Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] from the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 " . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Admiralty had from the first a ‘ prize ’ jurisdiction , i.e. a jurisdiction to determine all questions as to the ownership of ships and goods captured at sea by a belligerent . |
| 4 | The arrow points from the first node a of the pair ( a , b ) towards the second , b . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In fact patriarchy , class , and hierarchy all presupposed a law of gender difference which was at once divinely , naturally , and socially laid down , the law descending from the first through the second to the third . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | All this suspicion arose from the first nylon yarn that appeared on the market . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | For pre-industrial society , youth was a long transition period lasting from the first signs of independence of the young child to marriage . |
| 11 | Accident reports from the first decade indicate that some did on the Great Northern Coalfield , but hardly any did so by 1780 . |
| 12 | The signalling dates from the First World War and will cost £400 000 to replace . |
| 13 | The second word is the noun formed from the first word , the verb . |
| 14 | FIG. 2 Two example displays from the first experiment . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | However , the contractual commitment stems from the first of those calls on the basis that it is followed up by the time agreed . |
| 18 | We will make houses which meet high standards of energy efficiency exempt from the first £1000 of stamp duty when they are sold . |
| 19 | The lift operates from the first floor . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | On the other hand Atrakhasis has man toiling from the first , has no single " Adam " , no separate making of woman , no Eden , and no Fall — in fact no moral teaching at all . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The overall median hospital stay from the first stage of percutaneous cholecystolithotomy was three days ( range one to 33 ) . |
| 25 | The median hospital stay from the first stage in patients with acute complications was 12 days ( range three to 33 ) . |
| 26 | The residence of the pope in an ancient imperial city had from the first been fragile . |
| 27 | The street is closed by the Black Tower , part of the castle 's fortification system dating from the first half of the 12C . |
| 28 | This particular guitar comes from the first phase of the Les Paul Custom , the single-coil era of 1954 to 1957 . |
| 29 | The collection totals approximately 150 items comprising an historical survey of first-class material ranging from the first to the nineteenth century AD . |