Example sentences of "the first from " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Lacan desire itself becomes a splitting within the subject : ‘ desire is neither the appetite for satisfaction , nor the demand for love , but the difference resulting from the subtraction of the first from the second , the very phenomenon of their splitting ’ ( Lacan , Feminine Sexuality , 81 ) . |
| 2 | The central defender Peter Robinson , a student teacher , struck the first from 10 yards in the 33rd minute after Lawrie Pearson 's low shot had scudded against the heels of another Bay player , Kevin Todd . |
| 3 | Swansea , who had scored seven tries against Pontypridd the previous week , were restricted to two tries , the first from flanker Richard Webster , a former Dunvant player . |
| 4 | Payne 's was a splendid effort , for he three-putted the first from 12ft . |
| 5 | This has been attempted in two distinct phases , the first from 1962–69 with the initial development of the ‘ Entebbe ’ materials and the second from 1970 onwards with its adaptation and implementation through the activities of the West African Regional Mathematics Programme ( WARMP ) and the East African Regional Mathematics Programme . |
| 6 | The first and second year girls ' team ( Gemma Becke , Holly Lees , Martha Hocking , Sarah Hodgson and Hanah O'Boyle ) were the first from the school to win three consecutive races . |
| 7 | The irony is , Juice could have been the first from the starting blocks , as he explains from an unstreet sofa in a chintz sitting room in Soho 's exclusive Hazlitt 's Hotel . |
| 8 | He became the first from his club to be capped , in the Second Test of the recent tour of Australia in Hastings ' injury absence , and he played for Scotland ‘ A ’ against Spain in Madrid on September 12 . |
| 9 | Traditionally , a company of White Lions acts as the personal bodyguard of the Phoenix King in honour of the time they saved Caledor the first from Dark Elf assassins . |
| 10 | That will be the first from Unisys to run Unix System Labs ' ’ Destiny ’ 4.2 operating system , and will have up to three EISA slots . |
| 11 | The two will jointly license , develop and produce Personal Digital Assistants with the first from the alliance , set for mid-1993 , will use CD-ROMs storing text , audio and graphics . |
| 12 | But the greatest bliss was the Australian cricket troupe fresh off SS Macedonia , the first from that country to pay Ceylon more than a fleeting visit . |
| 13 | The gift to the Met , however , is the first from the couple 's collection . |
| 14 | Note that in the above discussion we have carefully distinguished the first from the second operand . |
| 15 | To this end , some computers provide " reverse " or " inverted " subtract and divide , which ( respectively ) subtract the first from the second operand and divide the second by the first operand . |
| 16 | Note that here the submatrix unc is unc and we can take the first two columns as linearly independent ; the third is obtained by subtracting half the first from the second . |
| 17 | The following two quotes , the first from a teacher and the second from a physiotherapist , are illustrative : |
| 18 | Two sets of ‘ expected ’ numbers were derived , the first from cancer rates in the general population of the west of Scotland ( first control group ) standardised for age , sex , and time period of observation . |
| 19 | Although his energies were devoted primarily to the international dimension of the anti-fascist struggle , his uncompromising opposition to those individuals and institutions within France actively assisting the spread of the fascist menace can be graphically illustrated by two examples , the first from the year 1935 , the second from the year 1939 . |
| 20 | Consideration of the Commission 's proposal for the telematics programme by both the European Parliament and the advisory bodies to the Research Council is going on apace and it is hoped that this programme will be one of the first from the third Framework programme to be adopted in 1991 . |
| 21 | From there he went on to Jesus College , Cambridge , the first from his school to get a Cambridge scholarship . |
| 22 | Sadi Carnot came to the second law of thermodynamics from pondering on the efficiency of an abstract and idealized engine ; and Helmholtz came to the first from considering simple mechanical devices such as trip-hammers driven by water-wheels . |
| 23 | Tragically , the monumental work written by this great traveller , the first from the British Isles to visit Abyssinia , was initially derided and discredited . |
| 24 | ‘ The first from Pondicherry in India , the second from Dundee in Scotland and the third from East London , ’ I answered . |
| 25 | Two examples of my own — the first from an argument between husband and wife : |
| 26 | The first from play and the second from a penalty and both combined to provide Monaghan with the incentive they needed after Cavan had threatened to overrun them . |
| 27 | So far 10 teachers from Britain have been selected to travel to Australia on the scheme , but Mr Orr is the first from Northern Ireland . |
| 28 | The country resumed shipments of crude oil from its Al-Ahmadi terminal on July 27 , the first from a national port since the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait . |
| 29 | The sixth person to hold the post and the first from the African continent , he would succeed Javier Pérez de Cuéllar on Jan. 1 , 1992 . |
| 30 | Hungary was admitted to the Eureka initiative on co-operation in high-technology projects , as the organization 's 21st member ( and the first from eastern Europe ) , at the 10th Eureka ministerial conference , held in Tampere , Finland , on May 23 . |