Example sentences of "[noun pl] which [verb] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , as Maxine Berg has well explained , a feature of those same closing decades which saw the first cotton mills was the spread of such manufactures . |
| 2 | Quite often it is the clearing banks which make the first move by announcing a base rate change before the Bank alters its intervention rates . |
| 3 | ‘ I was always afraid of things which worked the first time . ’ |
| 4 | There is no mistaking the physical menace in the soft but grinding discord which announces Balstrode 's " Look , the storm cone " , or the thrill of fear in his fugue theme " Now the flood tide " [ 7 ] , with its opening minor second , which is picked up by the entire chorus and worked into one of those overwhelming Verdian ensembles which climax the first scene of each act . |
| 5 | But it was the failure of the Windscale Inquiry to represent adequately the protesters ' arguments which encouraged the first example of direct action in this country . |
| 6 | It is the profusion of flowers which make the first impression on visitors although fruit and vegetables are grown as well . |
| 7 | The second machine takes a second look at the beans which pass the first scan using ultraviolet light . |
| 8 | Yes , these are the very same thoughts which marred the first tour . |
| 9 | Yorick had discarded the strong rhythms , the simple melodies and the accessible lyrics which characterized the first phase of his career . |