Example sentences of "[adv] on the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently on the first night of the opera , contrary to the usual customs , the audience insisted on hearing one of Bernasconi 's arias repeated , and many arias were applauded . |
| 2 | The working leg is thrust outwards on the first beat of a bar , heels click and stamp to accent the appropriate beats . |
| 3 | Speaking from his holiday home in Kennebunkport , President George Bush sought to distance himself from the controversy , stating that it was not " a matter for the president to be concerned about , especially on the first day of his vacation " . |
| 4 | Very often there were problems getting everything done to time , and especially on the first season , availability of scripts for Monday morning was the cause of many a delay . |
| 5 | Only on the first day could an extra half-hour be utilised if a result was imminent . |
| 6 | The agreement was a verbal agreement only on the first day of the new year and the two of them agreed to share profits equally . |
| 7 | But you can see , you can see already that the production rate is no where near good enough to meet the programme and if it 's only on the first part of the seventh floor , bearing in mind we 've got to be working on three floors at the same time , we 're only on the first part of the seventh floor and already we 've got overlaps on day Granted , it 's a major problem . |
| 8 | But you can see , you can see already that the production rate is no where near good enough to meet the programme and if it 's only on the first part of the seventh floor , bearing in mind we 've got to be working on three floors at the same time , we 're only on the first part of the seventh floor and already we 've got overlaps on day Granted , it 's a major problem . |
| 9 | It 's now available for only seven shows out of twenty seven in the next programme and only on the first night of each show and only at a cost of two pounds and these are the audience of tomorrow as I wrote to you Mr you neglect these people at your peril why 've you changed the scheme ? |
| 10 | The associative theory , on the other hand , predicts an advantage only on the first task , the associations being of no help , or perhaps even hindering , when symbols having a common associate require different responses . |
| 11 | But all the first-year students had arrived together on the first day of term and sought out the one fixed event in the university calendar , the Freshmen 's Fayre . |
| 12 | There is a fine hall inside on the first floor which has a pendant timber roof and modern frescoes round the walls . |
| 13 | These can be thought of as two separate systems with the non-metropolitan counties and metropolitan districts forming the core authorities ( see fig. 3.1 ) The first local councils under the 1972 Act were elected in 1973 and after a year of preparation , took office formally on the first day of April 1974 . |
| 14 | Price powered home on the first count with 465 first preference votes , but Beth mustered only 11 . |
| 15 | ‘ Go home on the first flight out of here . |
| 16 | It was Dad ( as I now knew Malc 's father ) who opened the door at 6.45 p.m. on the first day of 1967 . |
| 17 | As in previous years , the resolutions not to discuss business ( it carried the threat of a fine ) gave way early on the first evening . |
| 18 | Once on the first aerodrome , Brueckner stopped and made some excuse about engine problems , saying that he had to try to get a key for the toolbox . |
| 19 | He 'd spoken to Pete twice , once on the first evening and again at breakfast . |
| 20 | probably on the first level in n it , or when it 's starting up . |
| 21 | Sir Percival Sharp fought for the AEC mainly on the first issue — but could find no support — so that the second , the potential extension of the power of central government , went largely unchallenged . |
| 22 | Pre-construction work is already underway on the first phase , a 328,000 sq ft building set on a 20 acre green field site within Edinburgh Park , due for completion in Autumn 1995 . |
| 23 | Its restaurant and coffee bar are now on the first floor but once were on the ground floor where the bank is now . |
| 24 | He achieved little on the first day that he spent ‘ in the field ’ but on the second day he got into conversation with a group of men about a puppy that one was carrying . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , the yacht did well on the first leg , finishing sixth . |
| 26 | A mistake , here on the first page . ’ |
| 27 | no it 's not page fifty six in here on the first page where it says bargain cars |
| 28 | It coped with very long grass from an overgrown lawn which had n't been cut since last year , and produced a satisfactory cut even on the first mowing . |
| 29 | Sadly , they can very easily be used in fatal proportions , even on the first use . |
| 30 | For example , with music of the Mozart period we often know what is coming next , even on the first hearing of a work . |