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

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1 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 .
2 The arrow points from the first node a of the pair ( a , b ) towards the second , b .
3 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 .
4 All this suspicion arose from the first nylon yarn that appeared on the market .
5 More specifically , the accident resulting from the first incident had only taken place because of a concatenation of events leading to it which could not have been foreseen .
6 For pre-industrial society , youth was a long transition period lasting from the first signs of independence of the young child to marriage .
7 Accident reports from the first decade indicate that some did on the Great Northern Coalfield , but hardly any did so by 1780 .
8 The signalling dates from the First World War and will cost £400 000 to replace .
9 The second word is the noun formed from the first word , the verb .
10 FIG. 2 Two example displays from the first experiment .
11 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 .
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 lift operates from the first floor .
14 Beginning at the turn of the century , agreements between Iran and France created a French monopoly on excavations at Susiana , an intercultural trading centre dating from the first millennium to the late fourth century .
15 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 .
16 As I have described , she had consulted me many years back over a libel matter which I had discouraged her — unsuccessfully — from pursuing , with calamitous financial results ; but I was able to give her a little assistance in another matter which to some small extent repaired the damage arising from the first disaster .
17 The overall median hospital stay from the first stage of percutaneous cholecystolithotomy was three days ( range one to 33 ) .
18 The median hospital stay from the first stage in patients with acute complications was 12 days ( range three to 33 ) .
19 The street is closed by the Black Tower , part of the castle 's fortification system dating from the first half of the 12C .
20 This particular guitar comes from the first phase of the Les Paul Custom , the single-coil era of 1954 to 1957 .
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