Example sentences of "[art] first [noun sg] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brabham , the quiet , shy Australian , who was the first man from the Antipodes to break into Grand Prix racing , retired from driving in 1970 with 123 Formula One Grand Prix starts to his credit and 14 victories . |
| 2 | A good performance in later years means the sacrifice of bloom in the first year from planting . |
| 3 | The leader then calls for items , and the first person from one of the teams brings the article and places it on the chair . |
| 4 | The first person from each team that calls out the answer gets a point for his or her team . |
| 5 | A foreign office contact once described in awe-struck terms how , when an African government changes , the first person from Britain to meet the new ruler is often not our ambassador , but Tiny Rowland . |
| 6 | Merchanting er , is the buying and selling of materials not the production of materials , and erm , I was probably the first person from this area , in the leather trade , to go to China and we started to do quite a large business with China , so that immediately I was on my own , the first big operation I took was to go to China and make very substantial purchases of pigskin leather . |
| 7 | WILL SUTHERLAND , skipper of one of the yachts in the British Steel Challenge round-the-world race , has resigned after the first leg from Southampton to Rio de Janeiro for personal reasons . |
| 8 | The only way up to the first floor from inside the works was via a ladder , which had started life as one of The Salisbury Volunteer Fire Brigade escapes , probably acquired by Mr. Farr during his service as a fireman in the early years of the century . |
| 9 | Yeah , just saying that when we move the erm the first aid room to the , to the first floor from House . |
| 10 | Col Anthony Gylby was the first lessee from 1668 , he was Lieutenant of Hull Fort and an ardent Cavalier who died under something of a cloud accused of misappropriation of the fort 's materials for use on his solitary island mansion . |
| 11 | We are only just realising that this is the first calling from which all else must flow . |
| 12 | The price alterations are a study in themselves , an example being the First Return from Craven Arms to Eaton , the original fare perhaps dating from the last century , crossed out and altered by some unfortunate clerk , by gas light , with a fine nib pen and a bottle of railway ink. , round about 1915 . |
| 13 | The first burst from his machine-gun hammered through Dangerfield 's weary back and smashed his instrument panel . |
| 14 | Marion and her son had an agreeable high tea of poached eggs on toast , tea and cakes , went for a little walk along Old Compton Street and bought some gorgonzola and a pound of cherries before returning to the theatre for the evening show ; he was allowed to watch the first act from the wings before making his way back to Putney on his own . |
| 15 | This is clearly brought out by Maggi Darling , who has been successful in classifying the wares of different legions in the first century from the excavations at Gloucester , Usk and Wroxeter , where , in all three cases , there is a significant absence of black burnished wares . |
| 16 | Izanagi possessed a magical jewelled spear and this he flung into the endless water , creating the first land-mass from its point . |
| 17 | One of these was the dreadful Myndie Snake , the servant of Pundijl , who was the spirit ancestor of man , having created the first mortal from clay . |
| 18 | In effect this represented the first retreat from Marxism 's prohibition on private ownership of the means of production since the abandonment in 1928 of Lenin 's New Economic Policy ( NEP ) . |
| 19 | In the all ticket days you could often wait for the first coach from Leeds to turn up and they would have 20+ tickets for us poor souls who could nt get one ! ! |
| 20 | In the all ticket days you could often wait for the first coach from Leeds to turn up and they would have 20+ tickets for us poor souls who could nt get one ! ! |
| 21 | Maude was the first minister from a European Community ( EC ) country to visit China since the Tiananmen Square massacre in June 1989 . |
| 22 | We set off , stopped at random , pottered around , changed our plans , and got the first crossing from a port we had n't arrived at . |
| 23 | An infant uses the mouth as the first organ from which pleasure can be derived , through sucking at the breast and imbibing the warm milk . |
| 24 | The first tune from the beginning bar one is repeated how much lower ? |
| 25 | In a package to be put before the clubs , the League 's governing body are proposing to increase the First Division from 14 to 16 teams . |
| 26 | If Zuwaya disliked policemen as a category , and took pride in not being related to any , that was in part because in the past ordinary people got their main experience of corruption and venality in the first instance from the police , and that reputation stuck ; and partly also because they recognized that policemen had divided loyalties and could not be trusted to be loyal exclusively to their kinsmen . |
| 27 | In Scotland and Wales there is the same pressure for equal treatment but it comes in the first instance from MPs who will pounce on any discrepancies and ask why England ( or Scotland and Wales ) is receiving special treatment . |
| 28 | Information about the activities to be included will be obtained in the first instance from a synthesis of existing published material which will be used to summarise these firms on the basis of a number of standard characteristics . |
| 29 | To generate all candidate strings , begin from the start node of the graph ( * ) , take the first route from it ( i.e. the first of the forward pointers ) , and note the letter at the node reached as the first letter of the candidate string . |
| 30 | Again take the first route from this node , noting the letter at this next node as the second letter in the candidate string . |