Example sentences of "[art] first truly [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ECC , first displayed at the Paris show in early October , is the first truly convincing in-the-metal demonstration of how this ‘ hybrid ’ engine technology might shape the family car of the future . |
| 2 | The grandest and perhaps latest of them , the lower fragment from Delos , the first truly impressive piece of Greek sculpture , shows a beginning in knee and thigh and genitals ( and from the side in the powerful buttocks ) ; but it is not only weathering that makes , in the upper fragment , the relation of shoulders , breast and arms so wholly inorganic — it is the same in the little bronze fig. 13 . |
| 3 | Although it is generally supposed that the first truly mechanical escapement was of the verge-and-foliot type found in various church clocks throughout Europe , the earliest escapement of which we have definite detailed knowledge is that of the clock designed for the Abbey of St Albans c.1328 by Richard of Wallingford ( c.1292–1336 ) , the son of a blacksmith , who became Abbot in 1327 . |
| 4 | Stravinsky composed the first truly modern score for ballet with The Firebird ( see page 61 ) . |
| 5 | Levitt considers many Japanese companies as the first truly global marketers and contrasts their practices strongly with the approach taken by Hoover in marketing automatic washing machines in Europe . |
| 6 | It was the first truly successful undersea cable , continuing in business for the next 24 years . |
| 7 | Abstract Expressionism ebulliently asserted post-war individual freedom during the 1950s , as Action Painting or Tachism , to become the first truly international art form since the flintstones . |
| 8 | His station was an imitation of the Louvre , backed by the first truly great single-span train-shed built in the United States . |
| 9 | Then came the first truly affordable home computer with serious wordprocessing , the Amstrad PCW8256 . |
| 10 | Hence the creation in the Austrian provinces and Bohemia , beginning with the Allgemeine Schulordnung of 1774 ( though this was the work of an official , J. I. Felbiger , not of Joseph himself ) of the first truly universal system of education in European history . |
| 11 | The first truly ozone-friendly fridges have begun production in Germany , thanks to the rescue of a bankrupt firm by Greenpeace . |
| 12 | It was one of the first truly fireproof mills in the country . |
| 13 | THE FIRST truly realistic , not to say brutal , Hollywood look at WWII . |
| 14 | Ironically , ‘ Strangeways , Here We Come ’ was the first truly depressing record the band ever made . |
| 15 | The first truly mind-boggling band to come straight outta Ipswich , BLEACH are subversive , anti-artwank , cathartic and in-your-face with a FULL STOP . |
| 16 | Bleach are the first truly mind-boggling band ever to come from Ipswich , an archetypal Suffolk market town , once home of Bobby Robson and erm , that 's it . |
| 17 | The first full-page story told in pictures concerning the first truly British comic hero — a character called ‘ Ally Sloper ’ — appeared in Judy during 1867 . |
| 18 | He carried out exhaustive tests on the Sunbeam aero-engine , one of the first truly British engines . |
| 19 | It was from such traditional dance that Fokine , at the instigation of Diaghilev , devised the first truly national ballets by breaking away from the sterotyped steps . |
| 20 | The first truly indigenous press was almost certainly that of Egypt , which began to appear during the nineteenth century ; but it predated black Africa 's press by only a few years . |
| 21 | It was , in fact , one of the first truly fire-proof mills in the country . |