Example sentences of "first [vb pp] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | In their libretto for Offenbach 's opéra bouffe , Gaieté Parisienne , which was first given on the Paris stage in 1867 , Halévy and Meilhac summed it up : |
| 2 | The solid foamed skin first formed on the top would then be steadily lifted by the foaming of the combustion-zone beneath and a vertical foamed ‘ pillar ’ rise from the block . |
| 3 | Where the , le let's say association was first formed on the thirteenth of February nineteen seven , nineteen thirty seven , so you can see by that date fifty years an established national organization for the whole of Scotland . |
| 4 | The element is first placed on the stripping machine where the contaminated cladding is cut away , then dropped on to a conveyor belt to be stored under water in concrete storage silos . |
| 5 | In so doing the newcomers have contributed to the sense of urban encroachment on rural political affairs among farmers and landowners which goes back over a much longer period , and which has been associated with changes in the institutions of political control in the countryside : the gradual decline in the personalized and autocratic power of the locally resident squirearchy and the transfer of public administration to a more formal and impersonal framework of local government since local politics were first placed on a democratic footing in 1888 . |
| 6 | To help achieve this , the proposed Trust would aim to give all patients a date for admission to hospital when first placed on the waiting list . ’ |
| 7 | Within the NAC fall such aeronautical milestones as A V Roe 's second Triplane ( first flown on July 13 , 1909 ) ; Leon Levavasseur 's Antoinette monoplane of 1910 ; Alcock and Brown 's Vimy IV ( see page 37 ) ; Amy Johnson 's immortal Gipsy Moth Jason of 1931 ; the Schneider Trophy winning Supermarine S.6B along with the trophy itself and the Gloster E28/39 — Britain 's first jet aircraft along with an example of the Whittle W1 engine . |
| 8 | Prototype F.I Z1826 , first flown on December 12 , 1941 . |
| 9 | What were first painted on London 's streets in June 1958 ? |
| 10 | For the English-speaking nations , this concept was first realised on a substantial scale in what is now known as The Oxford English Dictionary , ( originally entitled A New English dictionary on Historical Principles ) . |
| 11 | They were first developed on seaplanes to encourage them to take off at lower speeds and are now a common feature on speedboats . |
| 12 | Within a few days the oil slick , first reported on Jan. 24 , had grown to measure 55 km long by 15 km wide . |
| 13 | Reports also suggested that the call for fresh talks had been prompted by disagreements , first reported on June 24 , between Barzani and Talabani over Barzani 's reported acceptance of an autonomy deal involving the suspension of Kurdish requests for continued Western assistance . |
| 14 | The attacks on the minority Tutsis by Hutus in the Bugesera region were first reported on March 7 . |
| 15 | They will apply to all business properties which were first occupied on or before 31st March 1990 . |
| 16 | He also confirmed the dismissal , first disclosed on Jan. 10 , of Minister without portfolio Jenö Gerbovics . |
| 17 | Until Sell 's death in 1915 they were jointly responsible for teaching in the university chemical laboratory , at first located on the east side of the site of the former Botanic Garden and after 1887 in a new building in Pembroke Street . |
| 18 | Just as the believer in Christ seeks to rise through the historical Son of man to the Son of God , so also in scripture the literal sense is the first rung on the ladder to the eternal spiritual meaning . |
| 19 | One obvious problem is that such imagery may lead us to undervalue the significance of the impersonal , particularly if we treat it somehow as the valueless first rung on the ladder of being . |
| 20 | And Adam would have what was proper for someone of his age and standing in the world , a terraced cottage in North Finchley or maybe Crouch End , the first rung on the slow ladder of upward mobility . |
| 21 | She welcomes discomfort , counts hostile situations and relishes third world countries , for she is driven by her life long ambition to be a travel photographer and this trip marked the first rung on the ladder . |
| 22 | She welcomes discomfort , counts hostile situations and relishes third world countries , for she is drive by her life long ambition to be a travel photographer and this trip marked the first rung on the ladder . |
| 23 | That is the first rung on the ladder of karate learning for the black belt . |
| 24 | First featured on the 12″ version of ‘ William , It Was Really Nothing ’ , the song did n't reveal all its glory until heard within the context of ‘ Hatful ’ . |
| 25 | These lively , white-cheeked diving duck with their stiff tails , hence their alternative name , first featured on the wildfowl count at Abberton in September 1980 . |
| 26 | His memories of that triumph had , of course , been soured by her departure , and now it was he who wore the hungry , yearning look he 'd first seen on Furie 's face . |
| 27 | ON SEPTEMBER 5 — a week before he was first seen on campus — Marc Lepine acquired a firearms certificate from the Sûreté du Quebec . |
| 28 | BBC1 screened Good Morning Yesterday , first seen on BBC2 and the origin of the series The View from Daniel Pike . |
| 29 | They had first met on a school paperchase when they strayed off course and returned late after nightfall . |
| 30 | The most enthusiastic advocate of ‘ Gregorian ’ liberty during these years was Hugh , bishop of Die and later archbishop of Lyons , whom Anselm first met on his way to Rome in 1097 , and with whom he spent the last eighteen months of his exile from May 1099 to August 1100 . |