Example sentences of "[adj] on the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gloomsters have been proved wrong on the first part of the operation . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , they did not all take their studies very seriously and some of the bruising battle scenes , including a duel that went disastrously wrong on the first night , attracted misplaced laughter . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , a great deal of our flying is done by habit and this can lead to serious problems if anything goes wrong on the first flight in a strange machine . |
| 4 | can be expected for material that requires study , but for reports your aim must be to make the meaning clear on the first reading . |
| 5 | If you 're going to get picked up in bars and hand it out free on the first date , you 'd better check in regular at St Stephen 's . ’ |
| 6 | Once again , Botham won the toss and chose to field as the pitch looked as though it would be most lively on the first morning , and for the second time his decision could not really be criticized . |
| 7 | A refusal by an undertaking in a dominant position to supply another undertaking which may be economically dependent on the first undertaking . |
| 8 | The 68EN360 implements all of the media access control layer of the Ethernet IEEE 802.3 Standard on the first channel , and Motorola is also offering the MC68160 Enhanced Ethernet Serial Transceiver for a two-chip Ethernet implementation ; it supports IEEE 802.3 Access Unit Interface and 10Base-T Twisted Pair Interface media connections . |
| 9 | She had n't even been nervous on the first night , not in the way other people were nervous . |
| 10 | Nigel Robson , tall and pompous , became wonderfully enraged as the Mayor ; while Juliet Booth , ill on the first night at York but now displaying her fine voice and musicianship to the full , mixed honey and gall as the spoiled and fickle Arminda . |
| 11 | Girobank 's post-tax profit — calculated on a basis that does not take inflation into account — was £9million , unchanged on the first half of 1988 . |
| 12 | The machine , thirty feet long on the first floor of the new building had overheated . |
| 13 | This was clearly evident on the first day of the event , sponsored again by ADT Auctions , where Gt Britain won only one set in her opening four matches , this despite having good opportunities in at least four of the eight sets that she eventually lost . |
| 14 | How many brides were left to sleep alone on the first night of their honeymoon ? |
| 15 | Thus , where rent is payable quarterly in advance on the usual quarter days a term of " seven years from 25 March " will be construed as beginning at the first moment of 25 March , so that the first payment of rent will fall due on the first day of the term and the last payment of rent would be made in respect of a complete quarter , which ends at the last moment of the term . |
| 16 | A few minutes before we were all due on the first tee a tall and sturdy figure , crowned with a near-bald , sun-tanned head , appeared through the crowd . |
| 17 | Faecal SCFA concentrations were low on the first day of diarrhoea ( mean ( SEM ) 9.9 ( 5.8 ) mmol/kg ) and increased to 94.8 ( 16.4 ) mmol/kg by the fifth day . |
| 18 | The concentration and output of SCFA in faeces was low on the first day of illness , but returned towards normal by the fifth day ( Table I ) . |
| 19 | The Government came under heavy pressure from the Law Society of Scotland to retain the contributory band to ensure that applicants were not encouraged to waste police and court time by using legal aid procedures to delay an eventual plea of guilty on the first day in court . |
| 20 | all the teachers got drunk on the first night in France . |
| 21 | The Student Discount Card costs =4.00 and is obtainable on the first salon visit — your 20% discount is valid immediately . |
| 22 | This contract is deliverable on the first business day after the third Wednesday in the relevant month ( that is , usually about the 19th ) . |
| 23 | It is very likely that several attempts will be necessary on the first application , during which time continuing control of the original may be vital . |
| 24 | This improvement was substantial : from slightly worse than myopic on the first attempt , the average improved to getting on for 40% of the difference between the optimal and the myopic on the second . |