Example sentences of "the first [noun pl] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , for the following one we bought the first meals on wheels van so that with all the money that we 've collected for Harlow day we bought something out of the money . |
| 2 | Over a third of the ‘ Eminence ’ output is new recordings , so we also have the first appearances on discs of Litton , Hough and Iŝan Edwards . |
| 3 | Bulford , where the Avon and the Nine Mile River meet , is just a short distance from Stonehenge , and was one of the first sites on Salisbury Plain to be bought by the War Office at the turn of the century and turned into a garrison , bringing new industry to a village that had previously been dependent on agriculture . |
| 4 | The first games on Saturday start at 10am , those on Sunday at 10.30am . |
| 5 | When this occurred in the first organisms on earth , evolution began , for such mistakes in copying are the source of variations from which natural selection can produce evolutionary change . |
| 6 | One of the first faces on screen will be Chris Tarrant , already a familiar presenter . |
| 7 | Trilobites were the first creatures on earth to develop high-definition eyes . |
| 8 | Niki Harris , a ‘ Blonde Ambition ’ back-up singer , will reportedly be one of the first acts on Madonna 's Maverick record label , along with tour dancers Jose Gutierrez and Luis Camacho . |
| 9 | There must be occasional errors in the self-copying ; even the DNA system very occasionally makes mistakes , and it seems likely that the first replicators on Earth were much more erratic . |
| 10 | The first stage was the period of pioneering work : the abortive first attempts at machine translation ; the earliest computer concordances ; the early authorship studies of Morton , Ellegard , Mosteller and Wallace ; the first conferences on computing in the humanities ( 1964–7 ) and the more specialised ones in history and anthropology ( from 1962 ) and in literature and linguistics ( from 1970 ) . |
| 11 | The first databases on CD-ROM were largely textual and appeared in 1985 . |
| 12 | The first plants on Earth were a kind of fern , the pteriodophytes , a member of a super-order known as gymnosperms . |
| 13 | He was one of the first passengers on MARTA , the Atlanta underground , when it opened in 1979 , rode the new tube in Fukuoka two years later and in the following year watched the building of MMTA in Baltimore and the metro in Caracas . |