Example sentences of "[conj] on the first [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The huge interest generated in the share issue meant that on the first day of trading , the partially paid price of 50p immediately increased to 93p , which emphasised the extent of the undervaluation of the company ; the share price subsequently increased by even more . |
| 2 | And there we were thinking that it passed the 2m mark at the end of last year : IMB Corp says that on the first anniversary of the launch of OS/2 2.0 , it has shipped more than 2m copies , has more than 80 agreements with hardware vendors to package OS/2 on their systems , and that there are now 1,200 applications specifically written for it . |
| 3 | And on the first day of his eight-day tour of the Greek Islands with wife Lady Mills , it ‘ went ’ again and left him unable to walk . |
| 4 | Steam sprinklers were introduced and on the first day of their operation , they successfully doused another fire that would have probably removed the remainder of the factory had it taken hold . |
| 5 | On both his visits to Jerusalem and on the first visit to Amman Baker also met with Palestinian representatives , and he held talks with the main Palestinian pre-conference negotiators , Hanan Ashrawi , Faisal al-Husseini , Zakaria al-Agha and Sari Nusseibah , in Washington on Oct. 10-11 . |
| 6 | SSP is not payable if on the first day of the PIW your employee : |
| 7 | But on the first night at least Richard Hague 's careful Figaro seemed only part way there , tentative and restrained in his guile . |
| 8 | We shall treat them as a special type of word and give them the following rule : when a pair of prefix-plus-stem words exists , both members of which are spelt identically , one of which is a verb and the other is either a noun or an adjective , the stress will be placed on the second syllable of the verb but on the first syllable of the noun or adjective . |
| 9 | But on the first morning of the second week Iskandara came into the drawing-room , where Alexandra chose to write her letters instead of using the boudoir upstairs as Janet wished her to do , and silently put Aunt Emily 's journal down in front of her daughter . |