Example sentences of "which [verb] [adv] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three hundred and forty years later , in 1918 , the National Education Association and the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools , in the United States , approved the so-called Certain Standards ( named after the chairman of its working party , Carl Caspar Certain ) which laid down the first standard specifications for a secondary school library . |
| 2 | Which brings us to the blockbusting Italy issue arranged by Morgan Stanley , the US investment bank which put together the first US-style issue in Europe with an offering for New Zealand in August . |
| 3 | How did the implementers of the monetarist nonsense which brought about the first recession manage to produce a second recession ? |
| 4 | No one can enumerate the conditions and events which issued ill the first sighting of Halley 's Comet or the weights of man-made objects in the Northern Hemisphere in the nineteenth century , but it would be bizarre to say that no clear ideas attach to those definite descriptions . |
| 5 | Similarly , the hero of The Prelude is taken from the ‘ educational processes ’ of the Lake District , Cambridge and so on , which take up the first half of the poem , and engages with society and history in the conflicts of the French Revolution ; the Revolution is not to be taken as a purely fortuitous occurrence , but the main event of the time , that which separates off the Modern Age from all that had gone before . |
| 6 | The Burnham Committee , which had since the First World War been responsible for determining the salaries of teachers , now produced a unified scheme , making no formal distinction between the remuneration of teachers in Primary , secondary modern , or grammar schools . |
| 7 | One of the " movements " in the suite which makes up the first act of Wozzeck is , it may be recalled , a passacaglia , that is , a set of variations on a ground bass . |