Example sentences of "which [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Special Discount is being continued on the same basis ( see page 2 ) and for those policies which qualify for the first time the increase is offset by approximately 6% . |
| 2 | The Front comprised political and religious organizations and parties based in Iraq and Jordan , including the Moslem Brotherhood , which agreed for the first time to co-operate without preconditions with nationalist and non-religious groups . |
| 3 | For the clubs , as ever , the issue is money , most of which goes to the First Division . |
| 4 | It is at this point that the second contradiction — between working class and bourgeoisie — which differs from the first in expressing an opposition of interests rather than an incompatibility of structures , assumes great importance . |
| 5 | It may be convenient for the last record to have a pointer which points to the first record in that list , in which case the list is a circular list , ring or chain ( see Figure 5.11 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It used to be said that it was the attempt by the Seljuks to prevent Christians from reaching Jerusalem which led to the First Crusade . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There was one last wave as they crossed the stone bridge before swinging away right , up the long gentle pull which led to the first draw . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The talks which led to the first Strategic Arms Limitation Agreement ( SALT I ) were confined to the Russians and Americans . |
| 12 | In the second half it was pretty much a similar story , Leeds pressing from the start , then a Soton injury , then a lovely classy move which led to the first goal . |
| 13 | The Company 's hint was taken , and on 6th July the Charity Commissioners approved the new Board , which met for the first time twelve days later and agreed to advertise for a Headmaster who — after all the fuss and contrary to what may have been expected — was required to be an Anglican clergyman ! |
| 14 | Similarly it seems unlikely that the reader will bother to construct a three-dimensional , photographic representation of ‘ the baby ’ which cries in the first sentence and which is picked up in the second sentence . |
| 15 | The teachers in our study did use strategies which came into the first category , but it was the second which was the key to understanding the all-pervasive quality of the collaboration and the self-sufficiency of the children which had so impressed us , allowing the teacher uninterrupted periods of time for working with individuals and groups . |
| 16 | Atkins felt that Peterborough 's first goal , which came in the first minute of the second-half , should have been disallowed because Cambridge goalkeeper John Vaughan had the ball kicked out of his hands by sliding Peterborough midfielder John McGlashan . |
| 17 | The committee , which meets for the first time next Tuesday , is expected to end its deliberations in January . |
| 18 | So from the relationship that developed during that period we developed the collaboration which features in the first section of Passion . |
| 19 | They were themselves a witness to the success of the ecclesiastical promotion of lay education in the faith although , in their case , it stimulated a sectarianism which exploded in the first quarter of the fifteenth century as a threat to both the doctrinal and social establishment of authority . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | The reason for the two limbs of this rule is purely technical to ensure that there is neither an exclusion of damages for breach of duty , nor an exclusion of any duty which exists in the first place . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | There could be no thought of undermining the class which served as the first line of resistance to smouldering peasant insubordination . |
| 24 | The other two mammal species which bred for the first time were a pair of Geoffroy 's marmoset which had one youngster , and the cheetah female , Angie , who produced four cubs . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Discussions on these and other subjects , which started at the first consultation two years ago , will be developed further next August at the Third Indonesian Consultation on Theology and Communication . |
| 27 | Project number 1 on the first list , which derived from the first reconnaissance , was to ‘ Develop a worldwide communications system ’ For various reasons the project was not taken forward but Save The Children have continued to take the view that good communications , within the Field and between Field and HQ , is of the highest priority . |
| 28 | There are three different rates of income tax : the new 20 per cent rate introduced in the 1992 Budget which applies to the first £2,000 of your taxable income ; the 25 per cent basic rate tax which applies to the next slice of taxable income between £2,000 and £23,700 ; and the 40 per cent higher rate tax which is levied on all taxable income over £23,700 . |
| 29 | The poem which appears in the first volume is relatively simple in its advice . |
| 30 | HE left NME to create the equally successful Smash Hits and then decided to go it alone with £4,000 from his building society account — all of which went into the first edition of The Face . |