Example sentences of "[art] first place " in BNC.

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1 Corfu , with its long sandy beaches , clear blue water and verdant mountain backdrop was one of the first places in Greece to be ‘ discovered ’ .
2 The first places of research are , therefore , the local authority archaeological officer , the central reference library and the county or city museum .
3 The amount of rain that was falling made this sure to be one of the first places to flood , and though the cubs were growing fast , they were still too small to cope with flood conditions .
4 The fertile lowlands are always the first places to be occupied and Java was no exception .
5 The vital role ( which contemporaries fully appreciated ) played by such relatively small ports as Le Crotoy , at the mouth of the river Somme , in the period 1420–50 , together with the fact that the ports of Dieppe and Harfleur were among the first places to be snatched from English control in 1435 ( leaving them with Cherbourg as the only port from which they could maintain regular links with England between 1435 and 1440 , a vital period in the military history of the occupation ) , shows how important the Burgundian connection was to both main protagonists as they struggled to acquire and maintain a measure of control over the sea .
6 I think your G P is maybe one of the first places to go but the trouble , I think , with people with eating problems is it 's very hard to explain what the problem is .
7 In fact , when a hotel or catering establishment decided to update its kitchen equipment , one of the first places that is often targeted for changes is the method of cooking .
8 Then overnight they redraft them because they did n't really matter in the first place .
9 Is that something that you feel may come from the ‘ hothouse ’ atmosphere of drama school in the first place ?
10 But I think I got into drama professionally in the first place by accident .
11 It was the licensing system and licensing controls , after all , which helped to foster Britain 's peculiar ‘ brewery tie ’ and concentrate pub ownership in the hands of the brewers in the first place ; and it was the same system which connived at and partly encouraged the modern contagion of open-plan pub designs .
12 While stainless is tough and harder to scratch in the first place , once it does become marked the scratch is permanent , unlike a mark on silver-plated cutlery which can be removed by re-plating .
13 ‘ Well , if he was repairing the machinery , it ca n't have been safe in the first place , can it ? ’
14 What on earth has it got to do with him in the first place ?
15 That 's why I left SIS in the first place . ’
16 A re-check should never be necessary , since this only implies the acceptance of a half-hearted check in the first place .
17 There is really very little excuse for the student wandering out of reach of the field if he has been taught well in the first place .
18 They promote health and help prevent illness in the first place .
19 Sir Kenneth Newman , to whom the report was presented , candidly admitted he would not have commissioned it in the first place ( it was commissioned by his predecessor , Sir David McNee ) , while the official Police Federation magazine ( Police , December 1983 ) concluded in an editorial :
20 Like many graduates stimulated by their experiences , he discovered that although he had been of sufficient calibre to acquire the offer of the scholarship in the first place , he now faced the inevitable service obsession with a rejection of academic prowess in preference for ‘ practical skills in the real world ’ ( ibid. 157 ) :
21 Marina had that fabulous Gauloise and gin thee-ay-tah voice : which is why Jay had got to know her in the first place .
22 Thought you were so damn smart getting it in the first place , and drink has blurred you so much you 've blown it .
23 And I would not have made the war in the first place . ’
24 by no means the first place to be discovered , it soon established itself as a maritime port of central importance to Canada 's growing economy ; though it commenced as a Jesuit mission-place , which explains its ethereal qualities .
25 Having your real job abolished must mean there was no real job in the first place .
26 I earned it in the first place , so strictly speaking it 's still mine ; but you learn not to say some things in marriage .
27 But why the need for the increase in the marioc subsidy in the first place ? ’
28 There is , however , a more fundamental reason why an attempt to perceive a structure within a given set of phenomena may fail ; it may be that there actually is no structure there to be perceived in the first place .
29 This contrasts with developmental dyslexia which is an impairment , possibly congenital , in learning to read in the first place .
30 Following a request from an Age Concern organisation , we will also be producing short guidelines on why older people should vote in the first place .
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