Example sentences of "[vb pp] on the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The image of hope which had thus arisen in Williamson 's mind was soured by the reality of his second obsession : the sheer horror of his experience on 1 July 1916 , when 60,000 British soldiers were killed or wounded on the first day of the Battle of the Somme . |
| 2 | As with most stress rules , there are exceptions , for example ‘ honest ’ , ‘ perfect ’ or , both of which end with two consonants but are stressed on the first syllable . |
| 3 | The admission by Hammersmith and Fulham was disclosed on the first day of a case brought by Anthony Hazell , the local district auditor . |
| 4 | The Accommodation Service is located on the first floor of the Tower Building . |
| 5 | An unused kitchen located on the first floor of this block , provided the necessary space for a new Staff Room , Kitchenette and Toilets , with supplementary Staff Toilets , Lockers and Resources Area being located in the link to the three storey block . |
| 6 | Christina went to her own office , which was located on the first floor of the reception building . |
| 7 | Force a page break with the cursor located on the first letter of the first paragraph |
| 8 | Police urged racegoers to be on their guard after six separate incidents of forged £20 notes were reported on the first day . |
| 9 | ‘ Once she was a hit , we could have sat on the first contract and made more money from her . |
| 10 | With a piercing whine and a cough , the engine caught on the first ignition . |
| 11 | Walking into the ISDN User Show at Wembley , North London the other day , the first four stands belonged to communications magazines : cynics might see this as evidence that the technology is still at the hype and talk stage , but most exhibitors seemed pleased by the degree to which visitors ' questions had progressed past the ‘ what is ISDN anyway ’ stage to the ‘ how much does this box cost ’ phase ; some 900 visitors attended on the first day , the second seemed rather busier and at some of the conference sessions , notably British Telecommunications Plc 's ‘ where are we now ’ presentation , it was standing room only … |
| 12 | And the two things that I had noticed on the first day were still left hanging there … |
| 13 | Rome , for instance , was sited on the first crossing of the River Tiber , controlling the route from Latium to Etruria ; Corinth was a colonial power in the archaic period thanks largely to her position on the Isthmus ( p. 95 ) ; and explanations of the greatness of Byzantium , from Polybius book iv to Gibbon , have begun with geography . |
| 14 | In the upshot , however , the government decided on the first option proposed in its discussion document , namely the establishment of an advisory body dominated by local authority representatives , the Welsh Advisory Body for Local Authority Higher Education ( WAB ) . |
| 15 | I have , in any case , written on the first part elsewhere . |
| 16 | She thought with a rush of gratitude of the letter she had had from Gay , in answer to the one she had written on the first night of the holidays . |
| 17 | A short history of the company is also written on the first page . |
| 18 | If he is anything like I was when I played my first Masters ( of three ) in 1978 , this limited time will not have prevented him from dreaming of all possible scenarios , from an air shot on the first tee to outright victory by some 10 shots . |
| 19 | BACKSPACE is pressed when the cursor is positioned on the first input field of the page . |
| 20 | BACKSPACE is pressed when the cursor is positioned on the first input field of the page ; |
| 21 | To get accepted on the first training course is difficult enough . |
| 22 | Founded by Muz Murray , who was featured on the first issue 's cover breaking out of an egg , Gandalf 's Garden distilled the essence of the time 's peace , love , mysticism , and delusion . |
| 23 | Thus , where all taxes are levied on the first generation ( ) , as assumed by Diamond 11965 ) . |
| 24 | The first letting tax , as its name implies , was a tax levied on the first letting of shops , offices , or industrial premises . |
| 25 | ‘ Your employer ? ’ he said gently , not probing , remembering what she had said on the first day . |
| 26 | It was a most impressive performance by the 25-year-old Lahore left-hander in only his third Test appearance , all his 205 runs made on the first day before an understandable concentration lapse . |
| 27 | On 26 April 1991 the Bank of England , who have entered the action as interveners pursuant to my order made on the first day of the hearing last Tuesday , served on the defendants a notice pursuant to section 39(3) ( a ) of the Banking Act 1987 , requiring them to produce at Threadneedle Street at noon on 9 May 1991 a number of specified documents ( comprising all or some of the documents covered by the injunction ) and stated to concern or relate to the accounts or related business of seven of the plaintiffs including A , on the ground that they were reasonably required by the Bank of England for the performance of its functions under the Act . |
| 28 | That 's why they 're shown there , they 're different to the figures shown on the first page of the report , but because they 're calculated on the same base , er , one can compare at each other , one can compare the different towns . |
| 29 | 13.1.1 " the Landlord 's Address " means the address of the Landlord shown on the first page of this agreement or such other address as the Landlord may from time to time notify to the Tenant as being [ its ] address for the purpose of this agreement |
| 30 | 13.1.2 " the Tenant 's Address " means the address of the Tenant shown on the first page of this agreement or such other address as the Tenant may from time to time notify to the Landlord as being [ its ] address for service for the purposes of this agreement |