Example sentences of "the [noun pl] on the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 2.7 If at any time any Works are carried out otherwise than in accordance with the Building Documents and this fact might [ reasonably ] have been expected to be apparent on visual inspection to the Surveyors on the first occasion following the carrying out of the relevant Works on which they actually inspected the same pursuant to clause 2.5 ( " Relevant Inspection " ) then unless within [ 5 ] working days after the date of the Relevant Inspection ( time being of the essence ) the Surveyors have served on the Architect a Defects Notice in respect of such non-compliance the relevant Works shall be treated for all purposes of this agreement as having been carried out in accordance with the Building Documents This provision should be deleted . |
| 2 | Alternatively , if you can afford it , you can continue paying the premiums on the first policy as well as taking out your second joint endowment . |
| 3 | ‘ Through the offices on the first floor . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ The songs on the first album stem from a period a year and a half ago that was the emotional and physical hole of my life . |
| 5 | If the verderers ( or their heirs , if the verderers had died in the mean time ) failed to present their rolls to the judges on the first day of the Forest Eyre , or if their rolls were deficient in any material particular , they were liable to amercement . |
| 6 | Crossing the corners on the first pitch of Sirius ( Hard Severe ) , Lizard Point , Cornwall ( photo : Don Sargeant ) . |
| 7 | But it 's your chance to talk about what 's going on ; here we are , day two of the Gulf conflict , and erm all the sounds on the first day were very optimistic from an allied point of view , but are we getting too optimistic ? |
| 8 | Twin Oaks , one of the backmarkers on the first circuit , ran on remarkably well to finish fifth without ever looking likely to take a hand in the finish . |
| 9 | He was used to seeing people with swollen jaws and pale nervous faces walking up these two flights to the rooms on the first floor . |
| 10 | Being invited to commence the proceedings on the first day , an insight into modern journalism , techniques and railway photography in both colour slide form and black and white mediums proved most interesting . |
| 11 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that to sustain a plea of autrefois convict a defendant had to prove not only that he had already been found guilty of the offence charged by a court of competent jurisdiction , either by the decision of the court or verdict of the jury or entry of his own plea of guilty , but also that the court had finally disposed of the case by passing sentence or making some other order ; that since the proceedings on the first indictment had been discontinued before sentence had been passed there had been no final adjudication and the defendant had properly been convicted on the second indictment ; but that , in all the circumstances , particularly having regard to the lapse of time between trial and determination of the appeal to the Judicial Committee , it would be appropriate for the death sentence to be commuted ( post , pp. 931D–E , 935H ) . |
| 12 | The proportions on the first trip across to the island had been strange — almost no cars , few locals and 2,000 passengers in guernseys with kit bags , carrying damp cardboard boxes of food . |
| 13 | In the event , Israel walked out of the talks on the first day in protest at the presence of the head of the Palestinian delegation , Mohammed Hallaj , director of the Washington-based Centre for Policy Analysis on Palestine and a former member of the Palestine National Council ( PNC — the Palestinian " parliament-in-exile " ) . |
| 14 | The nerves on the first night at Taunton had been bad ; so had the understudy nerves of the first night at the Variety ; but they were nothing to the sheer blind terror that attended Charles Paris as he waited to go on stage in the role in which Michael Banks 's career had been so tragically cut short the night before . |