Example sentences of "from [noun prp] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | America 's Patriot anti-missile batteries , hastily airlifted to Israel from Germany after the first two Scud attacks , failed to stop a third attack but worked well the following night . |
| 2 | In Ephesos is the modest-sized Temple of Hadrian which displays the Mesopotamian tradition of an arched lintel , a device introduced from Syria in the first century ( 133 ) . |
| 3 | In general the news from Washington by the first half of 1945 was moderately reassuring . |
| 4 | Such Persian names survive in local nomenclature till Roman times : the priests of Artemis at Ephesus went on being called Megabyxoi for centuries after 330 ; or we might compare the place-name Maibozani , recently attested ( JRS , 1975 , p. 65 , line 10 , with p. 73 : a Roman inscription from Ephesus of the first century AD ) . |
| 5 | New Beginnings : From Schleiermacher to the First World War |
| 6 | ‘ You 're a liar and a hypocrite , that you 're also Garry 's discarded lover does n't absolve you from the guilt of taking him from Berenice in the first place . ’ |
| 7 | He pulled off a tremendous save from Sukristovas in the first half and denied the same player in the second . |
| 8 | Leeds struggled to overcome Hull KR 13–4 despite a try from Hanley and two goals from Gallagher in the first 13 minutes . |
| 9 | Don and Steven made the most accurate estimates of how long it would take Courtaulds InterSpray , the Group 's entry in the race , to reach Rio de Janeiro from Southampton on the first leg . |
| 10 | One train , the 15.4 hrs from Quainton and the 16.15 hrs from Aylesbury on Sunday was cancelled on Sunday for several reasons while the gauging run for King Edward was only carried out an hour prior to departure from Aylesbury of the first ACE . |
| 11 | Simon Vinkenoog , the founder of Sigma Nederland provided a piece from Amsterdam for the first issue on the then prominent Provos , the proto-Green anarchists who had just won seats on that city 's council . |
| 12 | Lodge was recently amused by the arrival from America of the first critical monograph about him . |
| 13 | He was glad of the distraction , having earlier received a wire from Hilary who , at the last minute and in spite of cross-my-heart-and-hope-to-die promises , found it impossible , after all , to come down from London for the first night of Peter Pan . |
| 14 | Tony Cozier reports from Barbados on the first ever Test match between West Indies and South Africa . |