Example sentences of "[noun] which [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | When John Lehmann published the second issue of Orpheus , an annual symposium of the arts which folded after the first two volumes , he employed Minton to design its dustjacket and small tail-pieces . |
| 2 | This was a bribe-riddled deal which resulted in the first imprisonment of a former cabinet official . |
| 3 | There was one last wave as they crossed the stone bridge before swinging away right , up the long gentle pull which led to the first draw . |
| 4 | The Special Discount is being continued on the same basis ( see page 2 ) and for those policies which qualify for the first time the increase is offset by approximately 6% . |
| 5 | Professional Studies in the early years of schooling is a course which extends throughout the first three years of the degree . |
| 6 | The teachers in our study did use strategies which came into the first category , but it was the second which was the key to understanding the all-pervasive quality of the collaboration and the self-sufficiency of the children which had so impressed us , allowing the teacher uninterrupted periods of time for working with individuals and groups . |
| 7 | Appointed principal of the Calcutta School of Art and keeper of the Government Art Gallery in 1896 , a post he held until 1906 , he was responsible for momentous changes in the art-school curriculum which led to the first Indian nationalist art movement , the Bengal School of Painting , under the artist Abanindranath Tagore . |
| 8 | There are three different rates of income tax : the new 20 per cent rate introduced in the 1992 Budget which applies to the first £2,000 of your taxable income ; the 25 per cent basic rate tax which applies to the next slice of taxable income between £2,000 and £23,700 ; and the 40 per cent higher rate tax which is levied on all taxable income over £23,700 . |
| 9 | It may be convenient for the last record to have a pointer which points to the first record in that list , in which case the list is a circular list , ring or chain ( see Figure 5.11 ) . |
| 10 | As it banked over the Cambrian Mountains , the reservoir which featured in the first party political broadcast sparkled far below . |
| 11 | How else can you claim the insurance cover the certificate offers on all defects which occur in the first two years , and structural defects up to ten years ? |
| 12 | key operated security bolts which mortice into the first closing leaf top and bottom |
| 13 | for double leaf hinged doors flush mounted bolts fitted top and bottom to the inner meeting edge of the first closing leaf or key operated security bolts which mortice into the first closing leaf top and bottom |
| 14 | In the second half it was pretty much a similar story , Leeds pressing from the start , then a Soton injury , then a lovely classy move which led to the first goal . |
| 15 | William Temple , while Archbishop of York , wrote in the York Quarterly , a journal which expired in the first year of the Second World War . |
| 16 | The ( Presidential ) apartments are as faded as the President ( a reference to the Prince 's dressing in sombre colours ) and the bronze chandeliers which date from the First Empire , in the same style as those of the English Embassy , make decent lighting impossible for there are too few lights in the chandeliers on the wall-brackets , and the candelabras . |
| 17 | The demands of Cold War politics prompted Aragon to go one step further and fabricate a fictional representation of Nizan 's treachery which had in the first instance itself been fabricated from Nizan " sown fictional productions . |
| 18 | It is a slim wooden rod which slips into the first ring of each curtain on the leading edge and , when not being used , hangs out of sight . |
| 19 | It used to be said that it was the attempt by the Seljuks to prevent Christians from reaching Jerusalem which led to the First Crusade . |
| 20 | The other two mammal species which bred for the first time were a pair of Geoffroy 's marmoset which had one youngster , and the cheetah female , Angie , who produced four cubs . |
| 21 | The poem which appears in the first volume is relatively simple in its advice . |
| 22 | Anyone who has seen or lived near an opencast coal mining site will understand and agree with a statement which appeared in the First Report of the House of Commons Energy Committee ( 1986–87 ) : ‘ We agree with the CPRE that ‘ opencast mining is one of the most environmentally destructive processes being carried out in the UK ’ . |
| 23 | The reason for the two limbs of this rule is purely technical to ensure that there is neither an exclusion of damages for breach of duty , nor an exclusion of any duty which exists in the first place . |
| 24 | The factors which come within the first category are those which must exist independently of the substance to be decided . |
| 25 | The talks which led to the first Strategic Arms Limitation Agreement ( SALT I ) were confined to the Russians and Americans . |
| 26 | So from the relationship that developed during that period we developed the collaboration which features in the first section of Passion . |
| 27 | Outside the marched in the aborigines had their fire of gum tree branches to purify the atmosphere very much like the flames of fire which appeared on the first whit Sunday . |
| 28 | An idea of the complexity of this process can be gauged from the events which led to the first successful casting of iron cannon in Sussex , at Buxted in 1543 . |
| 29 | They were themselves a witness to the success of the ecclesiastical promotion of lay education in the faith although , in their case , it stimulated a sectarianism which exploded in the first quarter of the fifteenth century as a threat to both the doctrinal and social establishment of authority . |
| 30 | There could be no thought of undermining the class which served as the first line of resistance to smouldering peasant insubordination . |