Sentence examples for earlier instance of the from inspiring English sources

But now the British Film Institute has discovered an even earlier instance of the televised interracial kiss.

The source for this is the Oxford English Dictionary, but of course there may be an earlier instance of the word which is yet to be discovered.

Earlier instances of the town board's resistance to his development projects caused Mr. Monaghan to fight back.

(The story also provides one of the earlier instances of the cubicle, when the lawyer who employs Bartleby erects a "high green folding screen" to create some minor space for his clerk).

My friend Jack, mentioned in some of the earlier instances of these pieces, has a house on the road that becomes the Trail of the Lonesome Pine.

Born in 1688, Drummond was an early instance of the tireless urban administrator; the Joseph Chamberlain or Robert Moses of his age.

It turns out to hold a fragment identical to the Masoretic text of the Hebrew Bible and, at nearly 2,000 years old, is the earliest instance of the text.

This is the earliest instance of the influence on Botticelli of contemporary Flemish landscape art, which is clearly visible in a number of his landscape settings.

The opening display includes the famous matelot sweater, backless and sexy on a jaunty male — an early instance of the Gaultier man as sex object.

This is an early instance of the tendency that, several centuries later, caused people to say, "Look in Johnson" or "Look in Webster".

When agricultural cultivation replaced simple gathering, the resulting increase in the supply of food freed some individuals to pursue crafts such as pottery making, textiles, and metallurgy, thus allowing for an early instance of the division of labour.