Example sentences of "from [art] first [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1 In the late 1520s and 1530s , Henry VIII had embarked on a spectacular , even murderous matrimonial career in an attempt to save his kingdom from the first part of that curse .
2 The inference to be drawn from the first part of his letter is that once Roman Catholics are in a voting majority they will automatically vote for a United Ireland .
3 The first 5 portfolios ( P 1 to P 5 ) use the data from the first part of Table 6.6(a) .
4 During routine upper gastrointestinal endoscopy one biopsy was taken for hostological examination from the antral mucosa 2 cm from the pylorus and one from the first part of the duodenum on the opposite wall to the area of ulceration .
5 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 .
6 From the first day of competition onwards there was the complicated process of conquering the logistics of the Stadio Olimpico complex .
7 From the first day of the war the security forces went in fear of the unseen enemy : agents and provocateurs smuggled into the country under the guise of fugitives from Nazi persecution .
8 Pam was there from the beginning , or at least from the first day of school .
9 Right from the first day of term the two of them started wandering round together during the morning-break and in the lunch-hour .
10 This policy is currently in question because of the high incidence of cross addiction to these substances but there is still a long way to go before Treatment Centres generally recommend abstinence from all these substances from the first day of recovery .
11 A meeting of a licensing board can not be adjourned beyond the period of one month from the first day of the meeting .
12 The most important feature is the reservoir of larvae in the tissues of the cow , with subsequent milk-borne transmission ensuring that calves are exposed to infection from the first day of life .
13 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 .
14 But they do make sociolinguistic assumptions : in context it is clear that they also assume the early development of a socially elite variety , and we can see from the first sentence of the quotation that ‘ carefulness ’ is probably also involved .
15 In this chapter , the commentators began in classic style by putting up their metaphorical feet , pulling the ring from the first can of Heineken , and settling down to enjoy a good , oldfashioned massacre .
16 Nikola ( Figure 4.3 ) is a straightforward case of a transfer from the first year of one degree course direct into the second year of another .
17 He was the largest Mbuna I had ever owned , a wild-caught fish measuring a good six inches and one of a ‘ pair ’ which arrived at my local shop from the first importation of the species into the UK .
18 It was all a far cry from the first ascent of Everest 40 years ago , news of which took three days to reach London — on Coronation Day .
19 His assertion that the problem remains and is handed down from the first generation of Homo sapiens to the present one in the institutions of religion and art seems to be , prima facie , very plausible .
20 Noticeably , however , both sequences are part of the actional frame , and there is a strong sense of a temporal progression from the first element of the pair to the second .
21 The first year of a king ran from the day of his accession in one calendar year to the eve of the anniversary of that accession in the following , his second from the first anniversary of his accession to the eve of his second , and so on .
22 Some galleries project from the first floor of the house ; others are on barn buildings above the yard .
23 Where the gallery projects from the first floor of the house , the wool room was in the house on the first floor .
24 A flight of stone steps gives access and a door from the first floor of the inn has been added .
25 Access is by a stone stair and from the first floor of the adjoining building , where there is a door .
26 Opposite the house , watching from the first floor of Mrs Aldiss 's — the Stones ' eccentric , over-imaginative neighbour — a CI5 agent called Monteith was a shadowy shape behind net curtaining .
27 A smell of new shoes from another workshop wafted around him as he looked up at the old , stopped clock jutting out , two-faced , over the pavement from the first floor of the workshop , hands frozen at twenty-past-two ( he glanced at his watch ; it was actually 3:49 ) .
28 Silence of the Lambs star Anthony Hopkins performed the ceremony from the first floor of the Waterford Wedgwood shop in Regent Street , filmed by TV crews from the UK , Canada , Australia and the USA .
29 For instance , erm erm a good illustration of this is Locke 's erm erm argument on the right of inheritance and erm in this case I am quoting from the first treatise of government the right a son has to be maintained , has to be maintained and provided with the necessary the necessities and conveniences of life out of his father 's stock gives him a right to succeed to his father 's property for his own good but this can give him no right to succeed also to the rule which his father had over other men .
30 Patient years of observation were measured from the first date of a prescription up to the patient 's death or 31 October 1990 .
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