Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] on the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are remains of the medieval building on the first floor , but its present appearance as a Renaissance house is due to late 16C work , probably by Campion de Bossi . |
| 2 | So if you play small smoothly declarer , ( who is only missing queen , ten , five in the suit ) is almost certain to play a top honour on the first round , after which the contract will be doomed to failure as you will make a trump trick by force . |
| 3 | Raskolnikov has admitted to visiting the old woman on the first occasion but of course not on the second . |
| 4 | It is therefore very difficult for a Swedish speaker to remember to put the stress on the English word on the first syllable ( by the time you remember it is too late ! ) |
| 5 | The detailed report on the first experiment is available from SCPR . |
| 6 | This very awkward junction was signalled with three lamps in a small wooden box on the first traction post in Tamworth Road and another in Lower Church Street . |
| 7 | Mugger murders British holidaymaker on the first day of jazz trip to New Orleans |
| 8 | This room is off a narrow corridor on the first floor . |
| 9 | There would be 100 single-member constituencies of approximately equal population , with candidates requiring an absolute majority on the first ballot or a simple majority on the second . |
| 10 | Voters went to the polls on Jan. 20 for run-off elections for those National Assembly seats where no candidate had won an overall majority on the first ballot ( held in conjunction with the presidential elections on Dec. 16 ) . |
| 11 | It will be noticed that these two items have common elements ; their time periods overlap , so that anyone doing a comprehensive study on the first half of the twentieth century would want both items if he was really very thorough , and the interest of Women 's Liberation students would be caught by the first item and by part of the second item . |
| 12 | 6 One movement in a single section but in two different versions ( no. 5 ) has a timing , but it is not clear to which version this timing relates ; however , the composer 's autograph direction , ‘ Point viste , mais marque ’ and those given in the Cauvin MS ( Versailles , Bibl. mun. , Ms mus 226 ) and the 1729 edition ( ‘ Rondement et marque ’ ) , together with the stated desire on the first folio to shorten the work , strongly suggest that it is the shorter version of 60 bars to which this timing applies . |
| 13 | The house had become far too large and expensive to maintain for Aunt Lou and so it had been altered , the top half being made into a separate flat on the first floor and a studio apartment created in the former attics . |
| 14 | The Foreign Secretary 's residence was entered from the park front , which had the reception rooms along its entire length on the first floor . |
| 15 | It 's surprising how much moss and dead growth it clears from an area of established turf on the first use ; just the type of debris that tends to suffocate fine grasses . |
| 16 | And I firmly believe in giving notes to others to ensure that the standard set on the first night is maintained . ’ |
| 17 | The CID team will have a large open-plan office on the first floor and another room on the first floor can be used for major incidents . |
| 18 | So he started work in the office and showroom , a long narrow room on the first floor with windows that looked out onto the street , with shelves filled with lines of business machines , computers , word processors , the screens flickering as Lewis , Barnett 's other assistant , experimented with them . |
| 19 | There was a definite query on the first word , and she half smiled in return . |
| 20 | tends to be a little bit on the first page then it goes onto pages like two , three , all different pages with small sections |
| 21 | Theda was more amused than offended , and when the assistants began scurrying about the little salon on the first floor , bringing samples for her to try , she very quickly fell into a mood of unqualified enjoyment . |
| 22 | The office was a large room on the first floor equipped with a desk on which perched three phones in different colours . |
| 23 | Boris Yeltsin was elected President of Russia ( RFSFR ) on June 12 , defeating five other candidates , including the former Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov , to win a comfortable victory on the first ballot . |
| 24 | He kept leaping into the darkroom , created for the Photographic Society on the first floor , and claiming that he had heard the sound of munching . |
| 25 | In addition to an absorbing interpretation of Winterreise , which comprises the second CD , we have a strange mélange on the first disc that consists of some of the songs arranged for viola and piano , some for piano alone , and some of the poems merely being read by Peter Härtling , who ends the disc with a 12-minute Epilogue , discoursing on Müller 's life . |
| 26 | The first morning we met you asked me to show you the way to the matriculation class , putting a very strong stress on the first syllable . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Thomas Stocking produced the rococo plasterwork in all the main rooms , and in the eastern bedroom on the first floor there are plaster birds flying overhead . |
| 29 | By far the most interesting room in the complex is the Great Hall on the first floor , where degrees are conferred . |
| 30 | Brussels : Renewed confidence on the first day of the new forward account enabled shares to close firmer in heavy trading . |