Example sentences of "first [noun sg] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's a warning , ’ said Alexander Alexandrovich Vasily , the youngest of the Politburo members , a writer by profession and the first non-politician on the ruling body . |
| 2 | Just past the Ha'penny Bridge , the driver turned to the left into Lower Fownes 's Street and stopped before the first building on the right hand side . |
| 3 | Past the first cottage on the left there 's a hairpin bend in the track and a stile on the bank on the right . |
| 4 | In April there was the first deficit on the visible trade account for 10 years ; for the first four months of 1991 the deficit was DM12,000 million ( compared with a surplus for 1990 as a whole of DM77,000 million ) . |
| 5 | Within manufacture , the precise form of division depends in the first instance on the historical precursors of the capitalistic form of production in the given branch of industry — whether the ‘ manufacturer ’ ( a ) draws together previously separate trades into one workshop to produce a common product or ( b ) splits up a previously unified craft production process into its component tasks . |
| 6 | This liability would fall in the first instance on the resident owner , then the resident tenant and so on . |
| 7 | He replaces Ian St John as Jimmy Greaves sidekick analysing the region 's best action from the first division on The Central Match LIVE . |
| 8 | Multiplying out , we have The first term on the right-hand side is . |
| 9 | We may write The first term on the right-hand side is symmetric in i and j , the second is anti-symmetric . |
| 10 | Likewise , taking expectations of the first term on the right-hand side of equation ( 3.40 ) gives . |
| 11 | The first term on the right-hand side of ( 8.18 ) is the return on the margin payments . |
| 12 | The first term on the right-hand side is the sum of the dividend income for n periods which has grown at a compound rate of ( ) , the ‘ super-normal ’ growth rate . |
| 13 | It can be shown that and so the first term on the right-hand side of eqn ( 20.7 ) represents the transfer of energy between wavenumbers . |
| 14 | Therefore , as long as for the sinusoidal component of lowest frequency present in the first term on the right-hand side of equation ( 10.45 ) can be neglected compared with the first term on the left-hand side . |
| 15 | Therefore , as long as for the sinusoidal component of lowest frequency present in the first term on the right-hand side of equation ( 10.45 ) can be neglected compared with the first term on the left-hand side . |
| 16 | Unix System Laboratories and the Open Software Foundation look to be headed towards their first puff on the proverbial peace pipe at the Destiny launch on June 16 . |
| 17 | When the effect of one cell on another is directly by way of a modification of the synapse that the first cell makes on the second , this is known as a homosynaptic effect ; when the effect of the first cell on the second is modulated by the behaviour of a third cell synapsing on either of the other two , this is called a heterosynaptic effect . |
| 18 | The pursuers were keeping up as best they could but held little hope of catching him , though at the first fence on the second circuit — the seventeenth in the race — Red Rum could be seen to be keeping on gamely . |
| 19 | The hallway was dark , but Michael Collins made his way without hesitation to the first doorway on the right hand side and tapped once , then twice and once again in an obviously prearranged signal . |
| 20 | TWIN brothers Damon and Adam Shilton , 17 , of Oldbury , West Midlands , passed their driving tests at the first attempt on the same day . |
| 21 | First car on the extended Circular Tour , April 1932 . |
| 22 | Simon Vinkenoog , the founder of Sigma Nederland provided a piece from Amsterdam for the first issue on the then prominent Provos , the proto-Green anarchists who had just won seats on that city 's council . |
| 23 | Whatever happens , the Scot , who meets Dennis Taylor in the last 16 , is guaranteed to leapfrog back over Jimmy White into first place on the provisional world ranking list . |
| 24 | Her first appearance on the operatic stage was more of a stumble than a début . |
| 25 | The combination of a massively-expanded market for Ecstasy and a shortage of supply has led to Ketamine making its first appearance on the British black market . |
| 26 | After the election of 28 June 1973 the Northern Ireland Constitution Act became law on 18 July and the Assembly held its first meeting on the 31st . |
| 27 | He signs each person 's first name on the Muslim literature and hugs and is hugged by everybody from three-year-old tykes to their 80-year-old great-grandmas . |
| 28 | Boris Becker has withdrawn from the Australian hard-court tournament in Adelaide , the first event on the new ATP tour , but is still expected to play in the New South Wales Open starting in Sydney on January 8 . |
| 29 | Commercial microscope slides rarely meet this requirement and so are first ground on the flat lapping machine as described above for rock slices . |
| 30 | He started his first season on the professional circuit by winning 21 of his first 24 matches , reaching the final of the Asian Open in his native Bangkok in August , with three wins over top 10 players before losing to Stephen Hendry . |