Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] from the first " in BNC.

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1 The young Aberdeen side were relegated from the first division of the indoor league , but they are better disciplined outdoors and with such a wealth of talent at their disposal they will take some shifting .
2 Data were returned from the first fly-by and from the next two , on 21 September 1974 and 16 March 1975 .
3 Before long England were benefitting from the first of a string of catches dropped by both sides , and their total of 263 was over a hundred more than it would have been had Boycott , Woolmer and Botham not had a second chance .
4 A not untypical pattern of distortion of sensation was reported from the first documented vigil of this sort :
5 The ‘ normal ’ image was generated from the first 12 scans obtained from patients with Crohn 's disease .
6 Patient years of observation were measured from the first date of a prescription up to the patient 's death or 31 October 1990 .
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