Example sentences of "be first [verb] on [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the minutes of 1847 , Mr Alfred D. Blott is described as the senior of the two ‘ Station Clerks ’ , he had been first appointed on 18 September 1838 , the day after the final section of the L & B Railway was opened . |
| 2 | , William ( c. 1580–1619 ) , portrait painter , is first recorded on 17 July 1606 when he was awarded the freedom of the City of London by redemption in the Company of Painter-Stainers . |
| 3 | The opera , for which Mozart received a fee of 200 ducats , was first performed on 26 January 1790 at the Burgtheater , and had four more performances before the death of Joseph II put a temporary end to all theatrical events in Vienna . |
| 4 | It was first performed on 6 September . |
| 5 | A political truce was called within a few days of the outbreak of war ; a pact to end contested by-elections was first signed on 6 August , and a joint recruiting drive began before the end of the month . |
| 6 | The light , which had twenty-four candles , was first shown on 28 July 1708 , and the lighthouse was completed in 1709 . |