Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] on the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | After supper on the first night we sat round the table in anticipation of the promised induction talk . |
| 2 | He gambolled over the four fences on the run towards the turn for home on the first circuit , and made towards the stands with a commanding lead . |
| 3 | Seve , Nick , Jose-Maria and Woosie are all superstars although Josie-Maria and Ian have n't proved it yet it terms of Majors and I looked upon them as bankers on the first two days . |
| 4 | THE regeneration of Drumchapel , one of Glasgow 's notorious peripheral housing estates , took a big step forward yesterday with the start of building on the first rented homes to be erected in the area for 35 years . |
| 5 | really answer the first part of the Noble Lord 's question by saying that er er it is a question of future cost , er we are er we are already spending a great deal of money on the first part er of this er library and er we will have to examine the future cost very carefully and I put it to you to the Noble Lord that it would be a really sad reflection where the field of creative endeavour in which this country is m has most excelled over the centuries , in other words literature to have no single focus for celebration , preservation and active use , it really is er very important that this library continues , but may I remind Your Lordships also that we 're not talking about the s the library in this question , we 're talking about the u the site at present used by the builders . |
| 6 | Sinatra stormed off of the set of Carousel on the first day of shooting because it was to be shot in both the new CinemaScope 55 format and the standard ‘ flat ’ ratio , meaning everything had to be shot twice . |
| 7 | And erm there 's a five day tour to Dunoon and the Cars of Bute on the first of March . |
| 8 | Besides Andy Adams , robbed by a broken leg of the winning ride on Party Politics , three other jockeys Anthony Tory ( Docklands Express ) , Adrian Maguire ( Cool Ground ) and Mark Perrett ( Rubika ) were painfully put out of action on the first two days . |
| 9 | Oh well just south of Caernarvon on the first section erm between Caernarvon and ? |
| 10 | City book stores had queues of buyers on the first day eager to find out what had so upset stockbrokers UBS Phillips & Drew . |
| 11 | The only change to the personal taxation system was the reduction of the basic rate of tax on the first £2,000 of taxable income to 20 per cent from 25 per cent at a cost of £1,770 million . |
| 12 | His re-creation — like the creating of Adam on the first day — had taken a little time . |
| 13 | In other words , chords on the third to sixth degrees of the scale are only inversions of chords on the first and second degrees : Clearly this makes for rather meagre harmonic material if we limit ourselves only to triadic usage , so it is better to exploit other kinds of chord shapes which will serve to produce impressions of greater harmonic variety . |
| 14 | Erm , the conditions were erm slightly different on the second floor , in the sense that there were a few , few people and a few items of equipment erm , and there is a relatively great density of staff on the first floor than I would have found . |
| 15 | If those on the Opposition Front Bench are right and there is an election on a certain day in April , the Government are right not to allow many hours of debate on the first few clauses so that subsequent clauses are rushed through without sufficient consideration . |
| 16 | The combined effect is to benefit the smaller and the more handicapped farms and MacEwen and Sinclair predict an overall HLCA saving of£3.2 million which could go to upland farms in a range of measures , including the payment of HLCAs on the first 10 dairy cows per farm . |
| 17 | In this case a twelve-month sentence for unlawful wounding terminated the contract of employment on the first day of imprisonment . |
| 18 | This fund manager has an annual charge of 1% on the first £150,000 invested , 0.75% on the next £850,000 and additional charges for transactions of between 0.1% and 1.25% . |
| 19 | The 31-year-old paceman produced a show of petulance on the first day of the County Championship match against Lancashire at Old Trafford . |
| 20 | A garlanded Princess of Wales on the first full day of her visit to Nepal |
| 21 | " Then there 's the smear of what looks like vomit on the first basin in the men 's washroom . |
| 22 | The little blue flower , ‘ robin-run-in-the-hedge ’ , which probably looked like violet on the first , distant glance , is ground ivy . |
| 23 | Sailing to form , at last , was Gyngell who held onto 3rd place despite a challenge from Fenwick who came up from right behind Goodchild on the first lap . |
| 24 | Some of the ladies are frankly terrified , even those with bedrooms on the first floor . |
| 25 | Freedom of movement for individuals will be one of the cornerstones of the new Europe , enshrined in the single Europe act , due to come into effect on the first of January 1993 . |
| 26 | Leave the carriage at plain knitting and it will knit in the E position needles with ease on the first of the rows that follow . |
| 27 | We 've got a brand new management team coming into place on the first of April . |
| 28 | Languages in this category include French , with stress on the last syllable of a word ( or phrase ) ; Polish , with stress on the penultimate ( next to the last ) syllable ; and Finnish , with stress on the first syllable . |
| 29 | All four hit fine drives under pressure on the first play-off hole . |
| 30 | So the results for the sales strategy are remarkably similar to the results for the output strategy : the subjects were not taking the time ( the period ) into account on the first repetition — as they should have been — but there were on the second repetition . |