Example sentences of "[verb] from the first [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I accept that the law has from the first appearance of corporations , in the absence of any relevant statutory direction , considered the question of a corporation 's right to sue for defamation by reference to the nature of the corporation itself and the need for the corporation to protect its lawful activities and property . |
| 2 | Unsuccessful at first , southern whaling began to flourish from the first decade of the 20th century , based initially at shore stations on South Georgia , later on pelagic fleets of factory ships and catchers . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Analysis of questionnaire and sickness absence data collected from the first phase of the Whitehall II study . |
| 5 | Some galleries project from the first floor of the house ; others are on barn buildings above the yard . |
| 6 | The street is closed by the Black Tower , part of the castle 's fortification system dating from the first half of the 12C . |
| 7 | Turquoise was also present among the grave goods of Fu Hao , consort of a Shang king , in a tomb dating from the first half of the twelfth century B.C. One of several nephrite halberd blades was hafted in a bronze mount studded with turquoise inlay . |
| 8 | The inference to be drawn from the first part of his letter is that once Roman Catholics are in a voting majority they will automatically vote for a United Ireland . |
| 9 | But they do make sociolinguistic assumptions : in context it is clear that they also assume the early development of a socially elite variety , and we can see from the first sentence of the quotation that ‘ carefulness ’ is probably also involved . |
| 10 | Patient years of observation were measured from the first date of a prescription up to the patient 's death or 31 October 1990 . |
| 11 | For pre-industrial society , youth was a long transition period lasting from the first signs of independence of the young child to marriage . |
| 12 | We will make houses which meet high standards of energy efficiency exempt from the first £1000 of stamp duty when they are sold . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In particular , examples have been found of periodic behaviour occurring at higher r than chaotic for the same values of b and P. Changes are not necessarily in the direction of greater randomness the further one goes from the first instability of steady solutions . |
| 15 | The projects deriving from the first phase of the research programme cover topics like small firms , unemployment , career education in , and further education beyond , school , the agricultural sector in the economy , housing and the labour market . |
| 16 | It only starts counting from the first row of an entry and stops at the last . |
| 17 | BRITAIN 's biggest baker , Ranks Hovis McDougal , has emerged from the first half of 1992 much slimmer . |
| 18 | The CNAA knew from the first meeting of its sub-committee to discuss courses in education , in July 1965 , that the DES was moving towards a policy of teacher education in some technical colleges , and that the DES thought it reasonable that they should come to the CNAA for validation . |
| 19 | The overall median hospital stay from the first stage of percutaneous cholecystolithotomy was three days ( range one to 33 ) . |
| 20 | For the critic William Feaver , Treasure Island represents Minton 's greatest triumph as an illustrator , ‘ a surge of inky hysterics extending from the first creak of the shivering timbers of the Old Admiral Benbow to the vividly contrived Spyglass Hill ’ . |
| 21 | Some of these hawthorns , with their gnarled , twisted and burnished trunks , probably date from the first enclosure of the fields five or six generations ago . |
| 22 | Lessons had been learned from the first round of these activities , especially about accountability and communication between the governing body and parents . |
| 23 | On Thursday , a correct point of order was raised with Mr. Deputy Speaker about what one should do with matters arising from the first report of the Select Committee on Health . |
| 24 | This column displays the title of the mail message , constructed from the first line of the message . |
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