Example sentences of "[coord] on [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rules are not always as simple s that , e.g. Classical Arabic has the stress on the first long syllable of the word , or on the first syllable if there are no long syllables in the word . |
| 2 | On the first day of the blizzard 30 of my sheep got buried and on the first night my kennel runs were covered with six feet of snow , making it difficult , if not impossible , to get the dogs out . |
| 3 | For example , suppose the PB was ‘ Is violent towards baby sister ’ and on the first baseline this was measured as number of ‘ hitting ’ incidents . |
| 4 | And on the first day of his eight-day tour of the Greek Islands with wife Lady Mills , it ‘ went ’ again and left him unable to walk . |
| 5 | On the ground floor there is a newly-equipped kitchen/dining room , lounge with comfortable furniture , one single bedroom and bathroom , and on the first floor there is a double and a twin bedroom and a bathroom . |
| 6 | Experiments with captive eels suggest that they can navigate by the stars , just as some migrating birds can , and on the first stages of their journey away from Europe , when they swim near the surface , this may be the way they guide themselves . |
| 7 | The plaintiff objected to paying the tolls , and on the first occasion when he did so the owner seized his goods . |
| 8 | I had never been a member of the Labour Party , and on the first occasion when I could claim a vote I voted for the Liberal candidate in the Hampstead constituency . |
| 9 | It is a small town , with a textile industry , and on the first Sunday of May each year it is the scene of the meeting of the Landsgemeinde — the formal assembly of all vote holding citizens of the canton and its law-giving governing body . |
| 10 | ‘ Then the play opened and on the first Friday it looked set to be the day . |
| 11 | His reputation as an architect was based notably on St George 's church , completed in 1734 on the site of Liverpool 's castle , and on the first architectural stone-fronted dwelling house in Liverpool in Hanover Street , c .1740 . |
| 12 | When I opened the Bible to see if it was damaged , I found that wherever there was an empty page , or half a page , someone had written on it , and on the first page was written ‘ Catherine Earnshaw 's diary , 1776 ’ . |
| 13 | On both his visits to Jerusalem and on the first visit to Amman Baker also met with Palestinian representatives , and he held talks with the main Palestinian pre-conference negotiators , Hanan Ashrawi , Faisal al-Husseini , Zakaria al-Agha and Sari Nusseibah , in Washington on Oct. 10-11 . |
| 14 | Steam sprinklers were introduced and on the first day of their operation , they successfully doused another fire that would have probably removed the remainder of the factory had it taken hold . |
| 15 | And on the first , on the first of October , the tops of the mountains appeared . |
| 16 | Tylers the Company that won the tender when Crawley District Council put it out of a bunch of gangsters and on the first of February Crawley District Council awarded under C C T their refuse contract to Tylers as the cheapest tenderer . |
| 17 | But on the first night at least Richard Hague 's careful Figaro seemed only part way there , tentative and restrained in his guile . |
| 18 | Maybe he was unlucky on the last day , but on the first day he holed-in-one at the 5th and Seve had n't even started . |
| 19 | They are based on the circular setting , but on the first of the four rows ( row two ) the ribber must tuck . |
| 20 | Rosie had to stay in hospital for ten days , but on the first Monday morning after they let her out , she came round to visit the family . |
| 21 | But on the first morning of the second week Iskandara came into the drawing-room , where Alexandra chose to write her letters instead of using the boudoir upstairs as Janet wished her to do , and silently put Aunt Emily 's journal down in front of her daughter . |
| 22 | In the House of Commons the bulk of the Labour opposition ( as well as the Liberal Democrats ) voted with the government , but on the first occasion over 50 and on the second over 30 Labour members critical of the bipartisan approach agreed by their party 's leadership voted against ( resulting in resignations from their posts by three frontbench spokespersons ) . |
| 23 | Four passes were needed over the course , but on the first three attempts engine trouble prevented completion , even though 314 mph was clocked on one pass . |
| 24 | Twice Iorwerth 's warning signal had fetched them hastily to their pre-arranged places ; but on the first occasion Isambard had shunned the dripping copse and ridden away down the softer slopes eastward of Parfois , with his attendants strung out after him like beads on the string of darker green he left in the wet grass ; and on the second it had been a full-scale hunt with a dozen or more guests and very nearly fifty retainers , and Owen had held his hand , unwilling to venture against such odds . |
| 25 | For example , in ‘ Japan ’ the primary stress is on the last syllable , but when we add the stress-carrying suffix ‘ -ese ’ the primary stress is on the suffix and the secondary stress is placed not on the second syllable but on the first : ‘ Japanese ’ . |
| 26 | We shall treat them as a special type of word and give them the following rule : when a pair of prefix-plus-stem words exists , both members of which are spelt identically , one of which is a verb and the other is either a noun or an adjective , the stress will be placed on the second syllable of the verb but on the first syllable of the noun or adjective . |