Example sentences of "which [noun] [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | On CD at present there are discs by Haitink , Järvi and Maxim Shostakovich among others , all of them sonically impressive but not always possessed of the brooding tension which Rostropovich brings to the first movement . |
| 2 | In deciding which combinations to take after the first year of study , applicants should be aware of the entry requirements for both subjects . |
| 3 | It is , then , unsafe to generalise as Lyons does that : ‘ until modern methods of sound recording were developed ( a ) the inscription of language utterances on durable materials provided a more reliable means of transmission than memory and oral reproduction ’ and ( b ) that this was ‘ recognised to be so in the western tradition in which literacy developed in the first instance for this purpose ’ ( 1982 ) . |
| 4 | According to a report in the Neue Zurcher Zeitung of Jan. 10 , 1990 , the European Commission of Human Rights , to which plaintiffs turned in the first instance , had registered 1,445 cases brought by individuals or private organizations in 1989 ( a 40 per cent increase on the previous year ) . |
| 5 | The Second Symphony is still widely known as the ‘ Little Ruissian ’ because of the folk songs from that area which Tchaikovsky uses in the first and fourth movements . |