Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Published at the beginning of the century it comprises 10 volumes , although only the first eight have been translated into English . |
| 2 | This studied the texts by the techniques of literary and historical analysis , attempted to separate out historical material from legend or poetry , and even began to raise sensitive problems of authorship — as , for instance , whether all the first five books of the Old Testament were in fact written by Moses . |
| 3 | unc As only the first two can be plotted on the screen many systems only calculate and hold x and y . |
| 4 | The wavefront of mist rolled over the Marines in a billowing carpet , though once the first rolling wave was past , the mist was much thinner , merely causing a watery distortion in everyone 's vision . |
| 5 | While these oboists were all young musicians , Jacques Hotteterre would in 1675 have been a well established artist , at the mid-point in his career , with a name carrying the renown of the Hotteterres as performers and instrument makers ; he can now be identified as probably the first French oboist known to have held an official position at the English court . |