Example sentences of "on first " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you put your tailplane on first , you might say , quite rightly , that this will not happen with your equipment . |
| 2 | It is perhaps worth recording the remark of an eight-year-old boy on first seeing Ashton 's Symphonic Variations ( 1947 ) : ‘ That was lovely , I know all about the music now . |
| 3 | So on first consideration it seems odd that in the early days of planning The Possessed Dostoevsky should write to his friend Maikov and describe his new venture as ‘ like Crime and Punishment but even nearer to reality , even more urgent , and directly concerned with the most important contemporary question ’ . |
| 4 | On first sight it might seem a case of plus ca change , plus c'est la meme chose . |
| 5 | On first viewing , the movement is too enjoyably dense to take in fully — in old Page-style the head , torso and arms work in radical counterpoints to the legs , but their opposition is much less clamorous and wilful than before . |
| 6 | The services on offer from the Community Relations Branch include the ‘ blue lamp disco ’ , a title evocative of George Dixon and consensus policing ; the organization of disco-dancing competitions and football tournaments with children from other police divisions in Belfast ; nature rambles ; access to outward-bound centres , some in Great Britain , the cost of attendance being borne by the RUC ; swimming lessons , including swimming for visually handicapped children ; and the provision in schools of classes on first aid , safety , and law , and of other general campaigns aimed at children , like the ‘ Say No To Strangers ’ campaign . |
| 7 | On first seeing All Quiet on the Western Front it was as if the whole cast had marched through my life on their way to Wallsend station and the battlefields of Europe . |
| 8 | But the charity stresses that infection can occur on first contact with an infected partner or needle . |
| 9 | The institutional shortage will inflate further the expected premium on first day 's trading . |
| 10 | At the end of a quarter of a mile of rough track it seems on first sight to be a typically humble and remote farmhouse , with its low and unobtrusive policies almost growing around it . |
| 11 | ‘ What infinite variety presents itself in this enchanting spot , ’ wrote Abbot in his diary on first seeing it . |
| 12 | On first principles , Adam Smith invariably had much to say . |
| 13 | If a number is not right on first or second playing , it is dropped , and the star moves on to something else . |
| 14 | In his younger , more confident days he could quip that ‘ formalism is the name given to music not understood on first hearing ’ ; but by 1948 he was less resilient , and the situation more threatening . |
| 15 | That makes the investment look like little more than a punt on First Fidelity 's shares — a profitable punt , perhaps , but a punt nonetheless . |
| 16 | Hobbes 's two obsessions , geometry and motion , first came together in the early 1630s in a Short Tract on First Principles . |
| 17 | Out of his advanced lectures emerged a powerful refutation of the entire Gnostic world-view and principles of biblical interpretation , a work entitled On First Principles . |
| 18 | I suppose they felt that the viewing public needed to see a nice little clump of easily identified people , which on first glance they could decide whether they liked or not . |
| 19 | On first hearing , I prematurely thought Vin Garbutt had given abortion a rest . |
| 20 | It would not have been difficult to fill this page with a glowing report based entirely on first impressions . |
| 21 | I am running a four speed Range Rover box which was perfectly good until I changed the oil , Now it baulks on first and second , especially from third to second . |
| 22 | On first sight I thought the building the ugliest in Milan , but my opinion changed a little after seeing the Via San Barnaba façade , which is less sense-slaughtering and even has some redeeming features . |
| 23 | Two stimuli were used , the offset of a light and the presentation of a clicker , both of which tended on first presentation to evoke a suppression of ongoing behaviour . |
| 24 | And when he began to have the confidence to talk to us , he would have long discussions with people about films which he had never actually seen , but which he could pretend to have seen , since he made a point of reading all the reviews of the new films and musicals when he found out that that was what people liked to talk about on first meetings . |
| 25 | ‘ I had a little difficulty on first arriving , but that is surely only normal . ’ |
| 26 | But when on first hearing of this arrangement I tried to inform Miss Kenton of it , she once again refused to converse with me , and in order to accomplish matters as quickly as possible I was actually obliged to write a note and put it under the door of her parlour . |
| 27 | Once you were promoted you had to go to the bar on first entering the mess and drink a pint of whatever drink you designated without taking your lips from the glass . |
| 28 | It does all appear remarkably accessible on first impressions . |
| 29 | Transfer 's fifth show is based on first hand accounts of women working in the health services . |
| 30 | Stability tests on pilot batches and on first production batches should be carried out not only in the case of new products but also where there has been any change in the formulation of the product or in the source of the raw materials used or in the equipment used in manufacture or filling or in the method of manufacture or filing . |