Example sentences of "[prep] which [pron] have first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alongside the new universities themselves , starting their degree courses from scratch and employing large numbers of sometimes rather dubiously qualified new lecturers , there was a parallel development in the polytechnics , many of them offering degree courses for the first time , and devising courses in subjects such as literature , languages , and philosophy that had nothing whatever to do with the technology-based courses for which they had first been invented . |
| 2 | British Moslem leaders claimed that the ban was an example of British double standards , since there had been no ban on Rushdie 's novel The Satanic Verses , for which he had first been condemned to death by the Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in February 1989 [ see pp. 36450-51 ; 37266 ] . |
| 3 | Her exit caused him more concern than if she had made it in the blaze of anger similar to that with which she had first confronted him . |
| 4 | Pushing the door open , she entered a dim chamber similar to the one in which they had first met Dubois . |
| 5 | Swathes of jasmine , loose from a prolifically flowering specimen on the edge of the house , occasionally fell over their railing , with their sweet scent , before Mrs Irving , clothed in her gardening gear of wellingtons and apron over the seated and threadbare tweed suit in which she had first enticed them in , came and bound these back . |
| 6 | The play in which she had first appeared was still running ; its clumsy comedy appealed to the audiences who came here . |
| 7 | It is also significant that the steam turbine and the pneumatic tyre were the only major British innovations of this period ; in the new industries she was a long way behind Germany and the United States and by 1914 was falling behind even in the older industries in which she had first established her supremacy . |
| 8 | She read it through and then sat for a long time on the white strips of the reclining chair in which she had first seen Signor Fixit . |
| 9 | He was trying , insanely , to preserve everyone in this family in just the state in which he had first encountered them , when they had given him that delightful sense of secure , harmonious , integrated living . |
| 10 | He was n't wearing the ridiculously inadequate suit in which he 'd first appeared in the village on that same spot . |
| 11 | Golden Girl had cleared the rocks on which she had first grounded , the wind slithering the lightened catamaran broadside across the sparse grasses sprouting from the leached sandy soil behind the ancient coastline . |
| 12 | It was still as gloomy as the day on which she had first seen it and she longed to transform it into a place of splendid elegance . |