Example sentences of "which [verb] [prep] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The talks which led to the first Strategic Arms Limitation Agreement ( SALT I ) were confined to the Russians and Americans . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It has reached that level in half a century , for 50 years ago today the experiment was begun which led to the first recorded observation of this polymer . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Still adhering to the old fashioned measurement by piece ( a cask which in Champagne contains 205 litres ) , the 2,666 litres of must , as it comes through the pressing operation , is separated into three portions in order of quality : the cuvée , which amounts to the first ten pieces ( 2,050 litres ) ; the premiere taille , which includes the next two pieces ( 410 litres ) ; and the deuxième taille , or the last piece ( 205 litres ) . |
| 6 | The causes of this are not entirely clear , but were probably a combination of the increasing costs of warfare ( as the empire came under severe pressure from the barbarians across the Rhine and Danube , and from the Persians in the east ) and of the exhaustion of the Roman mines in Spain , which seem for the first two centuries AD to have provided an important contribution to the difference between Rome 's income ( taxes ) and expenditure ( especially on war ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | key operated security bolts which mortice into the first closing leaf top and bottom |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | Professional Studies in the early years of schooling is a course which extends throughout the first three years of the degree . |
| 11 | When they are known , then unc which follow from the first two of Equations ( 1 ) . |
| 12 | 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 ? |