Example sentences of "which [vb past] the [num ord] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was transport which became the first post-ECSC target . |
| 2 | They were chased quite hard by no 2423 ( Treorchy ) Squadron , which became the first Welsh Wings Appeal National Trophy winner with the award of the Sir Gus Walker Trophy . |
| 3 | Mayne quickly established himself as the most exceptional officer in Stirling 's rapidly expanding SAS force , which became the 1st Special Air Service Regiment in September 1942 , with Stirling in command as lieutenant-colonel . |
| 4 | Had it succeeded , we would have been enriched by those labours which he afterwards devoted to his native country and which laid the first regular foundation for the science of veterinary medicine in Europe . |
| 5 | He built , to his own design , the steamship Robert Fulton , which made the first successful ocean voyage off the east coast of America , sailing from New York to Havana . |
| 6 | The new law constituted the first major revision of the quotas of legal immigration in 25 years and ranked in importance with the Quota Act of 1921 , which established the first numerical restrictions , and the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 . |
| 7 | It seems to have been Moscow 's need to counter a challenge from Beijing which prompted the next Soviet commitment to Cuba . |
| 8 | But it was a neat chaos of boxes piled on each other , cakes still in the tins they came in and hatboxes , one of which contained the last remaining ball of her long-ago childhood . |
| 9 | Under the terms of the deal , which marked the first direct trading contact between the two Korean states since the Korean War of 1950-53 , the North would supply 30,000 tonnes of anthracite and 11,000 tonnes of cement in exchange for the rice . |
| 10 | Perhaps the most dramatic shift in the pattern of work associated with new technology was that which characterised the first industrial revolution , as thousands moved to the newly forming industrial towns to work in the mills . |