Example sentences of "earliest [noun] was [art] " in BNC.

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1 In Manchester one of the earliest clubs was the Manchester YMCA Rambling Club , dating from 1880 .
2 One of his earliest pieces was a Western narrative which attempted to avoid the formulaic patterning of Louis L'Amour 's novels through parody .
3 Its earliest inspiration was a young man born in a village on the banks of the Nile about 250 AD .
4 One of the earliest collaborators was the conductor Leopold Stokowski , who happily agreed to experiments to divide the Philadelphia Orchestra into individually miked sections for increased clarity , presumably in search of something more like the clarity he perceived from the conductor 's rostrum ( 14 ) .
5 Among the new government 's earliest measures was the introduction in April 1991 of the Sharia bill , which was aimed at the creation of an " Islamic welfare state " , passed in May by the National Assembly .
6 Of the first of these developments one of the earliest examples was the publication in Sweden from 1824 onwards of a list of the country 's consuls and vice-consuls .
7 One of the earliest examples was the Glasgow City Improvement Trust established under a local act of parliament in 1866 .
8 The earliest form was the one-sided station , in which arrival and departure took place on the same side .
9 One of its earliest expressions was the great Congreso Sudamericano de Derecho Internacional Privado held in Montevideo in 1888–89 .
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