Example sentences of "which [vb base] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the profusion of flowers which make the first impression on visitors although fruit and vegetables are grown as well . |
| 2 | Quite often it is the clearing banks which make the first move by announcing a base rate change before the Bank alters its intervention rates . |
| 3 | The second machine takes a second look at the beans which pass the first scan using ultraviolet light . |
| 4 | Independent conditional statements are thus different in kind from those dependent nomic conditional statements or simply dependent conditionals , which state the first four of our causal relations . |
| 5 | To illustrate Jakobson 's approach to these texts , let us take his analysis ( with L.G. Jones ) of Shakespeare 's Sonnet cxxix , ‘ Th'Expence of Spirit ’ ( 1970 ) : The analysis considers in turn the following relationships of equivalence and contrast ( which evidently depends on and emphasizes equivalence ) in the poem ( the spelling and punctuation follow the first edition ) : ( 1 ) those which oppose the first seven lines to the last seven ; ( 2 ) those which are constant features of the text as a whole ; ( 3 ) those which oppose strophes I and III to II and IV ; ( 4 ) those which oppose strophes I and IV to ( I and III ( the outer and the inner ) ; ( 5 ) those which oppose strophes I and II to III and IV ; ( 6 ) those which oppose the final couplet to the rest of the poem ; and ( 7 ) those which oppose the middle couplet ( lines 7 and 8 ) to the rest of the poem . |
| 6 | If the characteristically echinoderm skeleton of calcareous ‘ stereom ’ was acquired before the equally distinctive water-vascular system , then the aberrant cornutes ( which have the first , but not the second ) are a very early branch of echinoderms . |
| 7 | There is no mistaking the physical menace in the soft but grinding discord which announces Balstrode 's " Look , the storm cone " , or the thrill of fear in his fugue theme " Now the flood tide " [ 7 ] , with its opening minor second , which is picked up by the entire chorus and worked into one of those overwhelming Verdian ensembles which climax the first scene of each act . |