Example sentences of "[verb] only the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , assuming that the time elapsing between a subject 's decision to respond and the actual pressing of the button was about 75 milliseconds , subjects on average identified the target after having heard only the first 200 milliseconds of it . |
| 2 | I am not sure if Sir Henry Wood conducted it , for at that time he seemed to conduct only the first item of a concert , and then ceded the podium to Basil Cameron . |
| 3 | I shall consider only the first of these here , since theory has no independent insular life , and in an order only partly chronological . |
| 4 | The film covers only the first two-thirds of the book but is dramatically more satisfying because it is the story of Tom Joad 's political awakening . |
| 5 | Strachan who played only the first half engineered Leeds ' first goal with a 29th min cross for Noel Whelan to head in at the near post . |
| 6 | Often books will have a list of different places ; the convention is to choose only the first . |
| 7 | However , they went on to comment that the assumed riskless rate of 6 per cent in Part 1 of the results may have been an over estimate , as Part II shows only the first 2 factors to be significant while the fifth factor lost all explanatory power . |
| 8 | At first , he could utter only the first syllable of each name . |
| 9 | Here we give only the first part of Ohmann 's illustration : [ 8 ] the desk and the shelf above it on which rested the ledgers in which McCaslin recorded the slow outward trickle of food and supplies and equipment which returned each fall as cotton made and ginned and sold … |
| 10 | Bernstein , Kearsley & Zapas ( BKZ ) , however , consider only the first term of such an expansion and write ( Compare the form of this with the Boltzmann expression ( 3.5 ) . ) |
| 11 | In fact , although each volume was prepared under the ‘ haute direction de M. Camille Saint-Säens , the great man himself edited only the first five volumes exclusively the keyboard and chamber music and motets . |
| 12 | Once again , constraints on space make it necessary to address only the first stage of development , which occurs between the ages of 0 and about 18 months . |
| 13 | He disputed Lenin 's contention that imperialism constitutes the last stage of capitalism , arguing that in Latin America it represented only the first stage . |
| 14 | To mention only the first ‘ trope ’ , there are great differences between animals , in the manner of their birth , their way of life , their physical constitution , and so on . |
| 15 | It is always dangerous when the hon. Gentleman reads only the first half of a sentence . |
| 16 | She is modest , feeling she has taken only the first steps . |
| 17 | The first is probably the one copied by the BBC Sound Archive in 1935 ; at any rate , it comprises only the first three sentences . |
| 18 | He would have been wiser to have published only the first part of this book . |