Example sentences of "the first [noun] on [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Brisbane , Sri Lanka ground out their highest score in the three Tests they have played against Australia , adding 194 in six hours yesterday to end the third day of the first Test on 275 for six . |
| 2 | The first post-mortem on one of Young 's victims — Fred Biggs — had found no traces of thallium in the body , although later microscopic analysis revealed there were several hundred milligrams , more than enough to kill him . |
| 3 | REMEMBRANCE was one of the first Film on Four projects . |
| 4 | The Reprographics Officer , Derek Lawrie , should be contacted in the first instance on 031–317 7200 extension 281 . |
| 5 | Torquay then pounded the Quakers with high and in-swinging balls , but the first goal on 13 minutes came from ground level . |
| 6 | The first contributions were paid on 1 July 1912 , the first benefits on 1 January 1913 . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ The new season does not start until October but we will be holding our own practice matches before then , starting with the first event on 17 June at the big pool at Barlaston . |
| 8 | Proudly proclaiming that this recording contains for the first time on one CD all of Bach 's Toccatas and Fugues ( including the Prelude and Fugue in E minor BWV548 ) , it is indeed a well-stocked programme . |
| 9 | The prototype , F-WLKB , flew for the first time on 4 May 63 with Pratt and Whitney JT-12A-8 engines of 3,000 lbs thrust . |
| 10 | It was The Association of Women Artists and Friends of Art in Berlin , an association of women artists , who banded together for the first time on 13 January , 1867 , to overcome some of the structural obstacles to women artists . |
| 11 | Under contract from the Business Jets Division of Pan Am , Little Rock Airmotive in Arkansas converted a Standard Falcon into a specialised cargo aircraft , the prototype flying for the first time on 28 Mar 72 . |
| 12 | The Secret Committee on the Peasant Question , which convened for the first time on 3 January 1857 , consisted entirely of Nicholaevan grandees . |
| 13 | It met for the first time on 25 February 1986 and includes representatives from the Departments of Transport , Environment , Employment , and Trade and Industry ; Kent County Council ; the district councils of ; elected members of Kent local authorities and Parliamentary constituencies ; Eurotunnel ; Transmanche Link ; and British Rail . |
| 14 | It is perhaps surprising to find that Jacques married for the first time on 31 March 1728 at the age of 55 . |
| 15 | Read the first time on 12 February 1844 , his creditors and debtors bill was read a second time on 30 April . |
| 16 | The infantry went to church in their new uniforms for the first time on 9 September , and had the singular honour , a month later , of joining their fellows in the cavalry who were escorting the funeral cortège of the late Earl of Cork ‘ in slow and decorous movement suitable to the solemnity of the occasion ’ . |
| 17 | What had been intended as a warning shot across the government 's bows has sunk a government that had given Poland a year of political continuity , maintained budgetary austerity against populist opposition and taken the first steps on two essential reforms that now go into limbo . |
| 18 | Alured was named to the high court of justice to try the king , attended the first meeting on 8 January , attended the first sitting on 20 January , was present when sentence was pronounced , and signed the king 's death warrant . |
| 19 | Pelham was named to the high court of justice to try the king , attended the first meeting on 6 January 1649 , commenced sitting on the court on its first day , 20 January , was one of the most zealous and faithful attenders of sittings ( absent only once ) , was present when the sentence was read out , and signed the king 's death-warrant . |
| 20 | They completed the works required by the first notice on 7 September 1983 . |
| 21 | Moxon 's first revised plan was to continue the first innings on 317 for seven but he then decided to declare in an attempt to bowl out Somerset twice . |
| 22 | Formal veterinary instruction began in France in 1762 , when the world 's first veterinary school opened in Lyons , where a 24-year-old named Laurent Gaillard became the first pupil on 16 February . |