Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | This is likely to be your most fertile day , as it is not unusual to detect your surge on the first day of testing . |
| 3 | There were no significant differences in oestradiol by age from 4 days before menstruation to the first day . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | How long do you sit in the sun on the first day of your holiday ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | These elections concluded the business of the first day of the Leeds Congress , on which , in the words of the preamble to the constitution of the BDDA : The Deaf and Dumb of Great Britain and Ireland agree[d] to form themselves into an Association for the advancement and protection of their interests in every possible way ( in such a manner as will not interfere with the work of the existing societies ) . |
| 13 | That was the evening of the first day . |
| 14 | There is no escape from it — that Damocles sword of a war on the first day of which all the chartered covenants of princes will be scattered like chaff : a race war which will subject the whole of Europe to devastation by fifteen or twenty million , and which is not raging already because even the strongest of the great military states shrinks before the absolute incalculability of its final result . |
| 15 | To mark the occasion , a commemorative tree-planting ceremony will take place on the first day of the championships . |
| 16 | It 's like if you fall out with a teacher on the first day of term , if that teacher |
| 17 | Brussels : Renewed confidence on the first day of the new forward account enabled shares to close firmer in heavy trading . |
| 18 | I only discovered the truth on the first day I was able to get up . |
| 19 | Dickson duly complied with their wishes with an appalling 1–4 record on the first day . |
| 20 | Bob cried as he wandered into the make up room on the first day . |
| 21 | Robert Mantack from Swindon arrived at Bristol Crown Court for the first day of his trial . |
| 22 | He managed only 1.91 metres ( his best is 2.14 ) , went through the motions in the final event of the first day , and quit . |
| 23 | The whole of the first day 's proceedings was taken up with debate on the new presidency , again featuring accusations principally by radical deputies of the potential for authoritarianism and dictatorship . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't want to see him , ’ Anna said , remembering her inoculation on the first day back , and how it had hurt . |
| 25 | 13 infants from each group underwent mechanical ventilation and showed significant differences in mean minimum arterial-alveolar oxygen tension ratio on the first day ( regulated group 0.42 , random group 0.22 ) and in median duration of dependence on supplemental oxygen ( regulated group three days , random group 10 days ) . |
| 26 | Initial packed cell volume , peak serum bilirubin concentrations , red cell transfusion requirements , and respiratory impairment ( assessed by ventilatory requirements , arterial-alveolar oxygen tension ratio over the first day in ventilated infants , and duration of dependence on supplemental oxygen ) . |
| 27 | Outcome measures recorded included Apgar scores , initial packed cell volume , peak serum bilirubin concentrations recorded , red cell transfusions required and respiratory impairment assessed by ventilatory requirements , arterial-alveolar oxygen tension ratio over the first day in ventilated infants , and duration of dependence on supplemental oxygen . |
| 28 | Margaret Elder was giving evidence on the first day of the fatal accident inquiry into drugs deaths in Glasgow . |
| 29 | Mr McTear , 48 , gave evidence on the first day but proceedings were stopped short on Wednesday , second day of the hearing . |
| 30 | Its stairs and passages are crowded with students ; the air is loud with their shouts and laughter as they greet each other on the first day of the new term . |