Example sentences of "[prep] the first [noun sg] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so I did not expect my feet to be trouble-free after using them for the first time on a full day 's hiking in the Purbeck Hills . |
| 2 | The formative period from 1850 to 1914 witnessed the birth of a clearly identifiable movement , with labour organising for the first time on a massive scale . |
| 3 | Not for the first time on a trip , the naturalist , writer and traveller Redmond O'Hanlon fantasized about waking between crisp , dry sheets . |
| 4 | People who hear themselves for the first time on a tape-recorder often find it hard to believe that the stranger talking is actually them . |
| 5 | One day , in Times Square , Dustin looked up and saw his face for the first time on a billboard . |
| 6 | It required absolutely no breaking in and I wore it for the first time on a nine hour Scottish hill day during the May heatwave in complete comfort . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I saw Begampur for the first time on a hot evening in early May . |
| 9 | In its conference call with analysts yesterday morning , IBM said that its outlook continues to be difficult and uncertain in light of the destabilisation of its hardware business , and that sales of mainframes declined in a ‘ high double digit ’ rate in the first quarter on a year-to-year basis and that sales the AS/400 declined in all major geographies . |
| 10 | In its conference call with analysts yesterday morning , IBM said that its outlook continues to be difficult and uncertain in light of the destabilisation of its hardware business , and that sales of mainframes declined in a ‘ high double digit ’ rate in the first quarter on a year-to-year basis and that sales the AS/400 declined in all major geographies . |
| 11 | The basic examination should consist of : ( a ) an interview with frequent switching from language to language ; ( b ) an improvised short speech in the first language on a topic chosen at random , to assess general knowledge ; ( c ) non-technical information in one language to be rendered consecutively in a second language ; ( d ) translation from a text off-the-cuff . |