Example sentences of "only the first [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only the first interpretation is successfully conveyed in the French version of the leaflet ( Regardez-les . |
| 2 | Only the first construction is possible in English . |
| 3 | In the quotation above only the first sense is intended by the author — the full potential of a word is never actualized entirely in any one of its uses . |
| 4 | In some patients ( e.g. Coltheart et al. , 1983 ) , only the first pattern is seen , so that the way a printed word is comprehended is via pronunciation ; in others ( e.g. Kay and Patterson , 1983 ) one does see examples where a word is read aloud wrongly but comprehended correctly . |
| 5 | For the 108 women with both conditions , only the first episode was counted . |