Example sentences of "[adv] from the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women are so utterly used to working with their own bodies : we are trained to do so from the first time we wear pink-for-a-girl , and a concentration upon the significations of our physicality is encouraged to a far greater extent than is the case with boys and men . |
| 2 | Let us put now a sheet of opposite charge a distance d away from the first sheet ( fig. 2.14 ) . |
| 3 | Today 's bright and open classrooms with their informal furniture seem light years away from the first school in which I taught . |
| 4 | Hankin rates the Bishop Auckland youngster but feels he will benefit from a spell away from the first team . |
| 5 | There is decreased ability to stay away from the first use in any day of the substance or process of addiction . |
| 6 | You can almost tell just from the first time they 're doing their marking . |
| 7 | Project Blaenau , as the F.R. called it , grew rapidly from the first meeting of the three-man ‘ Communications and Action Panel ’ in early 1980 and in the two years leading up to the opening , over 70 mini projects were designed and constructed by a combination of volunteers and paid staff . |
| 8 | Every teacher probably derives more from the first teacher with whom he works than any other and I have no doubt in my mind that Basil was by far the most influential person in my first years as a teacher . |
| 9 | All histological material , both from the first cystoscopy and the second cystoscopy , was sent both to the local pathologist and then representative sections sent to the reference pathologist . |
| 10 | There are two other necessary ingredients , which will normally arise automatically from the first ingredient , self-replication itself . |
| 11 | I could see this condition coming upon me relentlessly from the first moment Dana cast his eyes upon me : he was another who knew how to use the power of the evil eye , almost casually , to enchant total strangers . |
| 12 | Right from the first day I worked hard , no longer rested on my oars and as a result topped the class list . |
| 13 | Right from the first day of term the two of them started wandering round together during the morning-break and in the lunch-hour . |
| 14 | She showed me the marks on the back of her knuckles and her wrist where that bitch had walloped her with a rod of some sort , right from the first day . ’ |
| 15 | In fact , right from the first moment we arrived back in London she 's done her best to make my life absolute hell ! ’ |
| 16 | Right from the first evening of video recording , when we realised that BSL ( or deaf people 's signing ) was not only a manual language , because of its animated involvement of the deaf person , it became clear that the key to understanding the learning task for deaf people lies in the examination of the language itself . |
| 17 | The Christian theme occurs right from the first line with the word ‘ ministry ’ and the hidden word ‘ spirit ’ . |
| 18 | Why was it then that , even from the first moment , the thought of Lorrimer in his sister 's bed had been intolerable . |
| 19 | We really felt at home here from the first time we came . |
| 20 | Very little blood , surely from the first blow that felled its victim through hood and all . |
| 21 | He had wanted her almost from the first moment , and he had loved her for nearly as long . |
| 22 | ‘ This is something I should have done days ago ; something I 've wanted to do almost from the first moment we met , yet I 've fought against it every step of the way , just as you have . |
| 23 | Pam was there from the beginning , or at least from the first day of school . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Apart from the first item , which is solely concerned with whether the whole sentence conforms to the rules of the adult grammar , each grammatical feature is assigned a score which reflects its developmental complexity . |
| 26 | Arsenal have had also apart from the first game , where I doubt coventry went looking to attack , rather than counter attack . |
| 27 | Apart from the first thing of people coming in and bastardising your work , I think to then actually sell that as our work — it 's not only immoral against us , but I think it 's conning members of the public too . ’ |
| 28 | Then she brought him her account book , which she had kept faithfully from the first day of opening her house , and showed him the state of things . |