Example sentences of "[art] first true " in BNC.
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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 | 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 ) . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | Others , however , probably burrowed underground , surviving long enough to become the first true mammals . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | The first true day cream . |
15 | In November the same label issues The Damned 's ‘ New Rose ’ , hailed by many as the first true punk single . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | Wait until you can see the first true leaves between the two seed leaves . |
18 | Is 1992 going to be the first true Year of the Environment ? |
19 | She did so willingly : it was the first true gesture of kinship she had received since her mother 's death . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | The first true factory built in England was the silk mill built for John and Thomas Lombe at Derby in 1718–22 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | This was to be the basis of the first true industrial complex of modern Spain : the Catalan textile industry . |
26 | Built about 2600 BC , it was the first true pyramid . |
27 | That passage and the two meditative paragraphs which follow , constitute the high point of his adventure in the wilds so far , and the first true narration of the adventures of his mind among remoteness . |
28 | It may seem appropriate that since VR marks the first true merging of technology and imagination , it is sometimes hard to tell where current technology ends and its imagined future begins . |
29 | His experiments with pendulums , in association with his colleagues ( Sir ) ( James ) Alfred Ewing [ q.v. ] and Thomas Gray , led to the development of the first true seismograph for registering earthquakes . |
30 | In principle , just as society was first invented by man , it could also be perfected by man ; but in practice , under the influence of civilization , the intrinsic nobility of the first true men becomes corrupted . |