Example sentences of "the [adj] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 31 | My name was the first to go on the Dux board in the school hall of the brand-new , glass-walled building only just completed the year before . |
| 32 | The first depends on the views I have already expressed . |
| 33 | Despite claims made by Henry Faulds , who was the first to publish on the subject , the importance of Herschel 's contribution is generally recognized . |
| 34 | The Queen Mother was one of the first to arrive on the scene . |
| 35 | The first to rise on the racecourse were the chefs . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | That is the first rung on the ladder of karate learning for the black belt . |
| 41 | One of the first stops on the way was London , where The Graduate was yet to become a hit , so Dustin was able to walk the streets in peace . |
| 42 | The problem here is that the transhistorical account of the Oedipal crisis and the consequent focusing on the eternal problems of the shaping of sex and gender already presupposes the existence of basic drives which are outside culture . |
| 43 | The five spent on the line is to enable them to have three photographic run-pasts where passengers will be given the opportunity to disembark , stand clear of the track and photograph the train at some remote and picturesque location . |
| 44 | These four parts correspond , in both nomenclature and clef usage , to four of the five parts of the Lullian string ensemble ; the one string part for which there is no equivalent oboe is the quinte de violon , the one notated on the fourth staff from the top , in the alto clef ( C3 ) . |
| 45 | The lottery of life is an enticing work — not least in showing how one of the most exciting sectors of applied biomedical science in the 1990s rests on the curiosity-oriented work ( much of it conducted in Cambridge , England ) of the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 46 | If any of the above apply on the first day of the PIW , do not pay SSP . |
| 47 | The shape of the inner depends on the design of the tent , but to all but lightweight buffs it can be the deciding factor of your purchase . |
| 48 | These can be read as standing stones , that you hear the Celtic lament on the sound track , and this piece again has a kind of environmental , ecological background that Judith was using , to do with how we live with technology all the time around us , and also juxtaposing that with , with the natural world . |
| 49 | The two devices are among the biggest detonated on the mainland . |
| 50 | If the insured insists on the original invoice being returned to him the invoice should be noted and stamped to show that the GA have included this invoice as part of a claims settlement . |
| 51 | Since the size of the residual depends on the efficiency of the firm , the monitor has an interest in ensuring that the firm is run as efficiently as possible . |
| 52 | Castro delayed his traditional July 26 speech marking the anniversary of the 1953 attack on the Moncada Barracks , a pivotal event in the Cuban revolution , and combined it with a speech on the 35th anniversary of the Cienfuegos uprising . |
| 53 | Of the 104 launched on the first day of the war , it seems , 10–20 fell from the sky . |
| 54 | THE predicted overspend on the new British Library would have paid for a £1 million public library for every UK local authority , leaving over £100 million for an extension to the British Museum Reading Room with a new underground storage area — which was what everyone wanted in the first place . |
| 55 | There are 3 heads to the triceps ; 2 of them have their origins on the humerus and the third originates on the shoulder blade . |
| 56 | The same paper reports the finding of a dead Striped Dolphin ( normally a Mediterranean species ) on Islay , the third found on the Scottish west coast this year . |
| 57 | The nature of Russia 's ‘ conquest ’ , ‘ subjugation ’ , ‘ annexation ’ or ‘ assimilation ’ of Siberia has been the subject of a good deal of historical debate , and is indeed discussed briefly in some of the following chapters , particularly those by Basil Dmytryshyn , David Collins and James Forsyth — the last concentrating on the ambiguous impact of the incoming Slavs on the aboriginal Siberian peoples — but what is important to underline in this introductory essay is that Muscovy 's expansion from the Urals to the Pacific in the seventeenth century was in a sense the territorial and colonial complement to the institutional consolidation of the political power of the Russian autocratic state . |
| 58 | She did not hear the quiet tread on the carpet , and when Rourke came and sat down beside her she drew in a quick , shaky breath , and let the brush clatter to the floor . |
| 59 | All you have to do is put the qualities for the Man of the Nineties listed on the coupon in order of what you consider to be important , from one to six . |
| 60 | According to " diplomatic sources " ( as cited in The Independent of April 4 ) , apart from handing over the Lockerbie subjects , Libya was being asked by Petrovsky to ( i ) provide the UK government with details of its contacts with the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) ; ( ii ) make a written renunciation of " terrorism " ; ( iii ) close five training camps used by the Palestinian Abu Nidal and other groups ; and ( iv ) extradite an individual who had allegedly been involved in the 1988 attack on the Greek cruise ship City of Poros . |