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‘An instance can be recorded.’

[⟨det instance.n⟩ recorded.a]

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The first recorded instance of the name occurred in 1157 when Rudolph zu Eltz was mentioned as witness to the donation of a property deed by Emperor Fredrick I Barbarossa.
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Between the two world wars, there were no recorded instance of football hooliganism, (though for example Millwall’s ground was reportedly closed in 1920, 1934 and 1950 after crowd disturbances) but it started attracting widespread media attention in the late 1950s due to its re – emergence in Latin America.
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This is the first such recorded instance of an artist receiving theological advice, although art historians believe the two groups routinely discussed such matters.
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This is perhaps the only recorded instance of a defamation lawsuit between 2 of the world’s top 5 most richest men. [Rediff] (tip Sidhu via email) In another twist to the feud between the Ambani brothers, the younger sibling Anil’s Group is understood to have filed a defamation suit for a whopping Rs 10,000 crore (Rs 100 billion) against elder Mukesh Ambani for remarks purported to have been made by him in an interview with the New York Times several weeks ago.
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This connection was of practical use; there is a recorded instance of a ship from the Baltic docking at Whitby and its captain finding orders awaiting him to proceed to Liverpool.
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The first recorded instance of medical tourism dates back thousands of years to when Greek pilgrims traveled from all over the Mediterranean to the small territory in the Saronic Gulf called Epidauria.
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If I Ran the Zoo, published in 1950, is the first recorded instance of the word? nerd?
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The first recorded instance of veiling for women is recorded in an Assyrian legal text from the 13th century BCE, which restricted its use to noble women and forbade prostitutes and common women from adopting it.
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This may be the first recorded instance of post – mortem identification by forensic odontology.
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The most common are: The first recorded instance of this opening was played by Emanuel Lasker in 1892.
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The last recorded instance of a dance named after an animal that did – or did not – sweep the nation was “The Bird’ ’, by Morris Day, released in 1984.
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As Andrea said,’ It does make you wonder if Hamlet had the first recorded instance of bi polar. ’
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In 1878, the first recorded instance of sequential photographs capturing and reproducing motion was Eadweard Muybridge’s series of a, which the British – born photographer produced in Palo Alto, California, using a row of still cameras.
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This marks the first recorded instance of any Greek general ever changing the standard depth of a hoplite unit.
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This is the first recorded instance of a phrase now in common use as “Leck mich am Arsch” (literally “lick me on my arse”, i. e.
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One modern member of the Lyon Court has described the attribution of such names to particular clans as sometimes being based upon nothing but imagination, and in others cases upon a single recorded instance of a surname.
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The practice dates back to the time the bridge was built, but the first recorded instance of someone diving off the bridge is from 1664.
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Since, however, the Christian proceeds based on evidence rather than presupposition, he might dismiss a recorded instance of a miracle, say, in the Odyssey, not because he knows it can *n’t be real because the event is so old, but simply because the attestation of that event is very weak.
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There is no recorded instance where Jesus disgraces, belittles, reproaches, or stereotypes a woman.
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Queried on 2013-05-26.