Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] from [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | We really felt at home here from the first time we came . |
| 3 | GRID is a move away from the first , but not the second . |
| 4 | Hankin rates the Bishop Auckland youngster but feels he will benefit from a spell away from the first team . |
| 5 | The movement from the initial grandly imperative wish for a creative act , reviving an older myth , to the final mundane narrative of the beginning of another , much less magnificent revival of potential creativity promised by ‘ sal volatile/ And a glass of brandy neat ’ is a movement away from a first situation ( that of Ariadne on Naxos ) which we never see in itself ; the painting conjured up and the other parallels to this first situation are interpretations not just of each other , but also of that first situation which , because a ‘ myth ’ and so subject to constant reinterpretation , may never have happened in any of the ways presented , if indeed it ever took place at all . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |