Example sentences of "on the first [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Corresponding in their insignificance to the islets of the sea , two small clumps of trees , one on each side of the only fault in the impeccable joint , marked the mouth of the river Meinam we had just left on the first preparatory stage of our homeward journey ; and , far back on the inland level , a larger and loftier mass , the grove surrounding the great Paknam pagoda , was the only thing on which the eye could rest from the vain task of exploring the monotonous sweep of the horizon ( 4 ) .
2 A similar system of HLCA payments is suggested to those available anywhere in the UK 's LFA ( minimum qualifying area per farm of 3 hectares ; maximum payments of 97 ECU/LU ) but with the added provision that HLCAs can be paid on the first 10 dairy cows per farm .
3 The combined effect is to benefit the smaller and the more handicapped farms and MacEwen and Sinclair predict an overall HLCA saving of£3.2 million which could go to upland farms in a range of measures , including the payment of HLCAs on the first 10 dairy cows per farm .
4 The vertical axis measures the actual return from the security and the horizontal axis measures the return on the first systematic factor .
5 The International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) in Vienna is close to finishing its report on the first systematic study of the Chernobyl region by outsiders .
6 A heading entitled ‘ New Actions ’ includes information on the first European Conference on Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution .
7 The dorsal arm plates are fan shaped and contiguous only on the first 2–3 arm segments , the plates in profile appear to be slightly swollen .
8 After his return to the ward Mr Reynolds ' temperature rose slowly until it reached 37 C. On the first post-operative morning his temperature was above normal limits ( 37.8 C ) .
9 On the first major privatisation — that of British Telecom — the right hon. Member for Hertsmere ( Mr. Parkinson ) gave the game away when he said : ’ I have decided against breaking up BT before offering it to the public .
10 Clinton needs 2,145 delegates to win outright on the first Democratic Party ballot at the July convention .
11 On the first official day of training on the course , the snow was soft and the conditions became extremely bumpy during the training run .
12 Colin Montgomerie , who took third place at Pebble Beach last year , was a late starter on the first official practice day after finishing 12 shots behind Vijay Singh in the Buick Classic .
13 Well illustrated throughout in expansive colour , it gathers together chapters on the first four World Cups , Packer cricket , Sharjah etc , and individual feats , with a chosen World XI .
14 Payment of the disturbance allowance at the Yorkshire Bank is also made in two equal instalments ; one is given on the first available salary pay day after the move to the new house , the other is paid when the bank receives the proceeds of the sale of the employee 's old house .
15 Lambert nursed his coughing , shaking aircraft back to the field and thankfully touched down on the first available yard of turf .
16 On the first available flight .
17 The procedure will be started at 17.50 on the first available evening after receipt of the form .
18 The procedure will be started at 17.50 on the first available evening following receipt of the form .
19 The procedure will be started at 17.50 on the first available evening after receipt of the form .
20 The procedure will usually be started at 17.50 on the first available evening after receipt of the form .
21 Although it can be very tempting to splash out on the first splendid specimen that catches your eye , you might be surprised at what you can find once you really start looking .
22 Despite the efforts of hordes of gluttonous ants who dined on much of the grass seed , the first game on the first Spanish cricket ground was played there on Saturday , January 11 and the club hosted the Inter-Island Balearic Championships over the first weekend of May .
23 The anticipated challenge from Ford 's Sierra Cosworths ended when all three drivers made mistakes on the first sodden day , leaving Subaru and Mazda to fill out the top placings .
24 The tide would carry them inland at least two miles and possibly three before they were beached on the first low ridge that had been the coastline a million years before the birth of Christ .
25 The English Ladies ' Golf Association , with typical attention to detail , arranged for their national coach , John Garner , to be in attendance on the first two practice days .
26 If Quigley had ever had a chance of regaining his grip on the First Spiritualist Church of South Wimbledon , he had lost all hope of it now .
27 The rules are not always as simple s that , e.g. Classical Arabic has the stress on the first long syllable of the word , or on the first syllable if there are no long syllables in the word .
28 Early thrombolysis will place a very heavy burden of responsibility of correct diagnosis on the first general practitioner or physician to attend the patient .
29 Then at Dunkirk we set off on the first 400-mile stage to our overnight stop at Vandanesse .
30 The peak was marked by Ptolemy , Egyptian geographer and astronomer , on the first known map of the British Isles ; and it was here , in 1774 , that Nevil Maskelyne , Astronomer Royal , conducted his experiments to determine the mean density of planet earth .
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