Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the first day " in BNC.
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| 1 | instead the Church preferred to use the Annunciation for the first day of the year , and this led to the adoption of 25 March , nine months before Christmas , although this choice was by no means universal . |
| 2 | Anyway , nobody would be particularly interested in Connie after the first day . |
| 3 | Reduction of dose is similarly used for so-called sensitive cases who are immediately over stimulated or prove the remedy during the first days , or hours , of treatment . |
| 4 | Witness , for example , the wildly discrepant assessments of the effectiveness of allied air-raids in the first days of the war or the ‘ classification error ’ which led to the deaths of hundreds of civilians in Baghdad . |
| 5 | More than 25000 visitors crammed the 500 plus stands on the first day of the show , in Ghent , to look at new developments in materials science , biotechnology , microelectronics and engineering . |
| 6 | As a final straw , on going to change Perdita discovered she 'd got the curse , which was invariably as bloody as Culloden on the first day . |
| 7 | Fifty mls on the first day and then 40 , 30 , 20 , 10 . |
| 8 | This is likely to be your most fertile day , as it is not unusual to detect your surge on the first day of testing . |
| 9 | There were no significant differences in oestradiol by age from 4 days before menstruation to the first day . |
| 10 | There will be a number of interactive plenary sessions on the first day with discussions on the future requirements of users from a variety of industries , and on how the emerging technology can be related to their needs . |
| 11 | Workers were brought in from all of the Eglinton properties to repair the damage of the first day and to improve the condition of the lists . |
| 12 | Mounds of legal documents were brought to the Court House in Whitminster for the first day of the case between B & Q and Gloucester City Council . |
| 13 | In England , James Robertson ( 1953 , 1958 ) , a colleague of Bowlby 's at the Tavistock Clinic , started a campaign to persuade children 's hospital wards to admit mothers together with their children , or at least not to restrict visiting in any way ; some hospitals welcomed the idea , others resisted it , but meanwhile a Government committee was set up which in 1959 published the ‘ Platt Report ’ on the welfare of children in hospital , recommending ‘ that all hospitals where children are treated will adopt the practice of unrestricted visiting , particularly for children below school age ’ , that ‘ it is particularly valuable for the mother to be able to stay in hospital with her child during the first day or two ’ , and that ‘ children should not be admitted to hospital if it can possibly be avoided ’ . |
| 14 | Even so , some medieval documents treat 1 January as the first day of the year of grace . |
| 15 | Peterle said that he did not view the planned date of Slovenia 's declaration of independence as the first day of full independence , but rather as a step in a gradual process . |
| 16 | The predominant adverse effects after the first days of therapy were fatigue ( 73% ) , myalgia ( 60% ) , anorexia ( 43% ) , irritability ( 30% ) , and hair loss ( 15% ) . |
| 17 | The party as a whole proved the reality of its patriotism from the first days of the war , and the logic of this continuation from peacetime was underlined by the speed with which Ulster Unionists rallied to the flag in 1914 , and the gallantry with which they died on the Somme in 1916 . |
| 18 | At least ninety-three people lost their lives in the first days of fighting . |
| 19 | With fourteen family visitors on the first day , the hospital rebelled . |
| 20 | The story of his own life attracted almost 500 visitors on the first day . |
| 21 | The market value of the new ordinary shares issued under the Enhanced Scrip Dividend Offer was 462.5 pence on the first day of dealings in such shares ( 28th July 1993 ) . |
| 22 | How long do you sit in the sun on the first day of your holiday ? |
| 23 | Swinton left for Chicago , where he held talks with Adolf Berle on the first day of the conference . |
| 24 | If the verderers ( or their heirs , if the verderers had died in the mean time ) failed to present their rolls to the judges on the first day of the Forest Eyre , or if their rolls were deficient in any material particular , they were liable to amercement . |
| 25 | The body of Kevin McEvoy was discovered at 7.15am yesterday by a 14-year-old girl on the first day of her new job as a papergirl . |
| 26 | Dover Castle will be the starting point for the first day 's racing on 6 July over a 125-mile course through Folkestone , Canterbury , Ashford and Tunbridge Wells to Brighton . |
| 27 | There are still some spare places on boats for the first day . |
| 28 | As I walked to the hotel one of the Turkish rafters rushed towards me with a copy of Turkey 's most popular article about the first day of the trip with a picture of my good self and another British journalist , both wrapped in blankets looking forlorn . |
| 29 | She had not exactly been reading Tennyson but had remembered John quoting one of his poems during the first days of their acquaintance . |
| 30 | It 's probably best not to feed your fish for the first day or so as they settle in ( though some fish will feed within a few minutes of being stocked ) . |