Example sentences of "it [was/were] from the first " in BNC.

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1 But it was from the first emphasised that a priesthood of succession should be established through Aaron , Moses ' brother .
2 When he spoke , it was from the first Tory bench below the gangway , the place he used as a backbencher before his ministerial days , in his youth as the Chingford Skinhead .
3 It was from the first century B.C. onwards that the vast white marble quarries at Carrara were developed and that quantities of Greek marble were shipped to Italy from Hymettus and Pentelicus .
4 It was from the first bound up with the establishment of a foreign ministry archive .
5 It was from the first of December for the address although they were actually
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