Example sentences of "on the first [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er we do the sales sometimes on the first on most cases now on the first er interview . |
| 2 | You got no help on the first at the Club , and anyone from a dirty old man to a randy adolescent could have written the others . ’ |
| 3 | Salim leaves them , takes off on the first of a series of ‘ flights ’ , and treks to the interior , to a country which appears to be compounded of the Congo and of Uganda , in order to earn a living from a store which he has acquired from a man whose daughter he is expected to marry one day . |
| 4 | In making a decision on the first of the three cases cited , the Commissioner communicated with the Chief Executive of the National Health Service Management Executive , asking him about a health authority 's duty to provide continuing nursing care which is assessed as being needed , and which is not otherwise available . |
| 5 | A far cry from the £2 tray meal handed out on the first of the Scenic Land Cruise trains eight years earlier , in a decade of special-train running where sophistication got its chance — and left behind many ordinary folk for whom the railway ‘ excursion ’ is now but a fading memory . |
| 6 | Here we have stumbled on the first of many . |
| 7 | At least 37 deaths were reported on the first of three days of polling . |
| 8 | European eyes are fixed on the first of these figures : public spending that is now shooting through the ceiling set in the EC 's self-denying ordinance of 1988 . |
| 9 | And to the sound of those notes , to the sound of the first simple phrase of that famous melody , Madame would lift the hem of her beaded silver and white dress and she would place her silver-shoed loot on the first of the six steps to the stage . |
| 10 | Miss Kingsley was a practical woman ; she had spent years housekeeping for her family and was thirty before she left on the first of her journeys to West Africa in 1893 , taking with her boots , blankets and a hot-water bottle . |
| 11 | By the end of the month Lloyd had retreated to Erasmus Darwin 's sanatorium in Lichfield , and Coleridge to Bristol , on the first of two short visits . |
| 12 | Nearer to home , the London Letter reported the elevation of Disraeli to the peerage ‘ for reasons of health ’ , also that ‘ the number of lunatics in England and Wales on the first of January last was 64,619 , being 1123 more than in the previous years . ’ |
| 13 | On Tuesday , they embark on the first of their midweek league fixtures , at home to Alresford with a 6 p.m. kick-off . |
| 14 | My birthday is on the first of — What could that last month be ? |
| 15 | Charlotte 's daughter was born on the first of June , a week or two earlier than expected . |
| 16 | On the first of these , as has already been indicated , recent legislation and policies have actually been detrimental to the interests of many old people . |
| 17 | Guests on the first of what Sandra hopes will be a series of specials were Tom and Roseanne Arnold , Tom Jones , ‘ a bunch of supermodels ’ , and a drag queen called Lipsynca . |
| 18 | Leave the carriage at plain knitting and it will knit in the E position needles with ease on the first of the rows that follow . |
| 19 | They are based on the circular setting , but on the first of the four rows ( row two ) the ribber must tuck . |
| 20 | ‘ Just after eight in the morning on the first of March . ’ |
| 21 | However , he got out of the commitment and at the age of 20 embarked on the first of many journeys to Europe . |
| 22 | Japan Computer Corp says it will start marketing three R3000a-based X terminals on the first of September , and expects to sell 9,000 units in the first 12 months of sales : The top-of-the-line Global XC20 includes a 20-inch colour screen , the XC17 a 17-inch colour screen and the low-end XG a 17-inch gray-scale monitor . |
| 23 | Including a review of material already published about women and philosophy , she distinguishes between female , feminine and feminist points of view , and then , focusing on the first of these , she considers how philosophy could or would be affected by the inclusion of more women in its institutional structures . |
| 24 | Using Bury as a ‘ cross-cut ’ , we ensure we are over our ‘ line ’ from a readily identifiable series of sharp bends on the first of those roads , and the pattern of minor roads leading off it ( O ) , later by the pattern of the cross-roads beneath us on the A134 ( P ) plus the twin power-lines . |
| 25 | On the first of these the influence of the ancient world was to be considerable . |
| 26 | On the first of these there must inevitably have been some continuation of the raising of teacher-awareness initiated by the involvement of teachers in the library committee and in making submissions to it for inclusion in the proposal . |
| 27 | The fleet had gone east to Lantic Bay that day , and the first boats were already returning on the first of the ebb . |
| 28 | Joined on the first of June and is each other initially to and also as a general of what goes on . |
| 29 | The main debate within planning has focused on the first of these types of development . |
| 30 | Still on the first of these two categories , more can be said about Potidaia from the Athenian Tribute Lists . |