Example sentences of "the first [noun sg] on [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The commission 's chair , Peter Tucker , said at the first session on Nov. 13 that it would consider the issue of single- or multiparty forms of government . |
| 2 | The ballot of the AEEU 's one million members , which will take place from 1 March , will be the first referendum on TUC membership . |
| 3 | Michael Jackson will be the first man on Mars , if he is n't already . |
| 4 | Lawrence would have preferred the first leg on Sunday , March 1 . |
| 5 | The teams will leave Liverpool on the first leg on Sunday , November 15 , but the actual challenge begins on Wednesday , November 18 . |
| 6 | United will be at home in the first leg on September the twenty second and away at Villa Park two weeks later . |
| 7 | The £1m Celtic player was in the near full-house crowd for the first leg on Wednesday night . |
| 8 | Bracknell defeated Keflavik 106-91 in Iceland on Thursday for a 250-196 aggregate win , and are at home to Milan in the first leg on Thursday 26 October . |
| 9 | Tala-Tala , he explained , five miles up the road , had the first church on Koraloona because it was built by the first missionaries to arrive on the island . |
| 10 | Her mother answered the first call on February 2 when Cardwell gave the name Tara and asked Tricia to call her back . |
| 11 | Rovers went third in the first division on Tuesday night with a resounding 3-0 win over Southend at Prenton Park . |
| 12 | One week after the first raid on Exeter , the Germans returned in force , and devastated the centre of Exeter . |
| 13 | The catalogue , containing essays by J. Patrice Marandel , Curator of European Sculpture at the Detroit Institute of Art ( and curator of the 1978 Chicago Show ) , Dianne Pitman , a Bazille scholar whose dissertation was the first devoted to his work , and François Daulte , author of the Bazille catalogue raisonné , is , remarkably , the first publication on Bazille in English . |
| 14 | The owners paid the first instalment on April 28 , 1972 . |
| 15 | Romantic novelist Barbara Cartland will introduce the first instalment on October 12 . |
| 16 | Rod Wallace appears to be producing some good performances although he 's not putting all his chances away — those misses in the first half on Saturday would probably be crucial against a good side . |
| 17 | The first alleyway on Faltour 's Lane off Holborn Street . |
| 18 | The boys of 602 were on their second cup of tea and the ‘ Spits ’ half-refuelled when a full-scale bombing raid , the first attack on Britain of the war , began out in the Forth . |
| 19 | In April 1980 the first attack on Raybestos came yet again from the Ringaskiddy residents . |
| 20 | Otto Becker , a member of Germany 's silver medal team in the 1990 World Championships , proved his two World Cup horses are in top form by winning the first warm-up on Leandra , and then going clear , though with no pressure , on Landmann in the speed class . |
| 21 | Two further rounds of voting in the multiparty elections to the National Assembly took place on Oct. 21 and 28 following the suspension and partial annulment of the first round on Sept. 21 [ p. 37701 ] , which had been characterized by disorder and irregularities . |
| 22 | In the first round on Sept. 27 Iliescu and Constantinescu had gained 47.34 and 31.24 per cent respectively [ for first round results and background information , see p. 39104 ] ; in the second Iliescu won 61.43 per cent and Constantinescu 38.57 per cent , with a 73.2 per cent turnout . |
| 23 | The second round of multiparty legislative elections on March 8 confirmed the lead of the Alliance for Democracy in Mali ( ADEMA ) in the first round on Feb. 23 [ see p. 38754 ] . |
| 24 | After the first round on March 25 interest centred on how party alliances would be drawn up . |
| 25 | The 50-member High Council of the Republic ( HCR ) , the transitional government established by the February 1990 conference , officially confirmed the results of the first round on March 14 . |
| 26 | The first round on March 24 had failed to produce a winner because the turnout had fallen well short of the required 50 per cent , but in the second round the required 25 per cent turnout was just exceeded . |
| 27 | In the first round on April 30 , when 180 votes ( three-fifths of the total ) were required for a candidate to be successful , Karamanlis had received 149 votes , Alevras 123 and Despotopoulos 21 . |
| 28 | Vargas Llosa , who had led on the first round on April 8 [ see p. 37371 ] , now won only 2,713,442 ( 33.92 per cent ) . |
| 29 | Having failed to secure an absolute majority in the first round on April 12 ( his share of the vote was 44.95 per cent ) , Konare was obliged to contest a run-off against Tieoule Mamadou Konate , leader of the Sudanese Union-African Democratic Rally ( US-RDA ) ( who won 14.51 per cent of the vote in the first round . |
| 30 | Tapie 's suit will aim to force the French Federation and French League to name Marseille as the country 's representatives to play AEK Athens in the first round on September 15 . |