Example sentences of "on the [noun sg] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the alternative , however , they contended that the payments by Woolwich had been made pursuant to an implied agreement between Woolwich and the revenue whereby it was agreed that the revenue would hold the sums pending the outcome of proceedings to determine the validity of the relevant regulations , and that any entitlement of Woolwich to repayment arose on the date of the first judgment of Nolan J. with the effect that interest ran only from that date . |
| 2 | This tension surfaced in particularly acute form on the morrow of the first proletarian revolution as the Bolsheviks attempted to construct a system of coordinated workers ' control over industry in face of the proliferation of relatively independent factory committees . |
| 3 | In 1922 , the blue cars operated regularly on the Promenade for the first time , during the track relaying in Central Drive , and in 1926 were extended to the Gynn . |
| 4 | Angry punters demonstrated on the course after the first race , while negotiations went on between track officials and the Tote workers . |
| 5 | When an Annamese girl gets married , her husband spreads a square of snowy white silk on the bed on the first night of their honeymoon . |
| 6 | One understands why information should be put on the computer in the first place . |
| 7 | In partnership with the Staple Inn Actuarial Society , we look forward to building on the success of the first year 's issues and to the increasing use of the magazine as a means of effective two-way communications . |
| 8 | I want to ensure that we build on the success of the first six months of NHS reforms so that no one will want to go anywhere but to his or her most immediately available hospital to receive NHS treatment . |
| 9 | Plans to carry out similar programmes in other resorts will depend on the success of the first two schemes . |
| 10 | On the day of the first ballot , February 4 , 1 975 , I was on a political tour of the East Midlands . |
| 11 | We already had the French and Germans with us , and we divided the remaining eighty-odd delegates between us so that on the day before the first meeting we could explain our intentions and our reasoning to as many delegates as we could find . |
| 12 | I had been particularly struck by William Rees-Mogg 's column in the Independent on the day after the first leadership ballot . |
| 13 | It caused the Prevention of Terrorism Act , giving extensive new powers to the police to detain terrorist suspects , and making IRA membership illegal on the mainland for the first time , to be put through Parliament in one 17-hour sitting , by the Home Secretary to whom the description liberal' is most attached , whether in praise or blame : Mr Roy Jenkins . |
| 14 | However , despite all the interest at official level and among reformers and commentators , on the eve of the First World War many were pessimistic about the chances of a compulsory system ever reaching the statute book . |
| 15 | By great good fortune we are able to inspect the stage which had been reached on the eve of the First Crusade in the pages of the Song of Roland . |
| 16 | MORE than 1,000 Maxwell pensioners lobbied Parliament yesterday on the eve of the first anniversary of their old boss 's death . |
| 17 | The most dramatic dependence on imports was that of the United Kingdom , which imported four-fifths of her grain on the eve of the first world war . |
| 18 | After a very successful tour of West Indies , he took his second team off to Australia , but on the eve of the first Test he received a cable telling him that his widowed mother had died . |
| 19 | On the eve of the First World War , about three-quarters did , not far from the balance today ( table 2.1 ) . |
| 20 | Middlesbrough steel , for instance , can still be identified in the railway stations of India and Argentina : on the eve of the First World War , those countries alone bought more British iron and steel exports than the whole of Europe . |
| 21 | On the eve of the first anniversary of the Gulf war , will my right hon. Friend join me in expressing our gratitude to our armed forces , our commitment to the independence of Kuwait and our determination to ensure that Saddam Hussein and his generals comply with all international sanctions or suffer the consequences ? |
| 22 | At the 18th plenary session of the sixth KWP central committee , held in May on the eve of the first meeting of the new SPA , Choe Kwang and Han Song Yong ( both of whom were aged and trusted comrades of Kim Il Sung ) were promoted to the politburo [ see p. 37455-56 ] . |
| 23 | Such was the rapid rate of expansion that ensued that the workforce in Britain 's mines rose from a mere 50,000 at the beginning of the nineteenth century to over 1 million on the eve of the First World War . |
| 24 | The pensioners complained on the eve of the first anniversary of the publisher 's death that they still did not know how long their pensions would be paid . |
| 25 | It was a town created on the marshland by the first Bishop of Norwich ( Herbert Losinga , 1091–1119 ) , to whom the site belonged and who saw its wonderful possibilities . |
| 26 | Back on the grid for the first time in three years is derek warwick … he 's racing for the Milton Keynes Footwork team |
| 27 | The House of Commons Social Services Committee has reported on the operation of the first twelve months of the new social security system . |
| 28 | with 60 kids sitting on the floor in the first grade . |
| 29 | Mother would n't have anything to do with it whatsoever , do n't you bring anything , any of that stuff into our house , I mean of course it be this New Zealand lamb had just arrived on the scene before the First Word War , I mean nobody was , anybody dare have it I mean they 'd be standing on the pavement at eleven o'clock at night almost giving it away on Saturday night , but anyway that 's all changed now , we all eat it . |
| 30 | Well , it 's the way he spoke on the phone in the first place ! |