Example sentences of "the earliest know [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were the earliest known fatalities from AIDS , which was first recognized in 1981 . |
| 2 | In securing money for the abbey , Edward was helped by his position as a baron of the Exchequer and keeper from 1248 of the Exchequer seal , one of the earliest known chancellors of the Exchequer . |
| 3 | The earliest known plan of the Works ( August 1840 ) shows these streets . |
| 4 | The dinosaurs were the highest form of reptile , but in Owen 's time they were the earliest known members of the class — exactly the reverse of what would have been predicted by a theory of continuous development . |
| 5 | Yet the earliest known usage of ‘ South Saxons ’ does not appear until a royal charter of 689 names them and their king , Northelm , although the term may well have been in common use for some time before that . |
| 6 | The earliest known date of birth in the sample is in fact 1867 ( two cases ) . |
| 7 | Various scientists have pioneered contact lens research but a sketch by Leonardo da Vinci is widely believed to be the earliest known reference to the principle of a contact lens ( Fig. 3 ) . |
| 8 | THE EARLIEST known reference to this tradition is in the Stamford Mercury of October 1825 , at the time of Henry Fryer 's bequests for the foundation of a hospital , and was copied by later writers . |
| 9 | Jones ( 1985 , p. 1 ) refers to the earliest known reference in English legal records . |
| 10 | The idea of a sea-journeying goddess may be the origin of the earliest known version of the legend of Ariadne , according to which she was abducted and taken to the offshore island of Dia , where she died . |
| 11 | Nicholson , the earliest known pupil of the School , had proceeded to Caius College , Cambridge in 1581 , but graduated from St. John 's College in 1584–5 and took his MA in 1588 . |
| 12 | ABOVE Part of the huge 6th century AD mosaic found at Madaba in Jordan showing the earliest known view of Jerusalem . |
| 13 | A duty , payable in meal for having grain ground at the local mill known as multure is listed in the earliest known rental of Islay , which is dated 1626 . |
| 14 | The earliest known inhabitant of my village , who had tilled its fields , fished its river , delighted at the sunshine and huddled around his smoking fire in the winter damp , who shared all our human emotions , love , hate , joy , sorrow and pain was now no more than a box of prehistoric Crunchie bars dried almost to dust . |
| 15 | The earliest known example of the Roman bishop exercising jurisdiction is painful . |
| 16 | From Berwickshire and Bathgate he found rare specimens of at least four fossil land amphibians including the earliest known ancestor of frogs and salamanders ; millipedes and the earliest known harvestman spider . |
| 17 | In March , 1988 he uncovered the fossil remains of a 340 million year old lizard-like reptile which some experts believe could be the earliest known ancestor of dinosaurs . |
| 18 | This is the earliest known picture of the house , and shows it in the first half of the nineteenth century before the ground level at the front of the building was raised |