Example sentences of "written in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have loved Jacob , ’ says the God of Malachi ( 1.2–3 ; Malachi was probably written in the first half of the fifth century BCE ) , ‘ but I have hated Esau . ’ |
| 2 | The Green Book claims universality , and so names no names ; but it is also a book written in the first instance for Libyans , to encourage them to create popular democracy . |
| 3 | He was Jacob Hart , 12 , who was responsible for Hook , Stephen Spielberg 's £65 million modern Peter Pan story , being written in the first place . |
| 4 | In many ways , his books , written in the first three decades of the last century , were before their time . |
| 5 | Gone were the carefree , witty passages written in the first person , the conversational style , the caustic bitter comments . |
| 6 | I recalled that in the New Testament , in the life of Jesus as written in the first four books , there were many psychic happenings . |
| 7 | If the Gospel was written by the John Mark who is mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles , then it must have been written in the first generation of the Christian Church , between 35 and 75 AD . |
| 8 | But all the patients studied had asthma written in the first part of the death certificate and had been entered into the local statistics as asthma deaths . |
| 9 | These maxims , many of them reflecting nothing more than common sense , and taken from the recorded experience of the past , were to be found mainly in two works : the Facta et dicta memorabilia of Valerius Maximus , written in the first century AD , and the Stratagemata of Frontinus , composed in the same century by a man who had been for a short while Roman governor of Britain . |
| 10 | ‘ The Friends ’ is written in the first person narrative , it is rather clear and direct , but it too later develops , conveying the emotions of an ardent adolescent growing up into womanhood . |