Example sentences of "which [was/were] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hotels which were in the first days of making order , and factories which came from the old Factories Act . |
| 2 | The first two rounds of voting — in north Lebanon and the Bekaa on Aug. 23 , and in Beirut and Mount Lebanon on Aug. 30 — produced some wins for Hezbollah , an Islamic group aligned with Syrian policy-making which was for the first time participating in elections as a parliamentary party . |
| 3 | The fire brigade which was at the first blaze about 100 yards away extinguished the second fire in a short time . |
| 4 | Cannabis comes from hemp , which was among the first plants to be domesticated , especially in parts of South-East Asia , where it is a valuable source of fibre for making rope and twine . |
| 5 | To Dr Porter , " in a multitude of small ways , the poor law served as a thorough-going system of support " which was in the first half of the eigh-teenth century " quite generous in their paternalist supplements to domestic income " . |