Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And erm there 's a five day tour to Dunoon and the Cars of Bute on the first of March . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In this case a twelve-month sentence for unlawful wounding terminated the contract of employment on the first day of imprisonment . |
| 10 | The 31-year-old paceman produced a show of petulance on the first day of the County Championship match against Lancashire at Old Trafford . |
| 11 | " Then there 's the smear of what looks like vomit on the first basin in the men 's washroom . |
| 12 | The little blue flower , ‘ robin-run-in-the-hedge ’ , which probably looked like violet on the first , distant glance , is ground ivy . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | We 've got a brand new management team coming into place on the first of April . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | All four hit fine drives under pressure on the first play-off hole . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Facilities include a breakfast/dining room and a lounge area with TV on the first floor . |
| 20 | The DJs heard six songs and were asked for advice on the first single . |
| 21 | Paragraph one point four , legislation , figures prominent in here and Mr , legislation of course is currently a changing scheme in our service and perhaps the most important new act for several years is the New Road and Street Works Act , which is scheduled to be in action on the first of January next year and this will have two main effects for us , firstly the Local Highway Authority that is ourselves in Suffolk will be in a far stronger position to manage or influence or control the work of public utilities in public highways . |
| 22 | The point is that Humpage was brought on to bowl before lunch on the first morning of the match , and one wonders whether a selected wicketkeeper has ever been introduced into the attack to early a stage of a first-class match , especially since so far as I am aware Warwickshire suffered no injuries that morning . |
| 23 | Now we 've chosen to spend that amount of money , we did n't have all the staff in place on the first of April , we have recruited them during the year , as demand has risen . |
| 24 | Maintenance arrangements existing prior to the 1988 Budget remain largely unaffected , other than that payments received by divorced or separated spouses are exempt from tax on the first £1,720 . |
| 25 | The ideal inpatient stay was two admissions of three and two days ; no patient achieved this ideal , with the patient nearest spending four days in hospital on the first occasion , the delay in discharge being due to severe pain . |
| 26 | The English Ladies ' Golf Association , with typical attention to detail , arranged for their national coach , John Garner , to be in attendance on the first two practice days . |
| 27 | The highest rate of personal income tax ( if you earn more than $200,000 ) goes up from 31 per cent to 36 per cent — raising maybe $10 billion for the Treasury , a mere down payment on the first Clinton domestic schemes . |
| 28 | The Indian presence in far flung outposts of the Empire , for example , from Malaysia to East Africa , can only be understood in this context , and it is important to note that a tradition of emigration from Jamaica had already developed in the nineteenth century , with 2,000 Jamaicans migrating to build railways in Panama , followed by well over 80,000 who went to work on the first attempt at constructing the Panama Canal in the 1880s . |
| 29 | To record this guide-track , you set the tape to a start-mark and the tape recorder to record-pause ; the video tape is set on play-pause on the first frame of picture . |
| 30 | It 's ten minutes to showtime on the first day of Lollapalooza , and the floorboards in the backstage enclosure vibrate with the approach of the humungous Boo Yaa Tribe . |