Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] from [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Ideally the Civic Society would like to see far more drastic policy change , possibly thinking in terms of forty hectares but we realize the minimum possible would be the thirty point five hectares which is hanging over from the first phase of the structure plan , and so that must of course be regarded as committed .
3 The Christian theme occurs right from the first line with the word ‘ ministry ’ and the hidden word ‘ spirit ’ .
4 If you find this difficult to understand , take any of your punchcards , and count up from the first pattern row to the number 1 in the margin .
5 The portal was commissioned by Gaston IV , the then Count of Béarn , when he came back from the First Crusade .
6 Stan Bate , his worship the Lord Mayor of Stoke-on-Trent , drives off from the first tee to open officially the city 's new municipal golf course at Weston Coyney .
7 His assertion that the problem remains and is handed down from the first generation of Homo sapiens to the present one in the institutions of religion and art seems to be , prima facie , very plausible .
8 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 .
9 There are two other necessary ingredients , which will normally arise automatically from the first ingredient , self-replication itself .
10 Women are so utterly used to working with their own bodies : we are trained to do so from the first time we wear pink-for-a-girl , and a concentration upon the significations of our physicality is encouraged to a far greater extent than is the case with boys and men .
11 ‘ This is something I should have done days ago ; something I 've wanted to do almost from the first moment we met , yet I 've fought against it every step of the way , just as you have .
12 Er , thank you , Mr Chairman , to me erm , this went on from the first paper that chose the effects of the food and management of the er , the fire local services , whereas carried through and it will be interesting to see next year er what the situation is , in order to the position of the as it were , this year , benefit of everything that has previous administration .
13 You can almost tell just from the first time they 're doing their marking .
14 Project Blaenau , as the F.R. called it , grew rapidly from the first meeting of the three-man ‘ Communications and Action Panel ’ in early 1980 and in the two years leading up to the opening , over 70 mini projects were designed and constructed by a combination of volunteers and paid staff .
15 Every teacher probably derives more from the first teacher with whom he works than any other and I have no doubt in my mind that Basil was by far the most influential person in my first years as a teacher .
16 Macmillan , the publisher , had a quantity of ‘ sheets ’ left over from the first printing and shipped them over to Appleton & Co. , the American publishers .
17 It is still there , and , periodically , repressed material returns to set problems for man which remain unresolved , left over from the first parricide .
18 There is decreased ability to stay away from the first use in any day of the substance or process of addiction .
19 The NatWest Hospital Income Plan covers you in the event of hospitalisation and pays out from the first day you 're admitted .
20 They follow on from the first set and the opening balances are already entered .
21 Then she brought him her account book , which she had kept faithfully from the first day of opening her house , and showed him the state of things .
22 They have a 12-point deficit to claw back from the first Gold Cup leg at Glasgow , and judging from Sunday 's encouraging performance against Edinburgh , they should be able to clinch the bonus point for an aggregate victory .
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