Example sentences of "from the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the state was not present in his novels from the first , it is there in One Fat Englishman , and in Jake 's Thing . |
| 2 | For , from the first , a mighty endless chain |
| 3 | But it was from the first emphasised that a priesthood of succession should be established through Aaron , Moses ' brother . |
| 4 | Prized most of all was the collection of classical poetry — from John Donne to Robert Browning — which enhanced the Hebraic and Yiddish verse that had been with him from the first . |
| 5 | From the first ballets de cour until the beginning of the twentieth century music was always specially commissioned . |
| 6 | The scenes between Hilarion , Giselle , Albrecht and Bathilde are reminiscent of the scenes that develop Tybalt 's hatred of Romeo from the first fight between Montague and Capulet to his discovery of Romeo with Juliet after their first meeting at the ball , and finally to the fight that ends in Tybalt 's death . |
| 7 | The control signal for the switch is derived from the first divider bistable ( at twice the core switching frequency ) by differentiating the square wave and clipping off the negative pulses with a diode . |
| 8 | Current I1 from the first is |
| 9 | The England that Pound mourns the loss of is , as it had been for him from the first , an integral province of western Europe , sharing a common culture with France and always reaching out , through France , to the shores of the Mediterranean . |
| 10 | For Pound 's animus against Virgil was deep-seated and virulent from the first , and it persisted . |
| 11 | He was what we have learned to call a WASP , and his lifetime coincided with the process , not yet quite completed , by which that caste — white Anglo-Saxon protestants of the northeast — was supplanted from the position of privilege that they had enjoyed from the first days of the Republic . |
| 12 | How early Pound came by this perception is not clear , but certainly he had no illusions from the first that his Cantos , building as they did on the rhythmical and thematic procedures of Homage to Sextus Propertius , would be found readily acceptable . |
| 13 | In a poem designed on such a scale ( and this evidence of ‘ design ’ on such a scale from the first is astonishing ) it was obviously illegitimate to look , as Edmund Wilson did , for emotional or affective unity in each or any Canto in isolation . |
| 14 | This is the brickbat that has been thrown at Pound from the first , and is thrown at him still , because of his unswerving attention to what makes poetry poetry , and not some other sort of discourse versified . |
| 15 | It will require a miracle for Bedford to retain their status , even allowing for their few plus points — a top New Zealand coach , the arrival of a useful looking New Zealand scrum-half , and the fact that if the three national divisions are expanded , as proposed , next season , only one team will be going down from the First Division . |
| 16 | Rangers , precariously ahead 2-1 from the first leg , conceded four corners in 12 frenetic minutes . |
| 17 | The first defendant , Capricorn , a company registered in Panama , was the owner of a valuable reliquary which was an important piece of ancient Pakistan art of the Gandhara period , dating from the first century AD . |
| 18 | There was another major upset when Ross Norman , the sixth-seeded New Zealander who won the world title in 1986 by ending Jahangir Khan 's 51 2 -year unbeaten run , was also eliminated from the first round . |
| 19 | Coventry , who have not won in the three matches Regis has missed with a calf-muscle injury , trail 3-1 from the first leg , but Drinkell was optimistic , saying : ‘ It 's not irretrievable . |
| 20 | Speelman and Timman had agreed a draw on Tuesday night in their adjourned game from the first round . |
| 21 | Having started the match eight points down from the first leg , Hemel spent the first half apparently doing everything they could to double the deficit . |
| 22 | The Third Division side , holding a 2-1 advantage from the first leg of their Littlewoods Cup tie , were well placed at 1-1 before Trevor Morley struck twice in as many minutes and David Oldfield added another to wrap up City 's 5-3 aggregate win . |
| 23 | Right from the first , the CIA and American diplomats knew all about the corruption , the misgovernment , the croneyism , the human rights violations , the ballot-rigging . |
| 24 | From the First World War until the mid-Sixties , administrative — or ‘ public ’ — law scarcely existed beyond the pioneering textbooks of Stanley de Smith and Sir William Wade QC . |
| 25 | He was surprised to receive shortly afterwards an invoice from the first agency informing him that his Visa account had been debited for £153 for tickets he did n't know he had bought . |
| 26 | He demanded a refund from the first agents but they refused , arguing that because he had given them his credit card number he had entered into a contract . |
| 27 | Only spirited defending of the highest order and considerable good fortune enabled Manchester United to progress beyond Silesia in 1968 : despite losing 1-0 to Gornik , Sir Matt Busby 's vision of winning the European Cup was still intact as the result of a two-goal advantage from the first leg . |
| 28 | Dealers emerged from the first day 's sale of the Blackmer library gasping at the high prices . |
| 29 | I repaired the large drone as best I could , using a piece of sticking plaster from the First Aid kit , and then decided to try them out . |
| 30 | You can then start to pay SSP from the first qualifying day . |