Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] on the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only point I felt w you know we mentioned the other day that if , if there 's a rise say on the first of April then you wan na get in a couple of months before then . |
| 2 | An unused kitchen located on the first floor of this block , provided the necessary space for a new Staff Room , Kitchenette and Toilets , with supplementary Staff Toilets , Lockers and Resources Area being located in the link to the three storey block . |
| 3 | Quadraphony had arrived , and Edward Greenfield reported on the first issues . |
| 4 | The monument stands on the first cross-roads in front of the Carmel Road entrance to West Cemetery . |
| 5 | The allegations of drug-taking sessions came on the first day of Murray 's trial before Lord Kirkwood . |
| 6 | The club meets on the first Wednesday of the month at . |
| 7 | When something in that costly box of tricks above the pool side malfunctioned on the first night at the Grove , they had no option but to call on a back-up team of stopwatch timekeepers . |
| 8 | Coopers & Lybrand worked on the first study in conjunction with Samuel Montagu , the merchant bank which is handling the sale on behalf of the Government . |
| 9 | a letter or figure printed on the first page of each section of a book and used as a guide when collating and binding . |
| 10 | We had spent nine months working on the first one ! |
| 11 | The Cordillera Real Mineral Programme is an in-depth metallogenic study following on the first four years ' reconnaissance . |
| 12 | The theatre 's fully licensed lounge bar situated on the first floor . |
| 13 | ‘ One grain of corn placed on the first square on the board . |
| 14 | With a piercing whine and a cough , the engine caught on the first ignition . |
| 15 | When the US Marine Corps ' 2 Division stormed ashore at Tarawa in November 1943 , a third of the 5,000 marines landing on the first day were casualties because the Japanese were well prepared and the tide played fateful tricks over the reefs . |
| 16 | Walking into the ISDN User Show at Wembley , North London the other day , the first four stands belonged to communications magazines : cynics might see this as evidence that the technology is still at the hype and talk stage , but most exhibitors seemed pleased by the degree to which visitors ' questions had progressed past the ‘ what is ISDN anyway ’ stage to the ‘ how much does this box cost ’ phase ; some 900 visitors attended on the first day , the second seemed rather busier and at some of the conference sessions , notably British Telecommunications Plc 's ‘ where are we now ’ presentation , it was standing room only … |
| 17 | Figure 5 a compares the two independent examples of this contact by a superposition based on the first domains of molecule 1 from each pair . |
| 18 | There was some close racing in the Mirror fleet until Tom Alexander capsized on the first spinnaker reach losing his second place leaving Chris Morgan to win convincingly over Chris Knights . |
| 19 | Check whether any of the reasons for not paying SSP apply on the first day of the PIW . |
| 20 | ALL seems right with the world and you are sure God is in His Heaven when the sun shines on the first morning of a major sporting event . |
| 21 | Full-time university preparatory programmes begin on the first Monday of January , April , July and October . |
| 22 | When the delegates from Western literature meet on the first day to pray for their existence , there is an attempted disruption of the ceremony by Muslim fundamentalists who claim to object to the Christian format of the proceedings , but , as we later discover , their real target is the elusive Gibreel Farishta whom they are trying to punish for his heretical views . |
| 23 | The funeral liturgy included a mass for the dead , but to take full advantage of the memorial rite , masses had also to be sung on the third , seventh and thirtieth days following burial and , to complete the calendar of commemoration , the ‘ obit ’ : a mass sung on the first anniversary of the death . |
| 24 | Rich raw smells of tar , rotting excrement , spices and brine rose up along with the sight of ship masts , looped sails , small boats beached on the first mud of the receding tide , sailors in striped breeches and greasy caps leaning on the wooden railings , others arm in arm on their way to the taverns , piled kegs and crates , winches , the last of the horsedrawn sleds and — a gathering knot of people beyond a bonded warehouse . |
| 25 | It is likely that there were windows of appearance located on the first floors of the Minoan temples , overlooking both West and Central Courts . |
| 26 | The first letting tax , as its name implies , was a tax levied on the first letting of shops , offices , or industrial premises . |
| 27 | Stock boats came on the first day , they start coming away in May . |
| 28 | The announcement came on the first day of a planned four-day general strike called by the Confederation of Trade Unions ( CTU ) to protest at the country 's perilous economic situation [ see p. 38836 ] . |
| 29 | I would also like to know how to get the Van Halen and Brian May sounds , and also the type of sound used on the first Extreme album , during the songs Watching , Waiting and Mutha as the distortion on both sounds smoother and less buzzy . |
| 30 | Cypriot Lesbian & Gay group meet on the first Sunday of every month at London Friend , 86 Caledonian Road , London N ! . |