Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the first day of " in BNC.
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| 1 | instead the Church preferred to use the Annunciation for the first day of the year , and this led to the adoption of 25 March , nine months before Christmas , although this choice was by no means universal . |
| 2 | This is likely to be your most fertile day , as it is not unusual to detect your surge on the first day of testing . |
| 3 | Mounds of legal documents were brought to the Court House in Whitminster for the first day of the case between B & Q and Gloucester City Council . |
| 4 | Peterle said that he did not view the planned date of Slovenia 's declaration of independence as the first day of full independence , but rather as a step in a gradual process . |
| 5 | How long do you sit in the sun on the first day of your holiday ? |
| 6 | The body of Kevin McEvoy was discovered at 7.15am yesterday by a 14-year-old girl on the first day of her new job as a papergirl . |
| 7 | As I walked to the hotel one of the Turkish rafters rushed towards me with a copy of Turkey 's most popular article about the first day of the trip with a picture of my good self and another British journalist , both wrapped in blankets looking forlorn . |
| 8 | These elections concluded the business of the first day of the Leeds Congress , on which , in the words of the preamble to the constitution of the BDDA : The Deaf and Dumb of Great Britain and Ireland agree[d] to form themselves into an Association for the advancement and protection of their interests in every possible way ( in such a manner as will not interfere with the work of the existing societies ) . |
| 9 | There is no escape from it — that Damocles sword of a war on the first day of which all the chartered covenants of princes will be scattered like chaff : a race war which will subject the whole of Europe to devastation by fifteen or twenty million , and which is not raging already because even the strongest of the great military states shrinks before the absolute incalculability of its final result . |
| 10 | To mark the occasion , a commemorative tree-planting ceremony will take place on the first day of the championships . |
| 11 | It 's like if you fall out with a teacher on the first day of term , if that teacher |
| 12 | Brussels : Renewed confidence on the first day of the new forward account enabled shares to close firmer in heavy trading . |
| 13 | Robert Mantack from Swindon arrived at Bristol Crown Court for the first day of his trial . |
| 14 | Margaret Elder was giving evidence on the first day of the fatal accident inquiry into drugs deaths in Glasgow . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | As for budgeting , my first assistant Micky Obbs is on a half-pay retainer until the first day of Principal Photography , along with Des Blackadder and Kevin Skuse . |
| 17 | It is always advisable to have the mare and foal checked over by your veterinary surgeon during the first day of life . |
| 18 | 24 year old Shaun Gooch and 22 year old Anthony Gallagher , both from Swindon arrived at Gloucester Crown Court this morning for the first day of their trial . |
| 19 | It is not clear whether such an adjourned meeting requires to take place within one month of the first day of the quarterly board meeting in virtue of the provisions of s.4(2) of the Act . |
| 20 | The pattern of the first day of the autumn term was fixed ; the first-years , who had arrived at their halls of residence the day before , came to the department in the morning to sign up for various optional courses . |
| 21 | A meeting of a licensing board can not be adjourned beyond the period of one month from the first day of the meeting . |
| 22 | There are far worse things an aspiring Test opener can do , moreover , than score a century in full view of the captain on the first day of the season . |
| 23 | I do n't think either of us likes it very much , but it 's part of the image , so we bought a packet of Gauloises in yellow paper on the first day of the Great Famine , and have rationed them strictly , just as if we were in prison . |
| 24 | The front-page coverage on the first day of the trial — FREED RAPIST ‘ CAME BACK TO KILL' ( Daily Mirror ) — revealed that a rapist had returned from jail after being released to murder his victim . |
| 25 | Mr Thompson , 42 , of Chelmsford , Essex , was murdered in October in a hotel car park on the first day of his holiday . |
| 26 | Despite these I always took a last look at the course on the first day of the tournament . |
| 27 | It 's ten minutes to showtime on the first day of Lollapalooza , and the floorboards in the backstage enclosure vibrate with the approach of the humungous Boo Yaa Tribe . |
| 28 | The letter quoted above was begun at Didcot Station , then continued at his Cowley Road digs , and rounded off at the end of the first day of the Scholarship exam after six hours of hard writing . |
| 29 | On the other hand , the tender offer by Hillsdown Holdings resulted in a stagging profit as the price at the end of the first day of trading was 33p higher than the striking price of 145p ( minimum 120p ) . |
| 30 | The most important feature is the reservoir of larvae in the tissues of the cow , with subsequent milk-borne transmission ensuring that calves are exposed to infection from the first day of life . |