Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] on the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An unused kitchen located on the first floor of this block , provided the necessary space for a new Staff Room , Kitchenette and Toilets , with supplementary Staff Toilets , Lockers and Resources Area being located in the link to the three storey block . |
| 2 | The monument stands on the first cross-roads in front of the Carmel Road entrance to West Cemetery . |
| 3 | The club meets on the first Wednesday of the month at . |
| 4 | When something in that costly box of tricks above the pool side malfunctioned on the first night at the Grove , they had no option but to call on a back-up team of stopwatch timekeepers . |
| 5 | a letter or figure printed on the first page of each section of a book and used as a guide when collating and binding . |
| 6 | The theatre 's fully licensed lounge bar situated on the first floor . |
| 7 | ‘ One grain of corn placed on the first square on the board . |
| 8 | With a piercing whine and a cough , the engine caught on the first ignition . |
| 9 | Figure 5 a compares the two independent examples of this contact by a superposition based on the first domains of molecule 1 from each pair . |
| 10 | ALL seems right with the world and you are sure God is in His Heaven when the sun shines on the first morning of a major sporting event . |
| 11 | When the delegates from Western literature meet on the first day to pray for their existence , there is an attempted disruption of the ceremony by Muslim fundamentalists who claim to object to the Christian format of the proceedings , but , as we later discover , their real target is the elusive Gibreel Farishta whom they are trying to punish for his heretical views . |
| 12 | The funeral liturgy included a mass for the dead , but to take full advantage of the memorial rite , masses had also to be sung on the third , seventh and thirtieth days following burial and , to complete the calendar of commemoration , the ‘ obit ’ : a mass sung on the first anniversary of the death . |
| 13 | It is likely that there were windows of appearance located on the first floors of the Minoan temples , overlooking both West and Central Courts . |
| 14 | The first letting tax , as its name implies , was a tax levied on the first letting of shops , offices , or industrial premises . |
| 15 | The announcement came on the first day of a planned four-day general strike called by the Confederation of Trade Unions ( CTU ) to protest at the country 's perilous economic situation [ see p. 38836 ] . |
| 16 | Cypriot Lesbian & Gay group meet on the first Sunday of every month at London Friend , 86 Caledonian Road , London N ! . |
| 17 | In some countries the percentage tax paid on the first slice of taxable income is quite low , say 15 per cent , and rises steadily as income rises . |
| 18 | And with feelings too complex to itemise , he watched the curtain rise on the first official London performance of The Hooded Owl . |
| 19 | When is primary stress placed on the first word of the compound and when on the second ? |
| 20 | 13.1.1 " the Landlord 's Address " means the address of the Landlord shown on the first page of this agreement or such other address as the Landlord may from time to time notify to the Tenant as being [ its ] address for the purpose of this agreement |
| 21 | In normal speech , English has a rhythm because particular syllables are emphasised , making a pattern of stress : Normally , the stress falls on the first syllable of a word , but not always , as the examples above show . |
| 22 | Table 18–2 shows the price at which some of the early privatizations were offered for sale and compares this with the free market price established on the first day of trading on the stock market . |
| 23 | He set up the prize to give aspiring writers a chance to step on the first rung of the literary ladder . |
| 24 | As a panicked organiser confided on the first day : ‘ There is complete chaos here , everyone is allowed to speak . ’ |
| 25 | The deluge began on the first day of September 1963 . |
| 26 | The Swindon player-boss rounded on the First Division Londoners . |
| 27 | The interest rate paid on the first tranche of capital direct from the Treasury , at 5¼ per cent , was the highest they had ever paid . |
| 28 | In the upshot , however , the government decided on the first option proposed in its discussion document , namely the establishment of an advisory body dominated by local authority representatives , the Welsh Advisory Body for Local Authority Higher Education ( WAB ) . |
| 29 | If he is anything like I was when I played my first Masters ( of three ) in 1978 , this limited time will not have prevented him from dreaming of all possible scenarios , from an air shot on the first tee to outright victory by some 10 shots . |
| 30 | The defendants were the owners of a public house which was run by a manager and his wife , who had a licence to live on the first floor and to take in paying guests . |