Example sentences of "[be] the first known " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are the first known lords of the manor of Cosmeston and gave their name to the village , Costentinstune ( the place of the Costentins ) . |
| 2 | Surprisingly this does not conform to Egyptian conventions for depicting Semites or Nubians and their dress suggests that they are the first known representation in Egyptian art of the Mycenaeans , Bronze Age Greeks . |
| 3 | They were the first known tamers of animals . |
| 4 | He had women not only in his church choir ( it is the first known instance ) but also in too close association with the life and pastoral work of the clergy . |
| 5 | A spokesman for the Sri Lankan government in London told Action that this is the first known attempt anywhere in the world to translate the values of the New World Information and Communication Order into a legal form on a national scale . |
| 6 | Although there have been several since , he is the first known Westerner to have been eaten by a Komodo Dragon . |
| 7 | He is described on his monument at Wollaton as ‘ architector and survayor unto the most worthy house of Wollaton , and diverse others of great account ’ ; this is the first known occasion on which he was called an architect , a term and function then still only in embryo in England . |
| 8 | Above all he was the first known troubadour and , as such , a key figure in the history of European literature . |