Example sentences of "from the [noun sg] [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The message from the Chief came first . |
| 2 | The text is entered directly from the keyboard having first selected its position between the staves with the mouse pointer . |
| 3 | The name ‘ flag ’ may originate from the plant having first been used as a heraldic device by Clovis , king of the Franks in the 5th century . |
| 4 | An order of report interpretation was considered an insufficient explanation by Bryden ( 1967 ) , who continued to find a right ear advantage even when analysing only responses given from the ear reported first , but such an explanation continues to surface from time to time ( e.g. Friedes , 1977 ) . |
| 5 | It was inevitable — and should have been obvious to the kinds of forecasting brains that IBM could afford — that the open systems movement would spread up from the desktop to infect first the minicomputer world and then the mainframe . |