first advertised , in the mid-eighteenth century , and this suggests that most of the early tracts were probably addressed to adults . |
| 26 | One can chart the seasons by the changes in the paintings : the appearance of the first Impressionists on the walls in early November always tell me it 's time to get out the winter overcoat . |
| 27 | Bracknell defeated Keflavik 106-91 in Iceland on Thursday for a 250-196 aggregate win , and are at home to Milan in the first leg on Thursday 26 October . |
| 28 | I had hot water for the first time on the island . |
| 29 | Rainbow searches for the first step on the yellow brick road , the gate to the Emerald City . |
| 30 | They saw each other for the first time on the fourth night of the marriage ceremonies and now have a son . |