Example sentences of "a [noun sg] on the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firemen were called to an unoccupied house in Patterson Avenue , Middlesbrough , yesterday when a mattress on the first floor caught fire . |
| 2 | Apparently Lothar received a majority on the first ballot , but not the two-thirds majority made necessary by the constitution " Licet de vitanda " of the Third Lateran Council of 1179 . |
| 3 | Lowering her gaze from the intense sunlight reflected on the upper walls to the leaded doors , she placed a foot on the first stone step . |
| 4 | The hire desk made a phonecall on the first credit card that he offered , and then told him that he 'd exceeded his limit and they could n't take the charge . |
| 5 | For some reason , Noreen had a suite on the first floor . |
| 6 | Security and my creature comforts were cared for by a dry-cleaners on the street level ; a cafe on the first floor that would send me up something on a tray when I came home late and tired ; a retired beautician on the second floor who would revive me with an evening ‘ facial ’ ; while the grocer round the corner saw to it that my larder was replenished for my homecomings . |
| 7 | To win a seat on the first round in the constituency elections , a candidate would need an overall majority in a turnout of at least 50 pere cent ; if this was not achieved , a run-off vote would be held one week later . |
| 8 | They have a department on the first floor ( best reached by door ten ) housing what they call the Plus Collection . |
| 9 | Well le , shall we take a vote on the first word and then decide whether it 's a park , a sports field or a a sports park or whatever ? |
| 10 | In the end the government was forced to make a minor concession , and the present position is that a second ballot will be held if fewer than 50 per cent of those eligible record a vote on the first occasion . |
| 11 | He had not got a result on the first case because he had not been sharp enough . |
| 12 | Tomba had led by almost a second on the first run . |
| 13 | Generally speaking , re-sit paper erm will contain at least one question very similar to a question on the first paper . |
| 14 | Looking around , Ashenden noted yet again the readily observable fact that ( doubtless like animals ) tourists from very early on staked out their territories : find them sitting at one particular table for dinner and almost invariably , for breakfast next morning , you would find them sitting at the very same table ; allocate them to particular seats in a coach on the first part of a journey , and as if by some proprietorial right the passengers would thereafter usually veer towards those selfsame seats . |
| 15 | The rats , in a panic on the first night , hit the barricade and swarmed everywhere , including some spots where they were definitely not welcome . |
| 16 | It 's like if you fall out with a teacher on the first day of term , if that teacher |
| 17 | Note that as far as triad chords are concerned , a whole-tone scale comprises only two different chords , as the notes of a chord on the first degree are repeated in chords on the third and fifth degrees , while those of a chord on the second degree are repeated on the fourth and sixth . |
| 18 | There is no escape from it — that Damocles sword of a war on the first day of which all the chartered covenants of princes will be scattered like chaff : a race war which will subject the whole of Europe to devastation by fifteen or twenty million , and which is not raging already because even the strongest of the great military states shrinks before the absolute incalculability of its final result . |
| 19 | There was no sign of activity except the slight movement of a curtain on the first floor . |
| 20 | South Gully looks good so I excuse myself past a team on the first pitch who are finding the thin , bubbled ice formation awkward . |
| 21 | A few minutes later he went to a room on the first floor to take a blood test . |
| 22 | A bandage round his head , a cup of tea in his blunt hands , he looked like the only survivor of some great catastrophe , and Nathan could understand exactly why he 'd been able to move India-May to tears and why he 'd been given a room on the first floor , one of the large ones , for nothing . |
| 23 | Wayne showed him to a room on the first floor , at the front of the building . |
| 24 | The preparations for The Human Angle , Dyson discovered , were going forward in a room on the first floor furnished with a sea-blue fitted carpet , a number of discreetly abstract paintings , and a walnut sideboard . |
| 25 | It belonged to a room on the first floor , where possibly Elizabeth had her own sitting-room . |
| 26 | Ten Scottish National Party members invaded a room on the first floor of the building which they occupied for three hours before being evicted by security guards . |
| 27 | They occupied a room on the first floor for three hours before being evicted . |
| 28 | Inside , a beam on the first floor is marked with the name ‘ Hayward ’ , a family that also ran the now-demolished mill at nearby Baunton . |
| 29 | He bent forward and gently brushed the cold lips with his own , then sat back on his heels , shivering , toying with the ring that rested , heavy and unfamiliar , like a saddle on the first finger of his right hand . |
| 30 | I found a pensione on the first floor of a small square , run by a woman so enormous that she could hardly move . |