Example sentences of "[vb -s] from the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The superstition that the third light from a match brings bad luck apparently originates from the first world war , when German soldiers in the opposite trench would notice the first light , take aim at the second and fire at the third . |
| 3 | In particular , examples have been found of periodic behaviour occurring at higher r than chaotic for the same values of b and P. Changes are not necessarily in the direction of greater randomness the further one goes from the first instability of steady solutions . |
| 4 | The arrow points from the first node a of the pair ( a , b ) towards the second , b . |
| 5 | FIG. 2 Two example displays from the first experiment . |
| 6 | It follows from the First Premise introduced at the beginning of this chapter , that it must be an article of belief in the Created God that this first pre-life period in the story of the universe made no contribution to the creation of the God which was to be born , as was mankind , out of the life to come , except that it may have been the source of the basic origin of life . |
| 7 | The lift operates from the first floor . |
| 8 | The signalling dates from the First World War and will cost £400 000 to replace . |
| 9 | This particular guitar comes from the first phase of the Les Paul Custom , the single-coil era of 1954 to 1957 . |
| 10 | Accident reports from the first decade indicate that some did on the Great Northern Coalfield , but hardly any did so by 1780 . |