Example sentences of "the first recorded " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of this was so very different from the earlier period of Hebrew history when the first recorded occasion of a circumcision had as its central active character the woman Zipporah , and it puts in context the biblical passage , written at the time of the exile , with which this essay opened : Jerusalem , allegorized as a female in needy relation to her Lord and depicted as cleansed of her blood by the intervention of a male deity . |
| 2 | But Mr Russell Mansford , a London Ambulance Service controller , said the first recorded request was at 10.30pm . |
| 3 | The first recorded meeting was termed a meeting of ‘ bondholders ’ although no constitution even agreeing to bondholders as yet existed . |
| 4 | In 1956 the first recorded questioning of the bondholders ' status occurs , paradoxically as the interest payments on bonds are resumed . |
| 5 | In 1836 a Professor James Forbes made the first recorded ascent of Sgurr nan Gillean with Duncan MacIntyre , a local forester , as guide . |
| 6 | The first recorded example of this ‘ position specificity ’ was noted in Stigmatomyces baeri , found on house flies . |
| 7 | It has reached that level in half a century , for 50 years ago today the experiment was begun which led to the first recorded observation of this polymer . |
| 8 | The first recorded death of a deaf person in a railway accident occurred in Cardiff in June 1875 when a 60 years old Irish visitor , John Thomas Morris , was struck by a train whilst walking along the tracks . |
| 9 | The concept of a fixed transport link between Britain and France has exercised the minds of engineers , businessmen and politicians for over 250 years , and the first recorded scheme was put forward by physician and geologist Nicolas Desmarets in 1751 . |
| 10 | Thus , we have chemical control — albeit naturally derived — of a chemical contaminant not a biological one , and probably the first recorded instance . |
| 11 | The first recorded game took place as far back as 1851 with a match between Oporton and Lisbon . |
| 12 | Mr Punch is the first recorded victim of chatricide . |
| 13 | Domitian 's decree was the first recorded attempt to reduce a European winelake . |
| 14 | Their debut album — apart from containing the remarkable ‘ Bustin' Out ’ , sung by Labelle 's Nona Hendryx — also features Chic 's Nile Rodgers and Tony Thompson and the first recorded appearance of Whitney Houston . |
| 15 | The first recorded person trading as an undertaker per se is William Boyce , who opened a shop in c.1675 ‘ at ye WHIGHT HART & COFFIN , in ye Grate Ould Bayley , near Newgeat ’ . |
| 16 | Although this is the first recorded instance of a private undertaker being used by the royal household it is possible that they had been previously involved in some small way in royal funerals , for it is doubtful that the College of Arms provided coffins and it would seem probable that they contracted this out to the trade , to people such as William Russell — indeed , could it have been Russell who provided the coffin for Queen Mary in late December 1694 ? |
| 17 | 4 The first recorded date in history , which maybe the British Domesday Book of 1086 , or the Crusader Lists , or possibly the 16th century Huguenot register . |
| 18 | These are the first recorded works by Lawrence since the final moments of Felt over two years ago . |
| 19 | Train journeys to cold suburbs and the first recorded attempt at love-making — ending in fear of eternal damnation as he dozed off in front of the fire afterwards and his socks began to smoulder . |
| 20 | The first recorded observations of Castle Drachenfels , the accursed house of hell , were brought to us by Oskar Lefebvre and Jean-Pierre Lafontaine of the city of Quenelles in the year 184 ( Imperial Calendar ) . |
| 21 | The first recorded aquarium introduction was in 1914 but the fish was first described for science in 1831 by Cuvier and Valenciennes . |
| 22 | This was the first recorded occasion on which one member of the commons was chosen to act as a spokesman for them all . |
| 23 | Gloucester immediately recognized the threat posed to his own position by Woodville and his fleet , and the first recorded actions of the new regime include an overhaul of the officials in strategically important castles around the Solent . |
| 24 | It was not until 1924 that he turned to the measurement of human electrical potentials , and delayed publication until 1929 , when the first recorded electro-encephalogram ( of his young son ) appeared in Archiv Forschung Psychiatrie . |
| 25 | All these obligations were accounted for in the first recorded reference to the properties in the Company 's books on 19th April 1496 together with the £10 for John Randall the school 's first known Master , and the £4 6 8d to John Bockley , the priest at Longdendale . |
| 26 | The name of the first recorded Master of the school in Stockport is John Randall . |
| 27 | The greatest ‘ catch ’ of all is the first recorded breeding in Britain of the little bittern . |
| 28 | Muscat , the first recorded grape variety in Alsace , appears to have no family links with the aromatic Gewürztraminer , although there are certainly taste associations . |
| 29 | But it is sometimes forgotten that as far back as 1909 he built his own aeroplane in which he then made the first recorded flight over Ireland . |
| 30 | The first recorded clocking-in system was introduced by Wedgwood at Etruria , backed by a stiff fine of 2s ( 10p ) for any worker coming late . |