Example sentences of "the first [noun pl] on " 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 | Tennis The competitions involve boys and girls in the under-12 and under-14 age groups and the first matches on the centre 's main tennis courts are at 9.30 am each day . |
| 3 | This view led to the first restrictions on private members ' capacity to interrupt or hold up business whenever they liked — or whenever they could get the House to listen to them , for there was always considerable self-discipline . |
| 4 | I used to come home , I used to go down there about , I used to start out away from the shop about er ten o'clock , half past ten , you see , in the morning and go down the Fen , call at then comes well I used to call on the first houses on the right the way down the Fen there I used to go down farm they used to call it , come back to and then on to you see . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The hits that were the first choices on every juke box between 1956 and 1964 nostalgia-soaked favourites from rock 's bright young stars . |
| 7 | These , it was thought , were just the first countries on the list . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Stair has his spyes in every quarter and even at the first posts on the several roads , ’ complained one irate conspirator , but often their work was easy for , as Bolingbroke observed , the most secret plans were a subject of gossip ‘ among women over their tea ’ . |
| 10 | The first games on Saturday start at 10am , those on Sunday at 10.30am . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | One of the first faces on screen will be Chris Tarrant , already a familiar presenter . |
| 13 | Trilobites were the first creatures on earth to develop high-definition eyes . |
| 14 | The first contributions were paid on 1 July 1912 , the first benefits on 1 January 1913 . |
| 15 | The first trials on HIV-infected individuals are planned for later this year . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | When you land on the icescape you can imagine how the first men on the moon felt . |
| 18 | Flying officer , Alan Watt , who was one of the rescuing team , was one of the first men on the scene . |
| 19 | At the beginning of 1812 the first attacks on shearing frames by the Yorkshire croppers began . |
| 20 | The Chronicle C text puts the first attacks on Æthelred 's England under 980 , when Thanet and Cheshire were harried , and Southampton ravaged and most of its citizens killed or captured . |
| 21 | The first steps on the ice were amazing . |
| 22 | GOVERNORS at Colchester County High School have voted to take the first steps on the road to opting out . |
| 23 | Accordingly I directed my researches to the first steps on the ladder , the branch and workshop . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | We may suspect that the first replicators on the primitive Earth were not DNA molecules . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The first centres on the composition of a Palestinian delegation that would hold talks with Israel in Cairo . |
| 28 | One can chart the seasons by the changes in the paintings : the appearance of the first Impressionists on the walls in early November always tell me it 's time to get out the winter overcoat . |
| 29 | The first policemen on the scene , Pcs Jim Birtwell and Warren Pash , saw one dog was attacking Mr Daszczuk about the head and the other biting his arms and legs . |
| 30 | Right from the beginning , he fought the signs of ill health which were the first scribblings on the wall . |