Example sentences of "the first examples [prep] " in BNC.

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1 One of the first examples to be discovered in animals was the opening of milk bottles in Britain by great tits , blue tits and coal tits .
2 The manufacture of chemicals such as lactic acid and citric acid during the first world war were probably the first examples to be labelled with the term ‘ biotechnology ’ .
3 Unfortunately for the British Museum , the first examples of that reality experienced by the viewer on leaving the exhibition are the rooms containing its Roman collection .
4 One of the first examples of a curvilinear glasshouse , it stands as a reminder of bygone eras in Belfast 's history .
5 Collectors are naturally anxious to secure , if they can , the first examples of the various media used for illustration .
6 RBP , BLG ( which also binds retinol and other hydrophobic ligands ) , insecticyanin and bilin-binding protein , the first examples of known 3-dimensional structure , all comprise similar cup-shaped antiparallel β -barrel frameworks with successive +1 topology , formed from strands linked by loops that differ between the proteins .
7 In contrast to the comments ( above ) on pavements with four pairs of interlaced squares , this mosaic can be considered one of the first examples of a distinctive saltire arrangement : an arrangement which has pelta-urns ( with bases facing away from the central roundel ) on each arm .
8 These were created or taken over by the state at various times since the first examples under the 1906–14 Liberal Government , but the largest group of Nationalization Acts covering coal , road and rail services , gas , electricity and iron and steel came under the 1945 — 51 Labour Government .
9 The sirens are cast solid , like Geometric bronzes , but the griffin-heads are the first examples in Greece of hollow-casting , another thing now learnt from the East of immense importance for Greek art ( below , pp. 50f . ) .
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