Example sentences of "[adv] on the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently on the first night of the opera , contrary to the usual customs , the audience insisted on hearing one of Bernasconi 's arias repeated , and many arias were applauded . |
| 2 | The working leg is thrust outwards on the first beat of a bar , heels click and stamp to accent the appropriate beats . |
| 3 | Very often there were problems getting everything done to time , and especially on the first season , availability of scripts for Monday morning was the cause of many a delay . |
| 4 | Speaking from his holiday home in Kennebunkport , President George Bush sought to distance himself from the controversy , stating that it was not " a matter for the president to be concerned about , especially on the first day of his vacation " . |
| 5 | The first ‘ official ’ race was held in 1972 and it has been held annually on the first or second Wednesday in May ever since . |
| 6 | The balance in Japan is also healthily positive , at 54% , only slightly down on the first quarter of the year . |
| 7 | But it 's basically down on the down on the first floor , we 've set aside a a room which erm the people from the Occupational Health Centre here in Harlow , come up and do vision screening for us on a regular basis they come when do they come ? |
| 8 | There was a lot of noise ; people were getting bets down on the first pair . |
| 9 | This was obviously the pigeons ' favourite delicacy : at the sight of the tin can , the pigeons leapt in the air and fluttered above us waiting to dive down on the first grains ; others landed flirtatiously on Fardine 's arms and shoulders . |
| 10 | Lambert nursed his coughing , shaking aircraft back to the field and thankfully touched down on the first available yard of turf . |
| 11 | Way back in 1957 I had talked my boss into allowing me to learn to fly helicopters with the British European Airways Helicopter Unit at Gatwick and in 1960 I sat in on the first ground school course BOAC conducted for their senior captains converting to the first Boeing 707s . |
| 12 | At four he lost only on the first and last outings ( beaten narrowly on both occasions ) of a sixteen-race campaign . |
| 13 | The associative theory , on the other hand , predicts an advantage only on the first task , the associations being of no help , or perhaps even hindering , when symbols having a common associate require different responses . |
| 14 | Only on the first day could an extra half-hour be utilised if a result was imminent . |
| 15 | It 's now available for only seven shows out of twenty seven in the next programme and only on the first night of each show and only at a cost of two pounds and these are the audience of tomorrow as I wrote to you Mr you neglect these people at your peril why 've you changed the scheme ? |
| 16 | This evidence sheds valuable light , therefore , not only on the first recorded Northumbrian royal overtures to the Frankish court but also on the disturbed state of the kingdom on the eve of Alhred 's expulsion in 774 when he was driven from York at Easter ( ASC D , s.a. 774 ) into exile among the Picts . |
| 17 | The dorsal arm plates are fan shaped and contiguous only on the first 2–3 arm segments , the plates in profile appear to be slightly swollen . |
| 18 | Now the white painted bookcases which reached to the ceiling were filled only on the first two shelves with incongruous modern volumes with used-looking dust-covers . |
| 19 | The agreement was a verbal agreement only on the first day of the new year and the two of them agreed to share profits equally . |
| 20 | But you can see , you can see already that the production rate is no where near good enough to meet the programme and if it 's only on the first part of the seventh floor , bearing in mind we 've got to be working on three floors at the same time , we 're only on the first part of the seventh floor and already we 've got overlaps on day Granted , it 's a major problem . |
| 21 | But you can see , you can see already that the production rate is no where near good enough to meet the programme and if it 's only on the first part of the seventh floor , bearing in mind we 've got to be working on three floors at the same time , we 're only on the first part of the seventh floor and already we 've got overlaps on day Granted , it 's a major problem . |
| 22 | But all the first-year students had arrived together on the first day of term and sought out the one fixed event in the university calendar , the Freshmen 's Fayre . |
| 23 | There is a fine hall inside on the first floor which has a pendant timber roof and modern frescoes round the walls . |
| 24 | This year , by some freak of fate , the Mendozas had drawn the O'Briens in the first round , and were due to play them at the latter 's new polo club forty miles away on the first Saturday in December . |
| 25 | You want to throw it away on the first blonde blue-eyed gold-digger to throw herself across your path . ’ |
| 26 | It was of the gate to Marie Claire 's villa : a clear bold drawing of the tall wrought-iron gate I had watched the girl go through on the first night I saw her . |
| 27 | He was unseated by a young health promotions officer , Des Lowry , for the SDLP who gained first preference votes of 753 , just seven short of the quota , with sitting SDLP councillor Barry Doherty going through on the first count . |
| 28 | Andy Payton was denied with a good Bobby Mimms save as he burst through on the first occasion . |
| 29 | And this is a ph , like a photocopy , so what you 'll have is a nice printed version with Abbey Life blue , purely for you to get a feel of if you like , , and in this , we 're very quickly going to go through on the first sheet it will have activity and production and it will have your data there . |
| 30 | We normally on the first three months do it on a group basis |