Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] from the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , as we shall see , this evidence has proved largely illusory , but the presentation of the gens stage as a real historical one presents Engels right from the first with the theoretical difficulties which were to plague Marxist anthropology afterwards . |
| 2 | Interestingly enough , broadside probably derives from the naval tactic of firing all the guns from one side of a ship of war at once , without giving the recipient the necessity of awaiting installments Such sheets are of historic importance , since they date back to the sixteenth century , when popular poems and ballads were issued in this form ; and royal and official proclamations took to the streets in this guise almost from the first days of printing . |
| 3 | We really felt at home here from the first time we came . |
| 4 | GRID is a move away from the first , but not the second . |
| 5 | Today 's bright and open classrooms with their informal furniture seem light years away from the first school in which I taught . |
| 6 | Hankin rates the Bishop Auckland youngster but feels he will benefit from a spell away from the first team . |
| 7 | I would n't say there was much between the two teams apart from the first half here this afternoon when United , I have n't seen United dominate a side so much for a very long time , and really , I mean you were here Peter , three or four nil at half time would not have been a bad reflection on United 's performance in any way at all . |
| 8 | The modern practice of numbering the days of the month consecutively from the first to the last came to the West from Syria and Egypt in the second half of the sixth century . |
| 9 | There is an in-frame stop codon upstream from the first AUG codon of the open reading frame and this start site is conserved in the human ( 11 ) and mouse ( 22 ) homologs . |
| 10 | Let us put now a sheet of opposite charge a distance d away from the first sheet ( fig. 2.14 ) . |