Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] from the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this suspicion arose from the first nylon yarn that appeared on the market . |
| 2 | Well , my feeling is , and it 's really the same message that you get from most greens and most environment books , is that under-consumption , that is poverty in the poor countries , is linked to over-consumption in the rich countries , and we have to grasp this nettle — it 's one that the Conservative Party in its White Paper on the environment avoids noticeably — we have to grasp the nettle , that as long as we are over-consuming there 's not going to be enough to go round everywhere , and my book shows that this pattern is really a three hundred year old pattern dating from the first Colonial expansion of Europe and the slave trade , and it 's still going on today . |
| 3 | The overall median hospital stay from the first stage of percutaneous cholecystolithotomy was three days ( range one to 33 ) . |
| 4 | The median hospital stay from the first stage in patients with acute complications was 12 days ( range three to 33 ) . |
| 5 | On 15 May , in a second telegram continuing from the first [ KP 120 ] , he reported on his " brief flying visit to General Keightley at Headquarters 5th Corps at Klagenfurt " . |
| 6 | When the teacher inhibits the child from pointing and pretends not to be able to see the picture , the child understands that the communicative situation has changed , that she can no longer rely on the shared visual context and she makes her reference explicit ( the teddy ) , locates him verbally rather than by pointing to him ( on the chair ) and makes explicit how the second picture differs from the first ( there ai n't no teddy ) . |
| 7 | The residence of the pope in an ancient imperial city had from the first been fragile . |
| 8 | The collection totals approximately 150 items comprising an historical survey of first-class material ranging from the first to the nineteenth century AD . |
| 9 | However , the contractual commitment stems from the first of those calls on the basis that it is followed up by the time agreed . |
| 10 | Middlesbrough are no Spartak , and were no match for Souness 's side , who shook off any possible European hangover to dominate from the first whistle . |
| 11 | This particular guitar comes from the first phase of the Les Paul Custom , the single-coil era of 1954 to 1957 . |
| 12 | The Paddy Hancox-trained flyer led from the first flight to win by three lengths in 31.06 secs , clipping an astonishing 27 spots off the record , which had been held by Brough Park 's Jenks Challenger . |
| 13 | FIG. 2 Two example displays from the first experiment . |