Example sentences of "[prep] the first [noun] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Albanian authorities on Feb. 22 , 1990 , published for the first time information on the size of the country 's prison population . |
| 2 | These houses , the homes of the first pottery makers on Crete , had rectangular rooms and were made without stone footings . |
| 3 | But hopes of a quick and cheap victory , raised by the seemingly unblemished success of the first surprise attack on the night of January 16th-17th , are fading . |
| 4 | The sidings , which became known as Thornton Gate , opened with the arrival of the first coal train on September 23 1927 . |
| 5 | The precise nature of the impact of the first world war on the fortunes of the Labour Party remains open to debate . |
| 6 | He became one of the first football commentators on radio , copying the urgent , excitable American style of the ‘ gee-whizzers ’ , earning himself the nickname of ‘ By Jove ’ Allison on the way . |
| 7 | For example , when dealing with the Vikings , a teacher might start with an account of the first Viking raid on Britain : Never before has such a terror been known in Britain . |
| 8 | Vice-president MacFarlane will have plenty on his plate now as he tries to pull all the ideas together into the first draft paper on the way to creating the eventual plan for formal consideration in November . |
| 9 | The principal point made in the first discussion paper on Finance is that the United Kingdom in 1973/74 contributed £313 million towards the support of Northern Ireland services , the equivalent of £200 per annum per head of the population . |
| 10 | Yes it 's great , I mean in the first year lecture on Tuesday erm in the break I gave them in the middle of it the the corridor was like thick with tobacco smoke y'know you could hardly |
| 11 | When a page is called up , the cursor is positioned in the first input field on the page , ie. where information may be entered . |
| 12 | The responses to the first consultation document on the proposal on the contrary indicated that constituent authorities were very much in favour . |
| 13 | On the first tentacle pore on the arm there may be two large flat leaf shaped tentacle scales . |
| 14 | Mr McIntyre represented the Library at the first East/West conference on the conservation of library materials held in Budapest in September ; he presented a paper on ‘ Risk Management ’ and acted as Conference Chairman on the final day . |
| 15 | Meetings now on Thursdays , which means you can still attend practices at the First Aid Post on Wednesdays . ’ |
| 16 | THE government 's programme of forcibly repatriating Vietnamese boat people will proceed despite the international outcry provoked by the first removal operation on Monday night . |