Example sentences of "[v-ing] from the first [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The street is closed by the Black Tower , part of the castle 's fortification system dating from the first half of the 12C . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It only starts counting from the first row of an entry and stops at the last . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Opposite the house , watching from the first floor of Mrs Aldiss 's — the Stones ' eccentric , over-imaginative neighbour — a CI5 agent called Monteith was a shadowy shape behind net curtaining . |
| 8 | A sum of $3.5 million had gone missing from the first shipment of TOW missiles in 1985 and a further $24 million could not be accounted for from one of North 's Swiss bank accounts . |
| 9 | For instance , erm erm a good illustration of this is Locke 's erm erm argument on the right of inheritance and erm in this case I am quoting from the first treatise of government the right a son has to be maintained , has to be maintained and provided with the necessary the necessities and conveniences of life out of his father 's stock gives him a right to succeed to his father 's property for his own good but this can give him no right to succeed also to the rule which his father had over other men . |