Example sentences of "first true " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Shot entirely on location in South Central LA , the film aims to give the first true picture of what life is like in the ‘ LA Hood ’ . |
| 2 | The first true holder of the post , Lord Russell , had been ordered by the privy council to raise his troops to put down a West Country revolt against the prayer book . |
| 3 | Ramapithecus lasted for about 7 million years and may have then given rise to the first true hominid , Australopithecus , which has a similar dental structure . |
| 4 | The date 1830 was chosen because it was during that year that the first true naturalist wrote . |
| 5 | But even during the Carboniferous the first true reptiles had evolved , and this was the group that was to make itself wholly independent of the water . |
| 6 | The first true prep schools were started in the nineteenth century , in the confused wake of the great public schools . |
| 7 | His Confessions , written not long before the Fall of Rome , was an even more original form of literature than Rousseau 's written more than a thousand years later , for it was the first true autobiography . |
| 8 | The Italians , and the Dutch , surprisingly , were the first true landscape painters , the Italian countryside always their source of inspiration . |
| 9 | It was the world 's first true robot . |
| 10 | The concept was translated into practical terms with such urgency that the first true thermonuclear device ( MIKE ) was exploded on 1 November , 1952 , and gave a yield of 10 megatonnes ( about 1000 times as great as the bombs dropped on Japan ) . |
| 11 | Although railed tramways had been in use in various parts of the country from the middle of the 18th century , generally in connection with coal mines , the first true railway in Scotland was the line from Kilmarnock to Troon . |
| 12 | Others , however , probably burrowed underground , surviving long enough to become the first true mammals . |
| 13 | The Wailers were the first true self-contained live act in reggae not dependent on any pick-up members and capable of blowing away any other band in the world . |
| 14 | Now , at last , we come to your first true circuit . |
| 15 | The silver coinage of the late seventh century took over the developing role of gold coin and may be the first true cash in England for commercial transactions . |
| 16 | The first true day cream . |
| 17 | Encouraged by success in Germany , work was started in 1937 to build Britain 's first true helicopter . |
| 18 | In November the same label issues The Damned 's ‘ New Rose ’ , hailed by many as the first true punk single . |
| 19 | Not only do the letters and inventories of Vollard , Durand-Ruel and Hébrard greatly illuminate the history of the casts , but the individual entries on the sculptures constitute the first true catalogue of these works . |
| 20 | Wait until you can see the first true leaves between the two seed leaves . |
| 21 | Is 1992 going to be the first true Year of the Environment ? |
| 22 | Infancy and early childhood are the time of basic sexual development ; pre-puberty — despite the " latency " concept — is the phase of accommodation to social thinking and relationships , and of first establishment of gender identity ; adolescence itself is marked by an upsurge of sexual feeling , establishment of sexual identity and — perhaps to an increasing extent — first true sexual experience . |
| 23 | She did so willingly : it was the first true gesture of kinship she had received since her mother 's death . |
| 24 | The first true Ferrari was seen at Piacenza in 1947 and by the time the World Championship was introduced in 1950 , Ferraris were soon gaining a reputation for being a reliable car . |
| 25 | We gazed long and hard but could not spot the unwelcoming creature , our first true upland species . |
| 26 | The first true factory built in England was the silk mill built for John and Thomas Lombe at Derby in 1718–22 . |
| 27 | Stones were also set up along the Great North Road in 1708 , but the first true milestone to be set up in Britain since Roman times was that at Trumpington , just outside Cambridge , in 1727 , where it is still to be seen . |
| 28 | The first true canal , with locks and a towpath , was that constructed by the municipal authorities of Exeter between 1564 and 1567 to allow barges to pass around the weirs on the river and to reach the city . |
| 29 | One was Mergenthaler 's Linotype , which made it possible to produce a newspaper quickly and in large volume ; the other was a social innovation , modern advertising , invented by the first true newspaper publishers , Adolph Ochs of the New York Times , Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World , and William Randolph Hearst . |
| 30 | This was to be the basis of the first true industrial complex of modern Spain : the Catalan textile industry . |