Example sentences of "the earliest " in BNC.
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1 | The earliest television broadcasts in the late 1930's featured black performers . |
2 | The earliest of these was in 1495BC , when frankincense trees were brought back from the Horn of Africa for Queen Hatshepsut . |
3 | This can give you the earliest possible warning , especially important if you live in a big house . |
4 | from the earliest years he was enveloped in a clash of ‘ mythologies ’ , to use his word , and grew up aware of their contributive , as well as their competitive , differences . |
5 | The earliest psychophysical observations demonstrated a correlation between the intensity of the physical stimulus and subjective reports of the intensity of the resultant experience . |
6 | For example : certain dances had to be composed with two sections only , such as the earliest minuets , which made the shape of a ‘ Z ’ , i.e. a diagonally straight line with an acute angle at each end . |
7 | Conventional gestures are valuable not only because they often appear in the epics themselves , but also because they are universally recognised as a means of communication in real life and have been used on the stage since the earliest days of the theatre . |
8 | It is n't because Stavrogin is not a decent man that the form of words has to be changed ; he also says ‘ I 'm bored ’ in the earliest draft of the letter , and this assertion goes completely . |
9 | The earliest form of submarine cable telegraphy : manual simplex working using a cable code key . |
10 | We might think that ‘ Naxos ’ in Cantos 2 , 24 , and 78 is the place of that name beneath Taormina , the site ( lately and partially excavated ) of the earliest Greek colony in Sicily , and thereafter the port whence the teams from all the Sicilian Greek cities made a ceremonial departure to compete in the Olympic Games ; but the Annotated Index is doubtless right to identify Naxos , on the contrary , with an island in the Aegean . |
11 | The abandonment yesterday of unilateral nuclear disarmament ( although not the intention of abandoning Britain 's nuclear deterrent at the earliest opportunity while other countries keep theirs ) was done in the same spirit of moralism which had gone into the banning of the Bomb . |
12 | The earliest completion date is 1994 . |
13 | The FIA tribunal wished to consider the matter further and a final decision is not expected until the end of the month at the earliest . |
14 | It may not be inclined to withdraw its golden share so the earliest shareholders would be able to capitalise on US interest in Jaguar is 1991 . |
15 | As honorary archivist for Lucas , the motor components group , he begged the company to let him be custodian of the earliest archives - including Lucas family albums — when , during company restructuring two years ago , the entire archive went to the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust . |
16 | Enlightened dry-fly anglers , too , have already been taking some tremendous catches with it and it will surely prove devastating for dapping , the earliest form of fly fishing , a method still used extensively in Ireland at certain times of year . |
17 | FERRANTI International shareholders meet today amid indications that there will be no solution to the company 's problems until Christmas at the earliest . |
18 | Traditional psychology from Freud onwards has held that what happens in the earliest years of childhood can affect our later perceptions of ourselves . |
19 | But by an overwhelming majority on a show of hands vote , party representatives demanded it reconsider the decision at the earliest possible opportunity . |
20 | The earliest music Hewitt-Jones acknowledged was a cello sonata written in 1951 . |
21 | But it is excellent this type of agreement will create the spirit of co-operation at the earliest possible age . ’ |
22 | If the Government was serious about regaining the initiative it has so wretchedly lost , the Prime Minister would sanction the Chancellor to announce this morning that Britain is seeking to join the ERM at the earliest practical moment . |
23 | The final twist was that Mr Kinnock was committed to negotiating away nuclear weapons at the earliest opportunity , Mr King added . |
24 | The increase was worse than expected and led to widespread predictions that base rates will not be cut before next spring at the earliest . |
25 | As the text of the gospels was dissected , there came indeed to appear layers or strata ; some bits looked earlier than others ; the documents were made up out of a weaving of stories and sayings circulating in the earliest Church and then put together by a single hand or more than one hand . |
26 | But what was suddenly seen as extraordinary was that the supernatural , the miraculous , and certain doctrines were just as present in the layers now believed to be the earliest as they were in the layers believed to be later . |
27 | He admired what the early Methodists did for the miners and how the earliest of the miners ' unions was Methodist in its inspiration . |
28 | At the earliest moment , local authorities should be required to submit a building programme for five or ten years to come , based upon a systematic plan to deal with slums and with acute overcrowding . |
29 | What appears to be one of the earliest sections of the manuscripts the section beginning ‘ So through the evening , through the violet air ’ ( dating from c.1914 ) contains an arresting image which would find its way into the final poem . |
30 | … the earliest agriculture must have grown up round the shrines of the Mother Goddess , which thus became social and economic centres , as well as holy places , and were the germs of the future cities . |