Example sentences of "only the first [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In a karate punch only the first two knuckles of the fist are used to strike the target area . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Up to 32 lines will be read and on each line only the first 20 characters are significant . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | So had every other beautiful girl , of course ; but Jane Ashton was now not only the first beautiful girl Killion had kissed good night , she was the first to kiss him in return , and kiss him as if she had a great deal to give as well as take . |
| 7 | Those whose entitlement is established , however , will find that not only the first few pounds of some other form of income they have may be disregarded , but the value of a house they own or occupy is not counted as part of their income . |
| 8 | The single-cell layer of the wall will lie in such a way that it is in contact with the mother 's blood supply , burrowing into the capillaries ( thread-like blood vessels ) to obtain nutrition via the mother 's blood — only the first few days ' nutrition comes from within the blastocyst itself . |
| 9 | The measure is not only the first full-scale law passed by the Supreme Soviet in its new incarnation as a professional legislature . |
| 10 | The first is probably the one copied by the BBC Sound Archive in 1935 ; at any rate , it comprises only the first three sentences . |
| 11 | ( Recall Keynes 's retention of the ‘ real wage equals marginal product ’ principle , so that only the first marginal condition failed to hold in the General Theory model . ) |